English Linguistics->Syntax->Scholar

This site is the hompage of David Adger, an associate professor of linguistics at the School of Queen Mary, University of London. This site provides not only his course descriptions but also various resources on syntax. His books, book chapters, & edited volumes, journal articles, and other documents (conference papers, reviews, reports) are also included. His hompage consists of his biography, publications, research interests, and current teaching.

Among many personal websites famous for syntax, this homepage has the largest amount of syntax sources. Above all, it is directly linked to the syntax archive, so readers can use the sources conveniently.

This site was last updated on 29 September 2008.

URL : http://alpha.qmul.ac.uk/%7Emlw011/index.htm

Keyword(s) : syntax, David Adger

English Linguistics->Phonology->Scholar

This is the personal web site of Alan Prince, a professor of linguistics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The author's main focus is on phonology and optimality theory. This site provides the author's current classes, course descriptions and his research interests.

Alan Prince introduces not only his current works but also many articles and papers. This web site provides a lot of texts on the optimality theory. He also lets visitors download PDF or PPT files for his presentations at many linguistic conferences. This homepage mainly deals with his theses and seminar reports.

Although Alan Prince provides a lot of precious phonological resources, articles, and papers, the offered information can be difficult for beginners or students who have no interest in phonology. However, the author's contributions in linguistics are so outstanding and appreciable that students need to visit his homepage and read the provided articles.

(Last reviewed July 5, 2007.)

URL : http://ling.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/prince.html

Keyword(s) : Prince, optimality theory, phonology

English Linguistics->Syntax->Journal

Snippets is an e-journal provided by Led on Line: Electronic Archive of Academic and Literary Texts, which publishes works related to the study of syntax and semantics in generative grammar.

The "notes" (as they are referred to on the website) that are published in Snippets are no longer than 1 to 3 pages each. These notes are not just articles on a certain topic that the reader will find in any journal of linguistics; rather, they have the specific objective to call attention to those areas that are considered to be problematic, inconsistent, unobserved, or forgotten in the literature. Therefore, they are very interesting and provide new and diverse insights into existing topics. As stated on the website, these notes take their form from the early squibs published in the "Linguistic Inquiry." Notes are published twice a year, and all the notes are downloadable in PDF format. Some of the editors include such scholars as Danny Fox (MIT) and Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University).

This site is excellent for those who seek for interesting, short articles on syntax and semantics within the generative grammar framework.

URL : http://www.ledonline.it/snippets/index.html

Keyword(s) : Snippets, e-journal, syntax, semantics

English Linguistics->General Studies of Linguistics->Publisher

This website provides a highly efficient linguistics lexicon maintained by Utrecht University, Netherland. Readers can find most of the general terminology used in linguistics on this site.

There are several ways to look up a linguistics-related word on this site. The reader can either directly type a certain keyword in the blank, on the left-side of the page or look up words by browsing through an alphabetical list, which is also located on the left part of the page. Once the reader looks up a word, a general definition, examples, and also related references appear on the screen. Therefore, the reader can get general information on the word itself, plus additional information on the references of the word, where the reader can get more in-depth knowledge on the word and pertaining subjects. Furthermore, there are links within definitions of words so that when a reader does not know some of the terminology used in the definition of a certain word, the reader can click on the link to look up the definition of that particular word. Moreover, there are links not only to words but also to other websites, news articles, and so forth that are related to the keyword. All in all, this is a very comprehensive site that provides a great abundance of information, and not merely simple definitions of linguistics-related words.

This site is very useful for anyone who wishes to get information on a linguistics-related word. It is very user-friendly, simple, and easy to use.

This site was last updated in 2001.

(Last reviewed July 5, 2007)

URL : http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/

Keyword(s) : lexicon , linguistics

English Linguistics->Language Acquisition->In-depth study

This website introduces a research group which is called "Language Acquisition Group." The Language Acquisition Group investigates acquisition processes in a variety of different languages and compares acquisition stages in first language acquisition with those in second or third language acquisition. The ongoing projects are mainly divided into three parts: event representation, the comparative study of L2 acquisition, and the dynamics of multilingual processing. This website provides detailed information on each project and related research questions and involved faculty. However, some of the links (Introduction to Event Representation project) are not activated. Despite this fact, this website is quite informative in general.

People who are interested in studies on language acquisition, or who want to get some research ideas on language acquisition might take advantage of this website. Both L1 and L2 are investigated in this research group, so this site gives useful information.

(Lastly reviewed July 5, 2007.)

URL : http://www.mpi.nl/research/groups/LanguageAcquisition

Keyword(s) : psycholinguistics, language acquisition