THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH

LINKS

Prof. Francisco Fernández

Links to interesting web pages and general resources

Old English

Middle English

Early Modern English

Present-day English

Links to interesting web pages and general resources

DICTIONARIES

CORPORA

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

Interesting webpages.

• A (Very) Brief History of the English Language
• History of English Websites
• English Language History Online Resources (Towson University)
• History of the English Language (Univ. Of Vermont)
• WWW English Links (Univ. Of Leeds)
• Quick links to the history of English-speaking countries
• The History of English Phonemes - English Language (ESL) Links ...
• Internet Resources for the History of English
• HEL internet resources: Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes' Analytic list
  History of the English Language (HEL) Home Page (Dan Mosser)
• The Evolution of Present-Day English, by Daniel W. Mosser
• English Historical Linguistics: bibliographical resources, research projects, and other interesting sites
• University of Helsinki Research Unit for Variation and Change in English: Sociolinguistics and language history; Scientific thought-styles; the Helsinki Dialect Corpus; Scots Corpora...
• History of English resources on UTEL (Ian Lancashire)
• English Language History: Links to Online Resources (Edwin Duncan)
• Pre-Modern English Pages: A Beginner’s Guide to Offline Language Materials (Reinhard Hahn)

Bibliographies of Old and Middle English language and literature from the Lowlands-L list.

• Chronology of events in the history of English (S. Kemmer)
• The Route of English (BBC)
• Research Unit for Variation and Change in English (University of Helsinki)
• Google's historical linguistics links

An assortment of links to various pages with information about historical linguistic principles.

• A Brief Look at the History of English – and the Merriam-Webster Dictionaries!
• Etymology Links (E.L. Easton)
• History of English Links (E.L. Easton)
• Historical Pragmatics: a bibliography (Andreas Jucker)
• A Humorous History
• Research Guide to the History of English (WCSU Libraries)
• Yahoo! Etymology Links
• University Courses on the history of English, stylistic, literary language, language variation (Susan Fitzmaurice)

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OLD ENGLISH

GENERAL: bibliographies, databases, web-page gateways

• Cathy Ball’s Old English Pages.
• Search the ANSAXDAT archive!
• Carol Biggam's Bibliography: General, Language, Literature, History, &c.!
• Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Authors in Anglo-Saxon England
• Anglo-Saxon England, the journal's homepage
• Table of Contents of Anglo-Saxon England to 1998
• Old English Language and Literature: select bibliographies (University of Virginia)
• Anglo-Saxon Culture: an online guide, by ENG1001F 2000
• Carl Berkhout’s Bibliographies of Anglo-Saxon Scholarship from the 16^th through the 20^th Century
• Simon Keynes’ Home Page
• Simon Keynes's OE bibliography links
• ORB: Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

History & literature

• Old English Pages: Historical Contexts
• Anglo-Saxon England (Britannica)
• Anglo-Saxon Culture: The Labyrinth Library’s Links
• Simon Keynes’s Bibliography of Anglo-Saxon History
• Beowulf bibliography 1979-1994 (Robert Hasenfratz)
• The Voice of the Shuttle: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature

Language

• Learning Old English (Tony Jebson)
• Learning Old English, an earlier version (Tony Jebson)
• Lowlands-L’s Bibliographies of Old English Language and Literature
• Old English Glossaries: creating a vernacular (A. Healey)
• Bibliography of publications using materials from The Historical Thesaurus of English
• Anglo-Saxon plant name survey (U of Glasgow)
• Old English Pages: Language Links
• Old English Pages: Instructional Software
• Old English at the University of Calgary: Murray McGillivray's Course
• Old English Aerobics
• Old English Pages: Audio Corpus
• Old English Pronunciation Practice (University of Virginia)
• Old English Computer Terminology
• Old English aloud (Steve Pollington)--click on capital letter for sound

Manuscripts

• Old English Manuscripts: Facsimiles
• Old English Manuscripts: Bibliographies of Scholarship from UVA
• The Old English Manuscripts Database Project

Fonts

• Old English Pages: Electronic Fonts

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MIDDLE ENGLISH

Culture and history

• ORB: the Online Reference Book for medieval studies (encyclopedias, textbooks, structured guides to internet resources ...
• Medieval England: The Labyrinth Library’s Links
• Anglo-Saxon and Medieval resources on VOS

Language

• Teach yourself Middle English (Larry Benson)
• Lowlands-L’s Bibliographies of Middle English Language and Literature
• Edwin Duncan’s Links to Medieval Language Resources
• Medieval Manuscripts on the Web: Albert Masters' site
• Manuscript studies: Medieval and Early Modern (Stephen Reimer, U of Alberta) The bibliography contains over 1000 items.
• Publications using the Historical Thesaurus of English
• The Ormulum Project: biography, bibliography, admonitions, extracts, translations ...
• Chaucer’s Language: Harvard Links
• Chaucer’s English: UNC Links
• Chaucer’s Pronunciation
• The Chaucer MetaPage Audio Files (Alan Baragona)

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EARLY MODERN ENGLISH

Culture and history

• Early Modern Literary Studies Links
• Luminarium’s Renaissance Literature Links
• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
• The Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Literature
• Luminarium’s Seventeenth-Century Literature Links
• Restoration Atalantis: a resource for literature and the arts of the Restoration
• Eighteenth-Century Resources (Jack Lynch, Rutgers)
• C18th chronology
• The Voice of the Shuttle: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
• The EServer’s Eighteenth-Century Cultural Studies Links
• C18-L Home Page (archives, bibliographies...)
• Eighteenth-Century Resources
• The Spectator Project: a hypermedia research archive of eighteenth-century periodicals
• Eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century journals: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Notes and Queries, The Gentleman's Magazine, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society
• Attributions of authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine 1731-1868 and the European Magazine 1782-1826
• Romantic chronology
• The Voice of the Shuttle: Romantic Literature
• The Victorian Web
• The Voice of the Shuttle: Victorian Literature

Language

• Elizabethan Accents: The Renaissance Faire
• The Great Vowel Shift
• The Great Vowel Shift Web Site (Melinda J. Menzer)
• Medieval and Early Modern English manuscript studies The bibliography contains over 1000 items
• A Brief History of Lexicography, by Erdmann and Cho
• Edmund Coote's The English Schoolmaister (1596)
• Coote's Contribution to English, by Professor Ian Lancashire
• New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries
• Early Dictionaries: articles and abstracts from Computing in the Humanities Working Papers
• Handwriting in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Bibliography (cumulative) of historical sociolinguistics/sociohistorical linguistics (Ingrid Tieken)
• Jack Lynch's papers on Early Modern attitudes to language
• World English in the long eighteenth century: a preliminary bibliography (Anne Coyle)
• Eighteenth-century printing, editing, and punctuation (Warren Hill Kelly)
• Eighteenth-century spelling: a preliminary bibliography (Carol Percy)
• Benchmarks in the History of English Grammar
• Eighteenth century sociolinguistics & prescriptivism: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade's homepage and publications
• Standard English: HEL-L's and Clinton Atchley's bibliography
• Standard English: Rebecca Howard's bibliography
• Carole Meyers’ Bibliography of Resources on Eighteenth-Century English Studies
• Captain James Cook's language: a bibliography
• Caroline Macafee's Select Classified Bibliography of Scots: includes a lot on Older Scots

Courses

• The history of persuasion (Hodson and Steadman-Jones, Sheffield)
• Literary language and literary history (Fitzmaurice, NAU)

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PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH

World English

• English Around the World: E.L. Easton’s Links
• Yahoo! World English
• World Wide Words
• Articles on World English
• Rita Raley, Global English
• OXford University Press, Global English Dictionaries

English-based pidgins and creoles

• The Creolist Archives English links, University of Stockholm
• Pidgins and creoles: Rebecca Howard's bibliography

Regional variation – Canadian English

• Canadian Dialect Topography: Prof. Jack Chambers' research
• Canadian English: E.L. Easton’s Links
• Cornerstone’s Canadian English Page
• Origin of Canada’s Geographical Names

Regional variation – British English

• British English: E.L. Easton’s Links
• Caroline Macafee's Selected Classified Bibliography of Scots
• Scots English: Lowlands-L Links
• Scots English: E.L. Easton’s Links
• Scottish National Dictionary Association Homepage
• Scots Language Resource Centre
• The Scots Language links

Regional variation – American English

• American English: E.L. Easton’s Links
• American Dialect Society Home Page
• Dictionary of American Regional English
• Linguistic Atlas Projects
• The Phonological Atlas of North America, University of Pennsylvania
• Noah Webster on the Web

Social variation

• Rebecca Moore Howard’s Sociolinguistics bibliographies: attitudes towards language, creoles and pidgins, African-American English, Spanish-English language contact, language planning, men's language, women's language

Occupational variation

• Postmodern English generator

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