Current Focus at Princeton:

The major interests of the core faculty in the Program (those teaching LIN courses) are generative grammar (syntax, morphology, semantics and phonology), including comparative grammar, language acquisition, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and historical linguistics (including the origins and nature of English vocabulary, Hittite morphology, Tocharian phonology, and Sanskrit). The interests of both core and affiliated faculty include the philosophy and psychology of language, biolinguistics (including neurolinguistics and the evolution of language).
 

I. General Collecting Guidelines

A. General Purpose

To support teaching and research through the doctoral level and beyond in those subdivisions of Linguistics listed below, Section II, collecting level 4; to support teaching at all levels in those subdivisions of Linguistics listed below, Section II, collecting level 2. Library resources in these areas are also of interest to students and faculty in the language departments (including English); in anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology; and to a lesser extent in electrical engineering and computer science.

B. Subjects excluded

All subjects not related to linguistics.

C. Overlap with other collections or subjects: division of responsibility

It is assumed that works dealing with the linguistics of a specific language or language family will be ordered by the appropriate selectors: Classics (for Greek and Latin); Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections (for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean); English; German, (for German and, to a lesser extent, Dutch, Faroese, Frisian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish) and for the older Germanic languages, especially Gothic; and for proto-Germanic; Near Eastern Studies (for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and ancient Near Eastern languages); Romance Languages and Literatures (for French, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Catalan, Old Provencal, Romanian, Spanish); Slavic Languages and Literatures (for Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovakian, Ukranian). The selector for Linguistics will order, at collecting level 4, works dealing with Vedic Sanskrit and, at collecting level 2, languages not taught at Princeton, e.g. Albanian, Finish, Estonian, Tagalog, etc.

It is further assumed that works dealing with the application of linguistics to related disciplines will be ordered by the appropriate selectors: Anthropology (for anthropological linguistics and ethno-linguistics); Philosophy (for philosophy of language); Psychology (for psycholinguistics and language acquisition); Computer Science and Mathematics (for mathematical and computational linguistics). However, Linguistics will order works dealing with sociolinguistics since this area is not covered by Sociology.

The selector for Linguistics will order dictionaries and grammar books for all languages not covered under another collection development statement, for example, African and Native-American languages.

D. Languages collected and excluded

Though no languages are excluded in principle, emphasis is placed on works written in English, French, Italian, and German.

E. Geographical limits

None.

F. Chronological limits

Emphasis is placed on current developments, except for historical linguistics and the history of languages and linguistics.

G. Retrospective acquisition

A modest retrospective collecting has already begun for treatises on the Celtic and Ancient Egyptian languages.

H. Types of material collected and excluded

Collected:  monographs; serials; dialect atlases; dictionaries; electronic resources.

Excluded:  language textbooks unless they provide information on languages not commonly studied.

I. Agreements/arrangements with other libraries

None.

J. Other factors

Linguistics participates in various approval plans, but many important treatises on linguistics, for example, those published in the Benelux countries (Mouton/De Gruyter, Peeters, Kluwer) and India, Australia, and New Zealand have to be firm ordered.

II. Subjects and Collecting Levels

Semantics 4
Syntax 4
Generative grammar 4
Phonology 4
Historical and comparative linguistics 4
History of languages and linguistics 4
Linguistics and literary theory 4
Language 4acquisition 4
Biolinguistics (Psychology and Biology) 4
Psycholinguistics (Psychology) 4
Sanskrit and Indo-European 4
Sociolinguistics 4
Linguistics and language teaching (also Psychology) 4
Mathematical/computational linguistics (Mathematics and Engineering) 4
Philosohy of language  (Philosophy) 4
Psychology of language (Psychology) 4
General phonetics 3
Dialectology 2
Lexicology 2
Experimental phonetics 2
Accoustic phonetics 2
Linguistics and the teaching of English as a second language 3
Languages not taught at Princeton 2

Last updated: December 2004
URL: CDling1.htm