Grammar, Language Arts, Figures of Speech,
Linguistics
A Directory of English Grammar and Language Websites
Figures of speech, literary terms, literary style
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk.Grammar
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Figures of Speech, Types of Figurative Language
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Figures of speech.
Wikipedia entry.
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Oxymoron. A definition
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Roget Thesaurus Classification
Wiktionary
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World Wide Words
Investigating international English from a British standpoint. Topical words, turns of phrase.
About.com
Grammar & Composition, a guide by By Richard Nordquist.
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The Bluebook
Grammar and Punctuation. The Mysteries Revealed
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English as a second language.
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English Software
English writing software, grammar checker and a blog with free writing tips.
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Exercises in grammar, spelling and writing.
BBC
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Grammar on the Web. A Web of On-line Grammars
Links to world languages (Bucknell University, Pennyslvania. US).
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GrammarBook
Rules of grammar, punctuation and capitilization.
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Guide to Grammar and Writing
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Online grammar checks
AbiWordOxford English Dictionaries
A free open source word processing program that includes a grammar checker.
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Language Tool
A free open source grammar checker that is designed to help users identify the most common grammatical mistakes in their text.
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Grammar Slammer
A spelling and grammar checker that uses a taskbar and integrated search to help identify errors in a document.
Ask the Oxford dictionary about questions of grammar and style.
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Punctuation, sentence construction. BBC
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Rhetoric. The Forest of Rhetoric
A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.
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Semantics
Wikipedia
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Syntax
Wikipedia
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Terms and devices of grammar.
Wikipedia
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Wikipedia entries on Grammar.
Grammatical terms and devices.
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Writing for Teens
Techniques, grammar, style from About.com.
Language / Applied language / Linguistics
Abbreviations,
acronyms and initialisms by language.
Wiktionary
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British National Corpus
A "100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
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Ethnologue
A catalogue of over 6700 human languages.
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Glossary of linguistic terms,
by Eugene E. Loos (general editor).
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Human Languages Page
Language, linguistics and literature resources. Listed by country and language. I Love Languages
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Language and identity.
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Language and linguistics web index from The Open Directory Project
Morphology and Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Constructed Languages, Dialectology, Discourse Education, Graphemics and Orthography, Historical Linguistics, etc.
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Languages on the Web
A directory of language-learning websites.
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Lingnet.org
The LingNet web site is a service provided by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. LingNet hosts materials developed at DLI by the Curriculum Development Division.
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Literary terms, rhetorical terms: a glossary.
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Roget Thesaurus Classification.
Wiktionary
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SCIRUS
Scirus is the world's most comprehensive search engine specifically designed for finding highly relevant scientific information. Searches can be restricted by discipline to Languages and linguistics.
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Wiktionary,
a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Latin
Rhetoric
Wiktionary
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British National Corpus
A "100 million word collection of samples of written and spoken language from a wide range of sources, designed to represent a wide cross-section of current British English, both spoken and written.
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Ethnologue
A catalogue of over 6700 human languages.
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Glossary of linguistic terms,
by Eugene E. Loos (general editor).
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Human Languages Page
Language, linguistics and literature resources. Listed by country and language. I Love Languages
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Language and identity.
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Language and linguistics web index from The Open Directory Project
Morphology and Syntax, Sociolinguistics, Constructed Languages, Dialectology, Discourse Education, Graphemics and Orthography, Historical Linguistics, etc.
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Languages on the Web
A directory of language-learning websites.
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Lingnet.org
The LingNet web site is a service provided by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. LingNet hosts materials developed at DLI by the Curriculum Development Division.
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Literary terms, rhetorical terms: a glossary.
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Roget Thesaurus Classification.
Wiktionary
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SCIRUS
Scirus is the world's most comprehensive search engine specifically designed for finding highly relevant scientific information. Searches can be restricted by discipline to Languages and linguistics.
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Wiktionary,
a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations.
Latin
Carmenta Online Latin School
High-quality online Latin classes using live audio and video.This course, taught live by a real teacher in an online web conferencing classroom, is an excellent choice for homeschoolers, people studying in an academic setting where Latin is not offered, people who do not have access to a Latin course where they live, or those for whom the online classroom is more convenient.
High-quality online Latin classes using live audio and video.This course, taught live by a real teacher in an online web conferencing classroom, is an excellent choice for homeschoolers, people studying in an academic setting where Latin is not offered, people who do not have access to a Latin course where they live, or those for whom the online classroom is more convenient.
Linguistics
Center for Applied LinguisticsLiterary terms
CAL carries out a wide range of activities including research, teacher education, analysis and dissemination of information, design and development of instructional materials, technical assistance, conference planning, program evaluation, and policy analysis.
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Historical linguisitics
Historical Linguistics, a web directory from The Open DIrectory project.
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A possible homeland of the Indo-European languages
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Ancient Scripts - Historical Linguistics
Introduction to historical linguistics with language family charts and extensive links list.
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Cameron Laird's Personal Index to Anthropologic Resources on the Net
Two software applications to aid glottochronological and lexostatistical analysis.
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Chronology: History of English
Chronology of Events in the History of English" summarizing the emergence and evolution of the language spanning 5 millennia.
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English from the 7th to the 18th c.
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History of the English Language
A considerable collection of online materials related to the history of English: texts, publications, fonts and course syllabuses.
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Indo-European and the Comparative Method
Everything you ever wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European (and the comparative method), but were afraid to ask.
The Linguist List.
Eastern Michigan University and Wayne State University. A moderated list, with research resources for language and linguistics.
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Linguistics websites, a directory from The Open Directory Project.
European languages and the rising dominance of English.
Language and nationalism, multilingualism. A link directory. World Language Resources. Translators, fonts, spell checkers for hundreds of languages, language learning.
Wikipedia entries on linguistics.
Rhetoric
The Cicero Homepage
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The Forest of Rhetoric, Silva Rhetoricae
Online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.
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Kairos,
a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
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Rhetoric and Composition
A site intended to list a variety of resources useful to rhetoricians.
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Rhetoric. A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
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Rhetoric, by Aristotle.
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Rhetoric Society of America
RSA is a scholarly organization dedicated to studying, teaching, and practicing rhetoric.
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Rhetoric and the Roman Orators
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Wikipedia entry on Rhetoric.