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English language research

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Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Select Bibliography: Topics covered include old English language and literature, Anglo-Latin and Latin ecclesiastical texts, palaeography, diplomatic, illumination, history, numismatics, onomastics, archaeology, fiction, and children's books.
Author: Biggam, Carole
Subjects: anglo-saxon archaeology, british history to 1100, english language research, latin, medieval history
DeweyClass: 942.01
Resource type: bibliography
AskOxford.com: English language resource with information on the introduction and evolution of words throughout the 20th century, a guide to better writing, a selection of word games, and a discussion on 'global english'. A word of the day, quotation of the week, and prize quizzes and crosswords also feature.
Author: Oxford University Press
Subjects: english language education, english language research
DeweyClass: 420
Resource type: documents, guide
British National Corpus: A 100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
Author: Oxford University Humanities Computing Unit
Subjects: english language research, health links, health services, humanities research, text collections
DeweyClass: 001.3
Resource type: book collection, directory
Center for Research in Language: UCSD research institute, mainly focusing on neural aspects of language learning.
Author: University of California San Diego
Subjects: english language research, language learning, linguistics
DeweyClass: 407
Resource type: institution
Common Errors in English: Highlights and discusses common deviations from standard English usage (with an emphasis on American English).
Author: Brians, Paul
Subjects: english language research
DeweyClass: 427
Resource type: guide
COMPARA: Offers a bi-directional corpus of Portuguese and English language fiction. Provides free access to original texts aligned with their translations, to allow users to compare and contrast features of Portuguese and English.
Author: Computational Processing of Portuguese Project
Subjects: english language research, portuguese
DeweyClass: 469
Resource type: documents
English Subject Centre: Part of the Higher Education Academy and supports the teaching of English literature, language and creative writing in UK Higher Education. This website offers a range of activities, information and ideas to help lecturers enhance the student experience. Includes latest news, useful links and information on forthcoming events.
Author: Higher Education Academy
Subjects: english language education, english language research, english literature - general
DeweyClass: 420
Resource type: documents
History of the English Language: Series of links investigating the origins and development of the English language. Includes material relating to old, middle, modern, American, and present day English, and pre-historical resources such as the Indo-European and Nostratic languages. Provides access to a discussion list, HEL-L.
Author: Mosser, Dan
Subjects: english language research
DeweyClass: 420
Resource type: index
Internet Grammar of English: Includes articles on word class usage, phrases, clauses, sentences, form, function, and exercises on grammatical components such as adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions. Also features a glossary, index, and search facility. Available free of charge to users from UK educational institutions.
Author: University College London
Subjects: english language education, english language research
DeweyClass: 425
Resource type: guide
MHRA: Modern Humanities Research Association: The Association aims to maintain the broader unity of humanistic scholarship in the face of increasing specialisation, through the publication of original work, including journals, bibliographies, monographs such as the The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL).
Author: Modern Humanities Research Association
Subjects: english language research, humanities research, literary studies
DeweyClass: 001.3
Resource type: institution
New Zealand English: Offers information on the English language in New Zealand. Outlines the origins of New Zealand English, examines social variations in dialect, and offers audio files illustrating the pronunciation of the common sounds. Also features a bibliography and details of related research projects.
Author: Newman, John
Subjects: english language research, new zealand
DeweyClass: 427.993
Resource type: documents, sounds
Notes and Queries: Founded under the editorship of the antiquary W. J. Thoms, the primary intention of Notes and Queries is the asking and answering of readers' questions. It is devoted principally to English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism.
Author: OUP
Subjects: english language research
DeweyClass: 020
Resource type: journal
Online Medieval and Classical Library: Texts and translations of a collection of literary works of Classical and Medieval civilisation. Provides a facility for downloading texts, and allows Boolean searching.
Author: Killings, Douglas B.
Subjects: english language research, english literature to 1800, european literature, greek literature, iceland, latin, text collections
DeweyClass: 427.02
Resource type: documents, poems
Phrase Finder: A Phrases Thesaurus: A large collection of phrases in English which can be searched or browsed. The meaning and source of each phrase is given. There is also a forum for discussion of the derivation of English phrases.
Author: Phrasefinder
Subjects: english language research
DeweyClass: 422
Resource type: dictionary, forum, thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus: Supplemented with over 1,000 words not present in the original 1911 edition.
Author: Roget, Peter Mark
Subjects: english language dictionaries, english language research
DeweyClass: 030
Resource type: non-fiction ebook
Scottish Place-Name Society: Notes and queries grouped by county, pertaining to the derivation and meaning of place names in Scotland. Provides news of ongoing projects in toponymics, past and future conference announcements and reports, and a bibliography of classic texts and new publications.
Author: Scottish Place-Name Society
Subjects: english language research, geography research, scottish history
DeweyClass: 914.1
Resource type: documents
Taxonomy Warehouse: Searchable and browsable directory of taxonomies, ontologies, authority files, classification schemes, and thesauri. Each entry has a record providing the resource's name, publisher, subject category covered, a description, preferred terms, non preferred terms, relationships, levels, notation scheme (yes/no), languages presented in, formats, access details, and total number of terms and top terms, all where applicable. An email alerting service offers to update registrants with details of new taxonomies as soon as they are added to the warehouse.
Author: Synapse
Subjects: english language research, reference
DeweyClass: 030
Resource type: directory
Teams Middle English Texts: Collection of more than one hundred middle English texts online. Includes King Arthur and King Cornwall, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, The Ploughman's Tale, Lancelot of the Laik, and a collection of Robin Hood tales.
Author: Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages
Subjects: english language research, english literature to 1800, folklore, text collections
DeweyClass: 427.02
Resource type: non-fiction ebooks
Text Doctor: Webliography of English and Language Resources: Listings of Internet resources for writing and communication such as dictionaries, thesauri, grammar guides and research and reference sites.
Author: Text Doctor
Subjects: english language dictionaries, english language education, english language research, writing links
DeweyClass: 403
Resource type: dictionary index
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus: Interactive tool exploring the structure of the English language and relationships between words and concepts. Users can enter a word which is then displayed in the centre of a spatial map showing connections to related terms. Any term within this display can them be selected in turn to retrieve its associated terms.
Author: Thinkmap
Subjects: english language research
DeweyClass: 030
Resource type: interactive service, reference documents
Verb Movement in Old and Middle English: Dialect Variation and Language Contact: Document discussing the differences in verb movement syntax between the northern and southern dialects of Middle English. It is proposed that this difference is due to the imperfect learning of Old English by Scandinavian invaders.
Author: Kroch, Anthony & Taylor, Ann
Subjects: english language research, english literature to 1800, linguistics
DeweyClass: 429
Resource type: document
Word Detective: Online version of the US newspaper column which answers readers' questions about words and language. Features an archive of back columns arranged either by the word or phrase they cover, or by the date of publication.
Author: Morris, Evan
Subjects: english language research
DeweyClass: 422
Resource type: documents
WordNet: A Lexical Database for English: An online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
Author: Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory
Subjects: english language research, linguistics
DeweyClass: 423
Resource type: reference document
World Wide Words: Exploring the English Language: Definitions and history of English words and phrases. Topical terms that do not yet have dictionary entries are covered, along with a section of 'weird words', and answers to users' questions about word history and usage. Articles on various aspects of language are available, along with book reviews and a phonetic key.
Author: Quinion, Michael B.
Subjects: english language research, phonetics
DeweyClass: 420
Resource type: reference document