Interesting links for linguists

(Compiled from different web pages and directories)

 


General Linguistic Resources

Blackwell Linguistics Resource Center, by Paul Hagstrom (A good place to start from) The LINGUIST List  A mirror site. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Linguistics (Maintained by the LINGUIST List) SIL Linguistic Resources on the Internet The Yamada WWW Language Guide Language and Linguistic Links. Yahoo-Linguistics and Human Languages Language and Linguistics Page, por John Laver, University of Michigan Havelock's Linguistics Information and Links Metaindex of Linguistic Resources Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in the World Wide Web, por Rick Wojcik Linguistic Materials on the Web, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester Linguistics-related Web Sites, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Illinois LATTICE Language Links Linguistics Resources, Dep. of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University Linguistic Data Consortium Library Electronic Text Resource Center (Software gratuito y textos electrónicos) Resources Linguistiques Linguistik Homepage Linguistics LangLinks

Linguistics and English Language Departments

Linguistic Programs-The Linguist List (A complete listing of linguistics departments around the world) English Philology Departments in Spain (Selection made by the department of English philology- U of Santiago) Linguistics departments, University of Rochester, USA SIL Linguistics Resources: Universities and other academic sites Linguistics WWW Servers at Colleges and Universities, Brown University, USA Rick Wojcik's list of academic departments and organizations

Bibliographies

LINGUISTIC ABSTRACTS ONLINE (Online search for articles free of charge) UMI -Dissertation Abstracts International (Search Page) Bibliographical Sources (The Linguist List) Carl Uncover (To search free of charge for 7,000,000 scholarly articles in journals with author or keyword searches) Linguistics and Language Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies (U of Houston) Contrastive Linguistics A selective bibliography Discourse (An online bibliography of sources on discourse markers). Online-Bibliography: Phonetics / Speech-Technology (Searchable- about 7500 entries)

Conferences

Conference Schedule for Linguists, Translators, and Interpreters (Specific upcoming conferences) Conference Schedules-University of Queensland Conferences and Institutes-The LINGUIST LIST (A listing of the conferences announced in the LINGUIST list) List of conferences, seminars, and workshops maintained by the Centre for Applied Language Studies, Finland Language Conferences, Exhibitions and Events (Language conferences and exhibitions in Europe) Cascadilla Press Conference Proceedings (It allows one to search for conference proceedings) Calendar of Language and Liguistics Conferences (U of Hull, UK)

Mailing Lists

Electronic Mailing Lists in Linguistics (Acces to different mailing lilsts dealing with the study of language) Linguistics Mailing Lists- LINGUIST List Comrie and Everson's List of Individual Language List (It also gives information on how to subscribe to lists) Organizations and Mailing lists in TESL/TEFL

Linguistic Organizations

Linguistic Associations-LINGUIST (A list of linguistics organizations) Linguistics-Related Organizations-University of. Rochester. Organizations, Associations, and Research Groups-Universidade da Coruña, Galicia ESSE: European Society for the Study of English

Linguistics Journals

Linguist List: Journals SIL's journals site Journals & Newsletters on the Web-University of Rochester (Links to both electronic and printed journals) Journals, Newsletters, and Working Papers-Universidade da Coruña, Galicia Print journals with web pages-Blackwell Linguistics Resource Center

Dictionaries

Robert Beard's list of online dictionaries (Searchable. Linked to 400 dictionaries of over 130 languages) WWWebster Dictionary - Search screen (Merrian Webster Dictionary) ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form (Searchable 1991 edition) Oxford Concise Dictionary -- 45.898 definitions (Searchable dictionary) Webster Dictionary -113.593 definitions (Searchable Dictionary) OneLook Dictionaries - Searchable index of over 100 WWWt-accessible online dictionaries/glossaries The Online Slang Dictionary Cobuild Home Page WordNet: An On-Line English Lexical Reference System Dictionaries EURODICAUTOM (Translates words or abbreviations from/into 10 EU languages)

Applied Linguistics

WWW Virtual library: Applied Linguistics British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) Center for Applied Linguistics, USA Centre for Applied Language Studies, Finland

Cognitive and Computational Linguistics

Cognitive Sciences International Cognitive Linguistics Association Metaphor and Cognitive Semantics Blending and Concpetual Integration Cognitive Mailing List

NLP/CL UNIVERSE (WWW material related to computational linguistics and natural-language processing) Natural Language Computing Home Page CETH- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Survey of the State of the Art of Human Language Technology A bibliography of Computational Linguistics, compiled at UCREL

Corpus Linguistics

The Corpus Linguistics Page, Michael Barlow (List of available corpora organized by language) ICAME Home Page and Useful Corpus Resources on the Web-ICAME Bengt Altenberg's ICAME bibliography of corpus linguistics: txt format (before 1989), (1990-1998) UCREL-University of Lancaster (Information on corpus tools & annotation, a corpus WWW course, and links) Corpus Linguistics Page (A collection of links, from University of Birmingham, UK A bibliography of Corpus Linguistics, by Michael Barlow The LINGUIST List: Software Concordances and Corpora Tutorial-UCREL-University of Lancaster Web based Course in Corpus Linguistics-University of Lancaster Norwegian Computing Center for the Humanities (ICAME, Bergen) The Archive of the Corpora Mailing-List International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) Natural Language Computing Home Page English Language Corpora and Corpus resources-Univ. of Stuttgart International Quantitative Linguistics Association (IQLA)

 

Corpora

1) Synchronic Corpora British National Corpus (General information about the BNC) British National Corpus (It allows restricted on-line searches if you are not registered) ICAME Corpus Collection (Brown, LOB, Helsinki...) and New ICAME Corpus Collection CD-ROM International Corpus of English (Survey of English Usage)-UCL, London The Bank of English and COBUILD Birmingham Corpus Child Language Data Exchange System-CHILDES (Child language transcript data) The Corpus of Written British Creole, Lancaster University, UK COLT-Corpus of London Teenage English-University of Bergen (Pilot version freely searchable with WebTact) Corpus of Spoken, Professional American-English The CRATER Corpus or International Telecommunications Union (It can be searched on-line) ELRA (A repository for corpora developed through the EU initiative) European Network in Language and Speech (ELSNET) European Language Resources Association (ELRA) Experimental Corpus Query System-U of Stuttgart (Queries can be evaluated on a 2 m. word subcorpus of the Penn Treebank) The Linguistic Data Consortium (A Colection of American English corpora such as TIMIT) MARSEC:The Machine Readable Spoken English Corpus-University of Reading SUSANNE CORPUS (It can be freely downloaded) The CHRISTINE Project (SUSANNE Meets Spoken English) Timit Corpus The TRAINS Spoken Dialogue Corpus (Task-oriented spoken dialogs)
 
2) Diachronic Corpora The Corpus of Early English Correspondence (U of Helsinki) Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English The Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts The Complete Corpus of Old English Early Modern English Dictionaries Database Search Utility

 

Electronic Texts (OE/ME/EModE/ModE)

The New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors (This page tells you where the texts are in the WWW) The Book Stack (an index to on-line books) Gutenberg Project (Thousands of feely downloadble electronic texts: go to E-text Listings) The On-line Books Page (Over 5000 freely downloadable titles: Middle English, Shakespeare, Joyce, etc) The Oxford Text Archive (Lots of (semi-)freely available texts)  Renascence Editions: Works Printed in English, 1477-1799. Early Modern Literary Studies (Electronic Versions of 15th, 16th & 17th c texts from the Internet) The Michigan Early Modern English Materials (Searchable corpus) Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet Labyrinth Library Middle English Bookcase (ME electronic texts) Luminarium (Anthology of Medieval, Renaissance and 17th century electronic texts) The Online Library of Electronic Texts -U of Virginia Middle English Collection - at the Electronic Text Center, U of Virginia (A collection of ME e-texts) DSCRIPTORIUM (A site devoted to collection and distribution (on the web) of manuscripts) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Files can be read and downloaded by ftp) Humanities Text Initiative (Searchable electronic Texts, some not freely available) Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature (A great deal of Englsih Literature resources and free texts) The Camelot Project (texts, backgound data on the medieval Arthurian legends) Renaissance Electronic Texts CETH (An archive of ASCII & SGML texts) Time U.S Government Publications Also check our selection in http://www.usc.es/ia303/litera.htm#etexts

General Linguistics

Introduction to Linguistics: Virtual Lecture Hall, Catherine N. Ball, Georgetown University, USA Linguistics 105 - Sounds & Words (On-line interactive syllabus), Robert Beard Linguistics 110 - Sentences & Meaning (On-line interactive syllabus), Robert Beard

History of the English Language

1. Old English and Middle English History of the English Language (Page of the HEL-L discussion group. OE and ME resources). Internet Links for "A History of the English Language" Course (U de Jaen-Excellent links) Old English pages -Georgetown U (Old English resources, including links to corpora, fonts, software) Old and Medieval English Direct link to this period at the Voice of the Shuttle. Hwæt! Old English in Context (Resources for the study of Old English and Anglo-Saxon England) Middle English Works (Electronic texts from ME; a fully searchable corpus; see the bibliography) The Medieval Labyrinth (Texts & other sources for literature, language, history & culture of the period) On-Line Text Materials for Medieval Studies (Teaching materials for Medieval Studies and links) Beginners' Guide to Offline Language Materials: Pre-Modern English - substantial bibliography of OE and ME English and its History (A quick tour of the histroy of the English language) The Online Medieval and Classical Library (A collection of literary works of Classical & Medieval civilization) Germanic Languages

2. Early Modern English The Renaissance on the WWW (Page maintained by the LAMPETER Corpus List: Info & Links on EModE) Early Modern England Source (Mainly history, but also other resources: e-texts, conferences, bibliographies) The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database (EMEDD) Modern English to Old English Vocabulary Proper Elizabethan Accents

Languages in the World and Typological Linguistics

Ethnologue Database (a catalogue to all the languages in the world) Universal Survey of Languages (another more in-depth survey of languages) The LINGUIST List: Language & Language Family Information Yamada Language Guides Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) SFL Language Typology Indo-European Home Page Languages of the World, Ari Sadarjoen Romance Languages Resource Page, University of Chicago, USA Contrastive Linguistics and Language Typology research network (CoLLate) 123 world languages

Morphology A Web of Morphology Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology (LMBM)

Phonetics and Phonology Phonetics page-Speech on the Web (A complete list of links to phonetics) Resources for Studying Human Speech (Useful links and software & interactive phonetics) UCL Department of Phonetics and Linguistics The International Phonetics Association WWW Information for Speech/Acoustics Research Institute of Phonetic Sciences, Amsterdam Introduction to the IPA, University of Lausanne Fonetiks Phonetics: An on-line Course- Stirling University Spectrogram Reading Speech/Acoustic related WWW information list Fonts Archive for PC's-Yamada Language Center. It includes phonetic fonts IPA Fonts for Windows and Mac, Henry Rogers, Canada SAMPA - computer readable phonetic alphabet, John Wells, UCL, UK phonGIF: Phonetic Characters on the Web U of Michigan Software - Phonetics Guidelines for the representation of IPA in ASCII, by David Prager Branner Computational Phonology (Edinburgh)

Pragmatics

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), Belgium and their Hot Pages Bibliography for Rhetoric and Professional Communication

Semantics, Semiotics and Lexicography

Semantics, in Principia Cybernetica Web International Society for General Semantics (IGSG), USA The Consortium for Lexical Research Sites of Significance for Semiotics PHRASEOLOGY A Catalogue of Multilingual Resources on the Internet (including idimos, proverbs, slang, etc) Collocations Homepage

Sociolinguistics and Language Variation Introduction to Linguistics: Sociolinguistics Resources Sociolinguistics & Cross-Cultural Pragmatics Bibliography on linguistic variation and change, Abdelhak Razky  Project, Universidade Federal do Pará, Brasil Code-Switching in Conversation Bibliographies and material on Computer-Mediated Communication, by Benjamin Bärmann American Dialect Society William Labov Home Page CA (The Creolist Archives) Georgetown Lectures: Sociolinguistics Gender and Language course syllabi Some links to language and culture from Aaron A. Fox Marcadores discursivos, Megan Duque Estrada (A bibliography on discourse markers) Textos sobre Sociologia del Llenguatge, by Guillem Calaforra Unpublished papers by Richard Hudson "Variation as an Interactional Resource" (for a Language- Culture symposium), by Lesley Milroy

Syntax and Grammar

 Systemic Functional Linguistics information (A theory overview and links to relevant resources) Systemic Linguistics web site, by Tony Berber Sardinha SYNTHINAR: The Syntactic Theory Seminar (A series of small lectures covering basics of Chomskyan syntax) Lexicon of Linguistics (Especially good for terms from GB) HPSG homepages at Ohio State University and Stanford (Theory overview, conferences, links to papers, etc) HPSG Literature The SOAS HPSG Ellipsis Project Functional Grammar Information System Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) AGFL (Affix Grammars over a Finite Lattice) Word Grammar Link Grammar The Noam Chomsky Archive Syntext--the SGML Grammar Grapher Optimality Theory, Rutgers Optimality Archive. A Web of On-line Grammars (Links with on-line grammars different languages) An Elementary Grammar of English (Organized by topic) Interactive Syntax Tutor, by Ann von Klopp and Chris Dalton, University of Wales, Bangor, UK

TEFL

Foreign Language Teaching Forum TESL page-Linguistic Funland (TESL and TEFL resources) Linguistics Resources for Language Teachers (Links to the relevant sites) Coordinación de Inglés de la Universidad de Jaén (Information and links to TEFL, language materials, etc) 300 Webpages for Students and Teachers of English- Universidad de Jaén.  Tesol Spain TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links (The Internet TESL Journal -over 2,900 Links) English as a Second Language Home Page (A starting point for ESL learners & links ESL sites) Dave's ESL Cafe (A site containing a variety of English learning activities) EFL Websites and EFL Web English and Foreign Languages Links Yahoo- Links to Language Education:English as a Second Language The Virtual English Language Center VOLTERRE-FR- Email Discussion Lists for Teachers of English VOLTERRE-FR-Professional Organizations for Teachers of English CELIA (An archive for CALL software. Good for TEFL) The Virtual CALL Library (Pointers to shareware and freeware for CALL around the Internet) Computer Assisted Language Learning ELT Resources, Lancaster University, UK English as a second language (ESL) programs around the world Language Net (Authentic texts and interactive exercises for students to practise their English Theories in Learning & Instruction (Brief summarizes of 50 major theories of learning and instruction)

Translation / Traducción (A collection of useful links and resources for translators) LANTRA-L Home Page, Home page of LANTRA-L mailing-list for interpreters and translators The Translator's Home Companion (Source of information for the professional translator) Internet Resources for Translators-Michelle de Raaij (dictionaries, schools, news sources...) Language Dictionaries and Translators Acquarius Home Paage (A list of translators on the Internet)

 

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