found: Britannica online, March 26, 2010:article on linguistics (Dialect atlases are compiled on the basis of investigations of the dialects of a large number of places; a questionnaire provides uniform data; the first large-scale enterprise in linguistic geography was the preparation of the German linguistic atlas, which was begun in the 1880s; the famous French linguistic atlas of Jules Gilliéron and Edmond Edmont was published in fascicles from 1902 to 1912 and furnished both a strong stimulus and the basic model for work on linguistic atlases elsewhere in the world; one of the most significant contributions is the linguistic atlas of Italy and southern Switzerland by Karl Jaberg and Jakob Jud; it appeared from 1928 to 1940; dialects of virtually all European languages have been treated in linguistic geography studies; in some countries, data are still being collected and classified and maps are being drawn, but in others a second generation of atlases is already under way)
found: Dictionary of sociolinguistics, 2004 via Credo reference, March 26, 2010:linguistic atlas (Collections of maps which plot the geographical distribution of individual linguistic items (e.g. pronunciation features, grammatical inflections, words), and the location of ISOGLOSSes, or languages in multilingual societies)
notfound: Cartographic materials, 2002, 2005 update;Form/genre for cartographic materials [draft of LC working group], 1996.
