Welcome to
HELL

History of the English Language Links

Department of English, University of Toronto

This site is no longer being updated. Please go to http://cpercy.artsci.utoronto.ca/hell!
This site is a list of links to on-line, worldwide resources for the study of the English language and its history.
Explore U of T's Dictionary of Old English Project, Albert Masters' Medieval Manuscripts site, Ian Lancashire's electronic Renaissance Dictionaries, Jack Chambers' work on Canadian dialects, and much more. Many of these links have been discovered by others: I'm particularly indebted to the HEL page, Cathy Ball, and Edwin Duncan. This site was last updated on 14 February 2002. Please recommend other sites!


Table of Contents

THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH:
includes general resources, other links to links, upcoming conferences...

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
English grammar, phonology, etc.

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS:
resources for the study of linguistics, not to mention Beatrice Santorini's linguistic humo(u)r site!

LANGUAGE FAMILIES:
the origins and relationships of the world's languages! So where does Finnish fit in?!

INDO-EUROPEAN:
the reconstructed ancestor of many European languages!

GERMANIC:
English is related to German, Dutch, Scandinavian languages...read about the Germanic migrations that made it all possible...

OLD ENGLISH:
bibliographies, links to OE language (teach yourself!), literature, culture, manuscripts, and much more!

MIDDLE ENGLISH:
bibliographies, language, literature, culture, Chaucer, and ... the incomparable ORM!

EARLY MODERN ENGLISH:
Elizabethan accents, electronic Renaissance dictionaries, bibliographies about standard English, lots on Older Scots, and the Great Vowel Shift!, and NEW! bibliographies on C18th spelling, editing/punctuation, and C18th world English.

PRESENT-DAY ENGLISHES:
world English, English-based pidgins and creoles, linguistic atlases, and many more references for the study of regional and social variation!

 

DICTIONARIES

CORPORA

ELECTRONIC TEXTS

ON-LINE JOURNALS & BOOK REVIEWS


This site is maintained by Professor Carol Percy, Department of English, University of Toronto
This site was designed and created by Jeff Waszynski in the summer of 1999, and updated by Joyce Chan in the fall of 2002.

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