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Languages and Linguistics

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General Sites

  • Literature and Language Resources available electronically via the University of Kentucky Libraries.

  • Aquarius Directory of Translators and Interpreters, with more than 4,000 people and 500 companies covering 369 languages and 91 specialized areas of expertise (as of 4/6/98).
  • Center for Research in Language, University of California--San Diego.
  • CALL Computer-Assisted Language Learning from Ohio University.
  • The Ethnologue, catalog of the world's languages, including information on alternate names, number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliation, and other sociolinguistic and demographic information. This database represents the 12th edition of the Ethnologue, published in 1992.
  • Foreign Languages for Travelers
  • Foreign Language Resource Center
  • The Glossarist, compendium of glossaries on various subjects.
  • Human Languages Virtual Library
  • Joint Language Training Center, foreign language resources.
  • Language Dictionaries & Translators, gateway to dictionary and translation services for over thirty languages.
  • Language Links, collection of informative links for students of languages. Languages covered include English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
  • Languages-on-the-Web, links to language and linguistics resources.
  • Linguistics Resources on the Internet, provided by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, located at the International Linguistics Center in Dallas, Texas. Focuses on the study of minority languages and cultures around the world.
  • Linguistics Virtual Library
  • List of Dictionaries, guide to bilingual and other dictionaries.
  • A Web of On-line Grammars, from Robert Beard, Professor and Chair of the Russian Program at Bucknell University. Links to online grammar resources for more than twenty languages. An additional page of morphology links connects to sites that will conjugate verbs, assist in declensions, and provide morphological analysis in response to user input.

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    Specific Resources

  • Agora Language Marketplace

  • Alta Vista Translation Service, type in an English passage, and this have it translated into French, German, Spanish, or Portuguese.

  • American Sign Language Browser, QuickTime clips are used to demonstrate the signs for various words in this excellent site from Michigan State University's Comm Tech Lab. Each sign is also accompanied by a brief verbal comment. The site is based on a CD-ROM designed for use by deaf children.

  • American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project,collaborative project focusing on linguistic research of the syntactic structure of American Sign Language.

  • Applied Semiotics, academic journal devoted to literary semiotic research published by the Department of French of the University of Toronto.

  • Association for Computational Linguistics, database of Web-accessible material related to computational linguistics and natural-language processing, including conference announcements and academic departments.

  • Australian National Dictionary Centre

  • The Boston School of Modern Languages, private language institution established in 1925 for the purpose of teaching English to foreign students.

  • Chomsky's Universal Grammar in Prolog

  • English as a 2nd Language, from The Virtual English Language Center

  • Dictionary of Slang, British.

  • Haskins Laboratories, Speech Science Research

  • Human Languages Page

  • Index of On-line Dictionaries, very broad-based guide.

  • Internet Dictionary Project

  • The Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, international academic journal devoted to the study of pidgin and creole linguistics.

  • Kentucky Foreign Language Conference

  • Language Dictionaries & Translators, gateway to dictionary and translation services for over thirty languages.

  • Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid

  • Language Acquisitions Center, from the University of Texas, Arlington.

  • Language Dictionaries, from Cornell University Library.

  • Language Engineering Corporation

  • Language in the Judicial Process, newsletter providing information of use to individuals in the fields of linguistics and jurisprudence. Includes information on discussion groups, resources, conferences and current citations in the field of language and the law.

  • Language Interactive, from the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Foreign Languages. Provides an introduction and resource list for language/humanities teachers to create interactive Web pages with an emphasis on comprehension testing and collaborative writing.

  • Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology

  • Le Libre Journal de la France Courtoise

  • LinguaCenter, ESL & EFL Information from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

  • Linguistics, from the WWW Virtual Library

  • Linguistics Journals and Newsletters on the Web

  • Linguistics Material on the Web

  • Linguistics Resources on the Internet, including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.

  • The LOGOS Multilingual Dictionary

  • Meta Index of Linguistics, Natural Language, and Computational Linguistics resources.

  • MLN, Modern Language Notes Accessible from campus machines or off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff by following these proxy server access instructions.

  • National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, national research center funded by the U.S. Office of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.

  • Native American Languages Center.

  • Dictionary of Old English Corpus, available through the Humanities Text Initiative for University of Kentucky faculty, staff & students.

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Click on "ENTER OED ONLINE." Accessible from campus computers and off-campus via the proxy server.

  • De Proverbio, An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies

  • Sign Linguistics Resource Index

  • The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, sponsored by the Native American Language Center at the University of California-Davis. Includes a searchable listing of articles on American Indian Languages in more than 100 journals from 1988 to the present; a Dissertation & Thesis Index, publishing abstracts of over 200 dissertations and theses on American Indian languages and related topics; a searchable database of notices and reviews for over 650 relevant books; an extensive and briefly annotated directory of Internet links for additional research; and a catalog of language learning materials, including ordering information, available for over 200 North American Indian languages.

  • The Tandem Database, with materials for language learning in tandem. From the Department of Research on the Teaching of Modern Languages, Ruhr-Universitt, Bochum, Germany.

  • Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), includes test dates, sample questions and study materials.

  • The Virtual English Language Center, resource for students and teachers of English as a second or foreign language.

  • WordNet, Online Lexical Reference System.

  • WordNet, lexical reference system that combines aspects of dictionaries and thesauri with current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. Produced by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University, under the direction of Professor George Miller. In WordNet, words are defined and grouped into various related sets of synonyms.

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    Specific Languages

    Chinese
  • Animated Chinese Characters, shows you how to write various characters in Chinese, brush stroke by brush stroke.
  • Chinese Yahoo!
  • Renditions, from the Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Translations of both classical and contemporary Chinese literature, including prose, poetry, and fiction.

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    Please Note: This site is being transferred to the Libraries' Subject Guides site and has therefore not been updated recently. It is being reviewed, and appropriate resources will be moved to the Subject Guides site. This page will be removed July 1, 2007.

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    French
  • ABU, the Association des Bibliophiles Universels tries to offer as many French public domain texts as possible.
  • Agence France-Presse, global news service.
  • ATHENA: books, literature, arts, science, mineralogy, Pierre Perroud.
  • ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language)
    (University of Chicago)
    (13th - 20th centuries)
    Full-text resource of 2,000 works. Coverage ranges from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. Includes text collections in French, English & Italian; guides and bibliographies; and dictionaries and other ref. works, including Diderot. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. A Provençal poetry database was recently (2004) added that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. Other texts include French Women Writers and pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions. A cooperative enterprise of Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française (ATILF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.
    Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.
  • La Bibliothèque Nationale de France
  • La culture francophone, c'est chouette!
  • Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des métiers et des arts, presented by the ARTFL Project. Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.
  • Les Echos, newspaper dealing with economics/stock exchange.
  • Etudes Francaises, Universite de Toronto.
  • France, country information.
  • French Books in Print
  • French-English Dictionary Form, presented by the ARTFL Project. Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.
  • The French Page, from Appalachian State University.
  • French Sites on the Web, from the University of Kentucky. Department of French Languages and Literature.
  • International Dada Archive
  • List of French Language Sites
  • Le Lyon Progrès Newspaper, in English and French.
  • La Médiathèque de l'Ircam, multi-media library located in Paris.
  • Paris Match
  • La Petite Bibliothèque de France
  • Publishers
  • S o l l i l o q u e, a force de croquer des cailloux dans les nougats.
  • Table des Matières
    Ressources Françaises
  • Three French Webzines: Cybersphere, Yoko, and La Critique du Public.
  • The Tocqueville Connection, source for French news and analyses.
  • Volterre-Fr, English and French Language Resources. For students, educators and administrators of English and French as a foreign or second language.

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    German
  • Amazon.com, in German.
  • The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Transport presents an extensive multimedia information system in the area of science and culture.
  • Cologne Public Library
  • denkra:ume GlobalBrain, with information about training, mental fitness, women online, ecology, economy, and neuro-linguistic programming.
  • Deutsche Datenquellen, the WWW Virtual Library in German.
  • Deutsche Welle
  • Deutschland im Internet, navigator zu allem, was unter den deutschsprachigen Web-Sites gut, wichtig und neu ist. Mit Suchfunktion.
  • DINO - The German Search Engine, Internet directory/search engine, presenting exclusive German content - in German language.
  • GEO Explorer, die website des deutschen GEO Magazins. Bringt mit guter Grafik: Wissens-Datenbank, Magazin, Spiele, Forum, Shop, Projekt Tropischer Regenwald.
  • German Books in Print
  • German Embassy & Information Center
  • German-English Dictionary, from Link Everything Online.
  • German-English On-line Dictionary
  • German Feminist Website
  • German in the Low Countries
  • German Language Bookmarks, from the Department of Foreign Languages at The University of Toledo.
  • German News, in German, English and Spanish.
  • German Newspapers Online
  • The German Page, from Appalachian State University.
  • German Related Sites, from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Kentucky.
  • German Resources, from the WWW Virtual Library. >German Resources Catalogue, comprehensive listing of materials available through the Goethe Institutes in the USA.
  • German Website Hotlist
  • Germanistik im Internet
  • Germany, country information.
  • H-German Home Page, home of a discussion list on German history.
  • Humboldt Forum Recht, eine reine Internet-Publikation, herausgegeben von Jura-Studenten und Referendaren. Professoren der Juristischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bilden den wissenschaftlichen Beirat.
  • Internationaler Biographischer Index, The International Biographical Index provides bibliographical access to 2.8 million biographical articles in close to 3,000 international biographical reference works from the 16th to the 20th century.
  • Kleine Zeitung, daily newspaper from Austria Includes news on culture, politics, and life. In German.
  • 19th-Century German Stories
  • Olivers Links zur Literatur, source of information for German-language literature, including annotations and author coverage, libraries, projects (i.e., Projekt Gutenberg), publishers and bookstores.
  • Oxford Duden German-English Dictionary, fulltext available via Past Masters. Accessible via campus computers. Also available off-campus for UK faculty, students and staff; follow these proxy server access instructions.
  • Paperball, news service allowing you to search daily newspapers from Germany. Choose a broad subject area (e.g., Kultur) and see the top stories in that area from 8 or 9 papers.
  • Paperboy, includes many German and non-German papers and also some news services. Includes feature that allows you to choose topics, save them, and in effect create your own newspaper.
  • Rechtschreibreform = spelling reform. Rechtschreibreform Rechtschreibung Neuregelung.
  • Resources for German
  • Rheinischer Merkur, German weekly newspaper published nationwide.
  • Der Spiegel
  • Stuttgarter Zeitung
  • Der Tagesspiegel, daily newspaper for those interested in Berlin.
  • Vh-1derland, German-language music magazine complementing the music channel VH-1 Germany.
  • Yahoo Deutschland

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    Greek
  • Hellenistic Greek Linguistics Pages

  • Hebrew Alphabet
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    Italian
  • Casalini Libri, Italian Books.
  • Internet Bookshop Italia
  • Italian Language Pages
  • Italian Language Lessons, by Lucio Chiappetti.
  • Italian Language Resources on the Internet, from the Institute for Academic Technology.
  • Italian Mailing Lists, for teachers.
  • Italian Resources, maintained by the Department of Spanish & Italian Languages & Literature.
  • Italy, country information.
  • List of Italian Language Sites

  • Yale Italian Studies Pages

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    Japanese
  • Bibliographies for Japanese Studies (in Japanese). From Duke University.
  • Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, "Intensive Training in Advanced Spoken and Written Japanese," Yokohama, Japan.
  • Japan Foundation & Language Center, Los Angeles.
  • Japanese Language and Culture Network, MIT.
  • Japanese Language Dictionaries
  • Japanese Oldtales: A Multilingual E-text Collection. From the University of Library and Information Science in Ibaraki.
  • Japanese Online, introductory language lessons with dialogues, vocabulary, grammar, and culture modules. Sound files help with pronunciation.
  • Japanese-related Projects at Purdue University.
  • Japanese Studies Resources, from the Duke University East Asian Collection. Describes resources available at Duke and through the Internet, including encyclopedias, general and subject bibliographies, word and name dictionaries, periodical and newspaper indexes and holdings, library and book catalogs, East Asian collections in the US, related web sites, and Japan-related discussion lists. The guide covers both English and Japanese language resources.
  • UCLA Center for Japanese Studies

  • Ojibwe Language and Culture, Native-American group that today occupies Southern Canada and the north central United States. Presents essays, a Ojibwe language tutorial, cross-cultural materials and a bibliography of future references.

    Polish

  • Polish-English Dictionary

    Portuguese

  • List of Portuguese Language Sites

  • Portuguese Language, contains history, bibliography, and other information.

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    Russian/Slavic
  • AATSEEL, the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.
  • ABSEES Online, the online version of The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Searchable by ten different fields, including author, title, subject, date of publication, and publisher. Available to University of Kentucky on-campus users and off-campus via the proxy server. Additional information.
  • English-Russian-Russian-English Dictionary
  • List of Slavic Language Sites
  • PressRover from Russian Story, historical Russian newspapers with Russian language Java WebKeyboard and adjustable layout supporting a wide range of configurations.
  • REESWeb, Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources; from the University of Pittsburgh.
  • Russia, country information.
  • Russian Constitution
  • Russian Story, provides a collection of Russian newspapers online. Fulltext search with relevance ranking is available.
  • Russian Studies Resources on the Internet, From Washington & Lee University Libraries.
  • Slavic Review, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

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  • Spanish

  • Welsh

  • Medieval Welsh Authors, edited by Professor Chris Grooms and provided by Collin County (Texas) Community College, this site is designed to help experienced learners "fill the gaps between speaking, writing and reading the Welsh language." In addition to exercises to help users master the various aspects of the literary language, the site also serves as an introduction to medieval Welsh literature. Additional resources include a research bibliography, a collection of related links, and information on reference works.


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    University of Kentucky Language Departments and Related Sites

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  • Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
  • Department of Russian & Eastern Studies
  • Department of Spanish & Italian Languages and Literature

    • This page was last updated 21 June 2005.

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