A World of Words

Linguistics 114, Section 001: Fall Term 2001
Prof. John Lawler, Linguistics Department, University of Michigan

Class Home Page

Local U Michigan resources . . . MIRLYN Web, from U-M Libraries, like the Electronic Reference Shelf U-M Documents Center, including Congressional Compass U-M InfoTech Policies, ITDweb, and Documentation system ITD Campus Computing Sites and Consultants (764-HELP, Online)	. . . (some restricted to U Michigan people) Ling 114 Course Schedule Grimm's Law (beta software for this class) Macintosh software for this class. (HyperCard; turn off "Sound" buttons in System 7 and above) Oxford English Dictionary American Heritage Dictionary (including Indo-European Roots) Encyclopædia Britannica
Latin A list of English grammatical terms with the Latin words they come from. Allen & Greenough's Latin Grammar Latin Dictionary The Council of Remiremont (a spicy text, with notes) Latin Texts Donatus on tropes (Latinê) and figures of speech (Latinê) The Hard Little Words from Medieval Latin The Latin Vulgate Bible Greek The Perseus Project: Greek Dictionary Guide to Ancient Greek Hellenistic Greek Old and Middle English History of the English Language Old English *Hwæt!* Old English Aloud Anglo-Saxon Books Catalogue The Middle English Dictionary, from UM Middle English	References A Web of On-line Dictionaries and A Web of On-line Grammars from Robert Beard at Bucknell. The Human-Languages Page and Yamada Language Guides, two general sources The Ethnologue, from SIL. Every living language known, by family, with statistics. The Top 100 Languages Alta Vista translations Miscellaneous Languages Henry V page and Notes on the Play, for this class. WordNet online; English words and their connections The Awful German Language, Italian Without a Master, and Italian with Grammar by Mark Twain The Hebrew Bible Mark 16:12-18 in Gothic Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay Dictionary (an online Australian language) The Dakota Language Homepage Proto-Indo-European The Indo-European Home Page Information, Family Tree, and Details Indo-European and the Comparative Method Roots and Cognates, and The Indo-European Database The Early History of the Indo-European Languages
Linguistics Linguistics Classes on the Web LINGUIST List: Ebonics and Sapir-Whorf LSA Resolution on "Ebonics" Geoff Nunberg on the Ebonics flap English Grammar FAQ, by your professor Linguistic Terminology, a very nice job Language and Gender Syllabi Language Construction Kit, for all you SF & Fantasy fans Ask A Linguist, with recent responses, and your professor's responses Whimsy The Chomskybot, also by your professor The Julia Simon FAQ Linguistic Fun from Robert Beard	Metaphor Metaphor, Morality, and Politics, by George Lakoff The Conceptual Metaphor Homepage Design for a Theory of Meaning, by Mark Turner The Metaphor Center Virginia Montecino's Metaphors in various fields Metaphors We Compute By, by your professor Etymology The Jargon File Computerspeak Behind the Name, on personal names Take Our Word For It, more general vocabulary A Little Etymology, from a dot.com, no less Margo's Magical Letter Page, on phonosemantics The ReadMe file from the Lawler-Rhodes Simplex Word Database (DOS/Windows only), also on phonosemantics.

Last modified January 10, 2003