This handbook describes existing sources of information in linguistics and certain related fields. It is intended principally for the linguistics student at the upper undergraduate or graduate level. The handbook attempts to provide coverage of all major traditional fields in linguistics (e.g., descriptive, historical, phonology, grammar, dialectology, semantics, applied linguistics); of most of the major theoretical approaches to linguistic analysis (e.g., Prague school, tagmemics, transformational analysis); and of major linguistics-related disciplines (e.g., anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics). Coverage of languages and language groups has been limited to language families or areal groupings, and only major journals are included. Most individual articles in journals and serials are excluded, except for important sources of bibliography or history. Most materials are in English, although consideration has been given to material in French, German, Russian and some other languages. Arrangement is by subject throughout, with the following form divisions: bibliographies; periodicals; monographs; congresses and proceedings; maps, atlases, handbooks; histories and surveys; and theory and method. An author index is included. (CHK) history.