utel/language/Grammar.htm A brief review of English traditional grammar by A.G. english/grammar/index.php This site contains an online grammar and other sources. hypertextbooks/engl_126/book126.htm This "The HyperTextBook Modern English Grammar" is written by Daniel Kies. Grammar ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar This web site contains a grammar compiled at the University College London. index.html The Phrase Finder provides both an online thesaurus of phrases and sayings and a bulletin board that allows you to query the origin of a phrase or saying. lang This metasite allows easy access to a variety of dictionaries, thesauruses, word translators, and other interesting tools. The Urban Dictionary is a comprehensive resource on English slang.
The Free Dictionary by Farlex contains a dictionary, lists of acronyms and idioms, among other sources. rogets This is another online dictionary and thesaurus. See the 1911 edition of Roget's thesaurus at: Similar to the above website is Visuwords, another online graphical dictionary that allows users to view a word and its entire lexical field. This is a 3-D thesaurus of English which allows you to explore sense relations in the language. This is a commercial online dictionary and thesaurus available from Merriam-Webster. Libraries often have subscriptions to the online version, which may be searched electronically. Dictionaries and thesauruses /about The Oxford English Dictionary is the premier source of information about English vocabulary. glossary.html This is a list of linguistic terminology designed for ESL speakers but useful for all students of grammar and linguistics. linguistics/linguistic-terms-dictionary.php This is a brief, but useful glossary of terms. It is not complete but already has many helpful entries. index.php/Main_Page This is a free dictionary of linguistics (modeled on Wikipedia) under the direction of Sven Naumann and Jan Wohlgemuth. ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/frames/glossary.htm The Internet Grammar (see below) contains a "Glossary of Terms", which might prove useful. sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/Index.htm The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) has an extensive glossary of terms. Linguistic terminology This "Lexicon of Linguistics" is produced at Utrecht University. This website supplies statistics concerning the use of English (and other languages) worldwide. channel/UCxcu3XYwahHVs_3R_WGRGDQ This YouTube channel airs videos that encompass the broader field of linguistics.
~karchung/linguistics%20links.htm Karen Chung maintains this very comprehensive list of language and linguistics links. courses/intro/intro.html Martin Weisser of Chemnitz University of Technology presents his introduction to linguistics. This is a forum for the general discussion of linguistics, with specialized subfora. ted.com/topics/language This is a list of some of the TED talks on language. OcwWeb/Linguistics-and-Philosophy/index.htm This is the link to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare, which provides access to many of MIT's linguistics courses.
186 You will find here the full text of Edward Sapir's classic introduction to linguistics, An Introduction to the Study of Speech.
The "Words of the Year" section makes interesting reading. Its listserv contains discussions of a large range of topic. There is also an "Ask a Linguist" section: /ask-ling.Ī This is the web site of the American Dialect Society. There is a high probability that it has been discussed on the list at some time. You may search the archives of the Linguist list for any topic in language that interests you.
This is the main listserv in the field of linguistics.
General resources /what-linguistics The web site of the Linguistic Society of America contains a section "What is Linguistics" that contains a large number of pamphlets written by well-known linguistics on topics ranging from "multilingualism", to "language variation and change", to "language acquisition".