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Linguistics & Cognitive Science

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To find books within the Claremont Colleges Library, it's best to start with Library Search. Browsing the shelf by call number works best after having already identified a specific title. Materials not owned by Claremont can be requested through Resource Sharing/ILL.

Call Number Ranges for Language Families

Most of the books in these classifications are located in the Multitier stacks.

PA                Classical languages (Latin and Greek)
PB                Celtic languages
PC                Romance languages
PD                Germanic and Scandinavian languages
PE                English language
PF                West Germanic languages
PG                Slavic and Baltic languages

PH                Finno-Ugric
PJ                 Arabic, Hebrew, Semitic, East Asian
PK                Indo-Iranian languages and literatures
PL                Turkic, and Asian languages
PM                Native American languages

Browse Linguistics Call Number Ranges

P1-85                      General
P87-96                    Communication. Mass media
P94.7                       Interpersonal communication
P95-95.6                 Oral communication. Speech
P98-98.5                 Computational linguistics. Natural language processing
P99-99.4                 Semiotics
P99.5-99.6              Nonverbal communication
P101-410                Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P118-118.7             Language acquisition
P121-149                Science of language
P201-299                Comparative grammar
P215-240                Phonetics and Phonology
P241-290                Morphology
P291-298                Syntax
P299                        Other
P301-301.5             Style. Composition. Rhetoric
P302-302.87            Discourse analysis
P304-305                 Vocabulary
P306-310                 Translating and interpreting
P321-324.5              Etymology
P325-325.5              Semantics
P326-326.5              Lexicology
P327-327.5              Lexicography
P331-365.5              Comparative lexicography
P367                         Dialectology
P368                         Standard language
P375-381                 Linguistic geography
P501-675                 Indo-European philology
P901-1091               Extinct ancient and medieval languages