Ling 202 | Resources

This page may be updated during the semester. Items are marked NEW when first added.

Contents of this page
Reserve readings
Linguistics background information and resources
General resources for historical linguistics
History of English
Writing systems and ancient languages
Computational resources for historical linguistics

Reserve readings

The course textbook and several other books on historical linguistics have been put on reserve for this course.

The LING 101 textbook, Contemporary Linguistics, is on permanent reserve in the Undergraduate Library.
Some glossaries of linguistics terms and concepts (use with caution, but may be helpful)
- From SIL International
- From Utrecht University Institute of Linguistics
Phonetic alphabets and symbols
- The International Phonetic Alphabet -- IPA chart, from the International Phonetic Association
- IPA symbols in Unicode, from John Wells, UCL
- Word-processing with IPA fonts

[NEW] "Reliable sources on [language] classification", from the archives at Language Log
"How likely are chance resemblances between languages?" by Mark Rosenfelder
Mapping language families
- MultiTree, at the LINGUIST List - "A searchable database of hypotheses on language relationships"
- Language Maps, by Steve Huffman - Turns the language family structures as given by Ethnologue into maps

Changing Language, from the British Library
"Uncleftish Beholding" (excerpts), by Poul Anderson - What might scientific writing in English look like without the influence of French and classical languages?

The Ancient Scripts site, by Lawrence Lo
Omniglot: "The online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages," by Simon Ager