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General Resources: Grammar and History of Language

[General] [Latin] [Italian & Sardic] [French] [Occitan] [Catalan [Spanish] [Portuguese] [Dutch] [German]

General:

The Ethnologue Database: Based on Barbara F. Grimes (ed.), Ethnologue: The Languages of the World, 12th edition, 1992
The Linguist Network:
TITUS: Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien

Latin:

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (James O'Donnell)
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (Part of Project Libellus, incomplete)
Dale A. Grote, Study Guide to Wheelock
James P. H. Fuller, Latin language studies (with downloadable tables for inflection of verbs, nouns and pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and numerals)
Martin Irvine, Introduction to Medieval Latin
Lynn Nelson, Latin Grammar Aid (alternative site: click here
Jim Marchand, Roots of Latin (alternative site click here
Peter Stotz, Die lateinische Sprache im Mittelalter, original German version of id., Le sorti del latino nel medioevo, in: AA.VV., Lo spazio letterario del medioevo, 1: Il medioevo latino, Direttori: Guglielmo Cavallo, Claudio Leonardi, Enrico Menestò, vol. II: La circolazione del testo, Roma: Salerno Editrice, 1994, p.153-190
Appendix Probi (extracts by Jean-Luc Brazeau)
Donatus, Ars minor (provided by Jim Marchand)
Isidore, Etymologiae I, xxvii: De orthographia (ed. W. M. Lindsay, Oxford 1911)
Exercitium Puerorum Grammaticale per dietas distributum (Köln 1499) (provided by Kenneth Mayer)

Italian & Sardic:

Giulio Lughi, Pagine interattive di grammatica italiana (alternative site click here)
Massimo Bertoldi, L'albero della grammatica
Esa Turtiainen, Verbi (italiani) irregolari
Giovanni Lancillotti, I principj della lingua italiana (1775), unformatted textfile (99 kb) supplied by LiberLiber / Manuzio Project
Bruno Migliorini, Breve profilo storico dell'ortografia italiana, in: Grafica 1 (1991), p.767-771
Edgar Radtke, Süditalien - Dialekte im Wandel, in: Forschungsmagazin "Ruperto Carola" 3 (1994)
Ursula Neureiter, Homepage, contains among other things:
I dialetti italiani:
Manuel Alvar, Ispanismi nel dialetto napoletano
Riccardo Grazioli, Verbal Concision in Piedmontese Ballad Texts: the Use of the Vocative, in: ITEM / Bulletin of Italian Ethnomusicology, Number 2 (November 1994)
Riccardo Grazioli, «s'» and «r'» in Northern Italian Ballad Texts, in: ITEM / Bulletin of Italian Ethnomusicology, Number 3 (February 1995)
Further resources for Italian dialects are listed under Dictionaries and Wordlists and under Dictionaries of Proverbs and Citations
Giovanni Adamo, La terminologia tecnico-scientifica in lingua italiana: Alcune osservazioni sulla terminologia dell'informatica
Maurizio Codogno, Il gergo telematico (c1995)
Guido Mensching, Die sardische Sprache, extract from id., Einführung in die sardische Sprache, 2. Aufl., Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 1994

French:

Joseph Reisdoerfer, BABEL -- Cours de linguistique diachronique du français (with the manuscripts, transcriptions and translations of the Serments de Strasbourg and the Cantilène de sainte Eulalie) [alternative French site, slow access]
Marc Bizer, Petit guide de la langue du XVIe siècle ("le moyen français")
T. Russon Wooldridge, Le lexique français de la Renaissance dans les textes et dans les dictionnaires
Henriette Walter, Brève histoire de la langue française
Robert Peckham, Une histoire de la langue française
Petite histoire de la langue française
Les grandes dates de la langue française
Bill Griffin, The French Page:
- History of the French Language
- French Grammar Review
- French Critical Vocabulary (mots de liaison, phrases d'introduction, phrases et conjonctions de cause)
Remi Jolivet & Christophe Pythoud, Cours de phonétique
Achim Stein, Zur Valenz komplexer Prädikate am Beispiel deutscher und französischer Verb-Substantiv-Verbindungen, announced as forthcoming in Gertrud Gréciano, & Helmut Schumacher (eds.), Lucien Tesnière: Syntaxe structurale et opérations mentales. Akten des deutsch-französischen Kolloquiums anläßlich der 100. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstages, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996 (= Linguistische Arbeiten)
Achim Stein & Helmut Schmid Étiquetage morphologique de textes français avec un arbre de décisions , announced as forthcoming in Traitement automatique du langage 36,1-2 [numéro spécial "Traitements probalistes et corpus"], 1995
Achim Stein, Maschinenlesbare Textkorpora für das Französische
La page de la langue wallone
La langue des canadiens
Kelly Jo Garner, Intro to Louisiana French Creole
David Schah, Die Tradition der normativen Lexikologie in Frankreich

Occitan:

Mattiàs Van Den Bossche, Occitan Language Page, contains among other things:
- Qualquas nocions d'Occitan (A Short Occitan Tutorial)
- Occitan Linguistics

Catalan:

Marta Ribas, Catalan

Spanish:

Ricardo Soca, La Página del Idioma Español -- Las normas del Español actual
Juan Manuel Soto, Gramática y ortografía española
Juan Ramón de Arana, Ejercicios de la gramática española
Vademécum del español urgente
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galician Language Introductory Page

Portuguese:

Adelardo de Medeiros et al., The Portuguese Language (Portuguese version: A Língua Portuguesa)
Dario Teixeira, Short Portuguese Lessons

Dutch:

Integral Dutch Course

German:

Germanic Languages (language tree)
Mark Whitaker, The Internet Handbook of German Grammar
Gary Smith, Introductory German Grammar
Universität Essen, Grundkurs Mediävistik Teil II: Grammatik (MHG, with exercises and e-texts)
Wolfgang Näser, Gedanken und Daten zur Dialektologie
Wolfgang Näser, Beispiele deutscher Mundarten
Georg Wenker, Das rheinische Platt (1877) (supplied by Wolfgang Näser)
Klaus M. Zimmer, Die bairische Sprache und ihre Dialekte
Thomas Kemmer, Swabian into English
Berlin Handbuch: Berlinisch
Mark Twain, The Awful German Language [alternative site: click here]

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