Linguistics

Annotated bibliography of tense, verbal aspect, aktionsart and related areas.

The use of corpora in the study of Old English.

Chris Manning's annotated list of resources in the field of statistical natural language processing and the closely related corpus-based computational linguistics. Corpora, treebanks, models, tools/systems, literature, courses and other resources.

A society dedicated to the collection and standardization of wordnets, corpora, and other basic language processing tools. List of current and pending wordnets.

A subgroup of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) which aims to provide a forum for the discussion, dissemination and archiving of research topics and results in the field of text generation.

Estuary English resource page includes many links to research and articles about a variety of English spoken in the areas around the river Thames and its estuary.

"Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millennia.

Historical linguistics and etymology.

Eleven-page paper describing how the early Sumerians invented their language, with a complete lexicon of the first words in their language.

Revelations concerning the English language and the Bible.

Research projects on computational linguistics, with an extensive bibliography. Some listings are linked to full-text downloadable article files. The project is managed by a team at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

Annual publication of Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Subscription rates and table of contents.

Focuses on scientific reports in areas such as (neuro)linguistic and cognitive models. Editorial board, subscription information, special issues and guidelines.

Quarterly publication for all those involved in the field of teaching English as a second or foreign language. Available online.

A refereed journal for new research investigating language-related issues. Online abstracts, guidelines for contributors and subscription rates.

An international journal of linguistics. Available from Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest as of 2002. Selected articles in English.

Paper on a method for ear-training and auditory skill assessment of students of phonetics.

Database of recordings of speech in various languages.

Information on current projects, publications, graduate training, colloquia. Department of Psychology, Michigan State University.

Report by John F. Sowa, discussing the role of the lexicon in conceptual knowledge.

Companion material to a TV documentary examining the dynamic state of American (USA) English.

Supporting research into discourse analysis of language/texts which have ecological impact.

Lecture by M.S.N. Carpenter on whether freelancing is viable. Discusses various issues, including tips.

Covers membership and the association's annual journal, Teanga.

Offers MA, PhD and postgraduate degrees in applied linguistics and TESOL.

Handouts for a Language Policy college course. Somewhat cryptic, but a good introduction or review.

Diane August and Kenji Hakuta, Editors. A review of the current knowledge about the education of limited-English proficient students.

Statistical part-of-speech tagger trainable on different languages and tagsets. Trained and trainable versions. Online demo, noncommercial licensing information, documentation.

Research in statistical language modelling, language understanding, knowledge discovery, linguistic annotation, high performance computing, and digital language archiving.

3-day conference from the 15th-17th of July, 2002 at the University of Leicester, UK. Includes call for papers, program and registration.

February 19-22. University of Southern California. Includes conference program, both oral and poster presentations, as well as invited talks.

March 12-13. Keio University. Tokyo, Japan. Includes conference program and links to the abstracts of presentations given.

The site provides information on the call for papers, conference program, book of abstracts, and invited speakers. Calgary, Alberta. April 28-30.

Contains 14 languages for online learning, including grammar and vocabulary.

Translate English phrases into many different languages, and courses in various topics.

Learn languages through lessons such as alphabet, adjectives, nouns, plural, gender, numbers, phrases, grammar, vocabulary, verbs, exam, audio, and translation.

An introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and numbering. Interactive examples allow users to create hieroglyphic numbers and fractions.

Software for typesetting Egyptian hieroglyphs on the Macintosh.

An attempt to create a list of concepts, described in English, along with words to express those concepts in several natural and artificial languages.

Annotated links to resources for teachers of a variety of languages.

From an email list on foreign language learning in Grades K-8. Designed for parents, teachers and administrators.

Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.

Interview by Robb Scott from ESL MiniConference, with a picture and extensive links.

Introductory essay by Robert Beard on the tacit nature of first language acquisition.

Cognitive linguist with a special interest in visual metaphors.

Article by Kent Bach.

A refereed journal of literary research on the World Wide Web

Twelfth annual meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, held at the University of Twente. Program, abstracts, general information.

Held at the University of Hong Kong. Organizational information, program, workshops, abstracts.

Second annual meeting of the ACL's North American chapter, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Schedule, program, procedural information.