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News, Reference, Journals

• Alltop (blogs and news sources), EurikAlert
• Upcoming Conferences (Linguist List)

• Scholarly Societies:
• Linguistics, Languages (Links from Waterloo, 2007)
• British Linguistics Societies (Links from LA of GB)

• The Linguist List (a range of resources)
• Glossary of Linguistic Terms (SIL)
• Glottopedia (linguistic terms: wiki in progress)
• Numbers in Ancient Languages (Mark Rosenfelder)
• Google nGram Viewer (word-frequency calculator for Googlebooks texts)
• UZ-Translations (Linguistic e-books)
• The Metathesis Website (Ohio)
  • Journals : JSTOR (archive)
  • Language, Lingua
  • Linguistic Inquiry

Languages & Philology

Blogs & Discussions
• Babel's Dawn (origin of speech: Edmund Bolles)
• English Words & Usage (links)
• Language Hat (wide-ranging posts: Steve Dodson)
• Language Log (mostly usage: Liberman, Pullum, Zwicky)
• Paleoglot (ancient languages: Glen Gordon)
• Philologie à venir (Aurélien Berra)
• Words of the World (Nottingham : Brady Haran)
  Writing Systems
  • Ancient Scripts (introduction: Lawrence Lo)
  • History of Information (timeline: Jeremy Norman)
  • Omniglot (writing systems and languages: Simon Ager)
  • Language Museum (samples of 2,000 languages: Zhang Hong)
  • The Akkadian Language (the 600 cuneiform signs)
  • Maya Decipherment (blog: David Stuart)
  • Ancient Writing (manuscripts, papyri, inscriptions)
  • Deaditerranean (Cretan writing systems)

• Celtic Languages (Meredith Richard: introduction)
• Celtic Links (Sydney)
  Greek (see also Ancient Sources, Dictionaries, Grammars)
  • Portal for the Greek Language (Thessaloniki)
  • Linear B (Cambridge)
  • Ancient Greek Pronunciation Guide (Berkeley: Donald Mastronarde )
  • Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway (Michael Palmer, with bibliography on Hellenistic Greek)
  • Differences between Classical and Hellenistic Greek (Pennsylvania: Jay Treat)
  • Hellenisteukontos (Modern Greek-English Blog: Nick Nicholas)
    Italic, Romance (see also Dictionaries, Grammars)
    • Accademia della Crusca (with Opera del Vocabolario Italiano)
    • Víteliú: The Languages of Ancient Italy
    • Trésor de la Langue Français (with etymologies: CNTRL)
    • French Linguistics (language-learning tools)
      Germanic (see also Dictionaries)
      • Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (Cambridge: Blog)
      • Old Norse News (Chris Abram: UCL)
      • The Great Vowel Shift (Furman University: with )

  World

  • Anthro-ling (blog: David Kaufman)
  • Bulbulovo (Semitic blog: Slovakia)
  • Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group
  • Chinese Language Tools (note 'mouse' tool)
  • Endangered Language Fund (New Haven: links)
  • Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (UCL)
  • Jabal-al-Lughat (blog: Lameen Souag, SOAS)
  • Language Documentation and Conservation (Open Access)
  • Languages of the World (Ethnologue: data and maps)
  • Languages and Groups (Kelley Ross, with Trees and Genetic Mapping)
  • Borean Language Tree (Sergei Starostin)
  • Oriental Institute (Chicago: projects)
  • Paleojudaica (blog: James Davila)
  • Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
  • Rosetta Project (Stanford: Digital Library of Languages)
    Endangered Languages and Lost Knowledge
  • UNESCO: Endangered Languages (interactive atlas)
  • World Oral Literature Project (Cambridge)

Personal Names

(For place-names, see Maps)
• Behind the Name (given names: Mike Campbell)
• Kinship (and Kin Naming Systems: Palomar College)
• Distribution of Surnames (world map)
• Wikipedia: Most Common Surnames (listing by continent)
  Family Name Etymologies, Affixes
• AviTree (Italian surnames)
• Genealogy Searching (the Mormon database, with links)
• GenUKI (British and Irish links)
• Ancestry.co.uk
• Curious Fox (families by British locality)

Linguistics Departments

Selected Departments

The symbol indicates online papers or articles.
Some departments provide open-access courseware: see Courses

• Bangor University
  • David Crystal ()
• Berkeley
  • Andrew Garrett (), Eve Sweetser ()
• Birmingham (Corpus Linguistics Centre)
• Brown
• Cambridge
• Cardiff
• Chicago
• Cornell
• Dartmouth
• Durham (Modern Languages and Cultures)
• Edinburgh
  • Jim Hurford (), Geoffrey Pullum ()
• Exeter (Modern Languages)
• Georgetown
• Harvard
  • James Huang (), Jay Jasanoff (), Maria Polinsky ()
• Kings College London Dynamic Syntax Group
• Kyoto: Primate Language and Intelligence Program
• Lancaster
  • David Barton, Jonathan Culpepper
• Leiden
• Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
• Manchester (Linguistics and English)
• Massachusetts (Amherst)
• McGill
• Michigan
• MIT
  • News (neuroscience, literature)
• Newcastle
• New York University
• Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Ohio State
• Oxford
  • Roy Harris ()
• Paris Sorbonne (CELTA)
  • Alliance Paris Universitas (links to participating institutions)
  • Institut Jean-Nicod (ENS)
• Pennsylvania
• Princeton
• Sheffield
  • Sylvia Adamson, Nigel Duffield ()
• SOAS
• Stanford
  • Paul Kiparsky (), Tom Wasow (), Arnold Zwicky ()
• Sussex: Working Papers in Linguistics ( up to 2008)
  Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, Geoffrey Sampson ()
• UCLA
  • Daniel Büring (), Hilda Koopman ()
    Dominique Sportiche ()
• University College London
  • IPA, Working Papers in Linguistics ()
    Richard Hudson (), John Wells (phonetics blog)
• Yale
  • Stephen Anderson (), Bob Frank (), Laurence Horne ()
• York

Machine Translation

• ProZ.com (translators' discussion group)
• NLP News (machine translation articles)
• Edinburgh (statistical MT, with Caitra tool)
• Franz Och (Google)

• Online Translation Systems
  • Statistical: Google (information)
    Microsoft (Bing, syntax-informed; blog)

  • Rule-Based: PROMT (Paralink, Website Translator)
    SYSTRAN (Babelfish), SDL Transcend (idiosyncratic)
    Apertium (Iberian, Celtic, Scandinavian), GramTrans (Scandinavian)
  • Hybrid: WorldLingo (Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew)

Natural Language Processing

• Links to resources (Stanford)
• Google Publications
• Corpus Linguistics Dictionary
• Penn Treebank Project