Kleanthes Grohmann: History of English -- LINKS

English Language History Online Resources

The HEL (History of the English Language) Home Page (Dan Mosser)
A Narrative History of England (Peter Williams) from pre-Roman times to the present
Take Our Word for It A weekly web magazine of interesting origins of English words.
World Wide Words (Michael Quinion) - Information about interesting English words.
British History (Britannia) - timelines, documents, monarchs, biographies, etc.
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (Project Bartleby) - complete English literary history.
American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed. (Project Bartleby) - useful for etymologies, which go back to Indo-European roots

Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish (University of Iowa) - click on English sounds library (requires Quicktime and Flash plug-ins)
The Phones and Phonemes of English (George Dillon) - descriptions, charts, sounds of phonemes
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Home Page
The IPA Full Chart of Phonetic Symbols for all Languages
Phthong (University of Toronto) - exercises for phonemic transcription
IPA Articulators (SIL) - facial chart locates parts of the speech-producing mechanism
Interactive Sagittal Section (University of Toronto) - shows points and manners of articulation for various phonemes
Online Phonetics Course (University of Lausanne)

"What We All Spoke When the World Was Young" - Feb. 1, 2000, NY Times article on language superfamilies and the comparative method
"Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language" (1995 NY Times article on Nostratic)
The Early History of the Indo-European Languages (Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov) - 1990 Scientific American article on Nostratic
The Nostratic Language (Wikipedia)

Calvert Watkins' "Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans (American Heritage Dictionary)
The Indo-European Database (Cyril Babaev) - history, chronology, scripts, more--extensive site.
Indo-European Language Tree (Dan Short)

Germanic Languages (Cyril Babaev) - descriptions, map, tree
Tree of Germanic Languages (George Freeman)
Features of Germanic (Richard D. Monoghan) - linguistic features, Grimm's Law
The Lord's Prayer in several Germanic languages (Cathy Ball)
Indo-European Language Resources (Sean Crist) - Gothic, Old English, Old High German glossaries, Tocharian texts and notes, etc.
The Germanic Invasion of Western Europe (University of Calgary)

Old English Pages (Cathy Ball) - texts, fonts, art, links, etc.
Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry - texts of all surviving OE poetry; no translations or recordings
The Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Melissa Bernstein) - Old English sermon with manuscript image, texts, translation; good for learning to read Old English script
Bright's Anglo-Saxon Glossary (Sean Crist)
King Alfred's Old English Grammar - complete OE grammar with modern grammar review, useful exercises
Old English Aloud (Steve Pollington) - texts, readings in OE Poetry - Click on capital letter for sound. RealAudio.
An Online Course in Old English (Murray McGillivray) - pronunciation, grammar, texts, RealAudio recordings; everything you wanted to know about Old English and then some.

Library of On-Line Middle English Texts (Labyrinth) - texts without translations
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse Search Engine (U. of Michigan) - locate words and phrases in ME literary works
The Middle English Compendium (U. of Michigan) - through Cook Library - on-campus access only
Chaucer's Language, Pronunciation, and Vocabulary (Harvard U.) - Explanations, charts, sound recordings of phonemes and texts, grammar of Middle English
The Chaucer MetaPage Audio Files (Alan Baragona) - Professors' readings of Chaucer with 14th-century pronunciation. RealAudio.
TU Chaucer Course Home Page (Edwin Duncan) - texts, audio, links