Scott DeLancey's Linguistics (and related) Links

WWW sites of interest

• U of Oregon Linguistics

  UO Linguistics

  The University of Oregon Linguistics Department Home Page. Info on faculty, courses, events, etc.

  POLYPHONIA:

  Functional and Cognitive Approaches to Linguistics and Languages

  Yamada Language Center

  Has a large library of fonts.

  
  

• Other linguistic resources

  The Linguist List

  Absolutely the place to start, for addresses, links, everything connected with the field.

  Language & Language Family Information

  The Linguist List's list of language & language family Web sites

  STEDT

  Jim Matisoff's Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project

  Less Commonly Taught Languages

  Where in North America you can study Tibetan, Thai, Tlingit, whatever

  SSILA

  the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas website. Has a very useful index of teaching materials for Native American languages.

  Native People's Languages

  Useful list of links, including lots of Tribal programs and resources, from "People's Paths"

  Ethnologue

  The 13th edition (1996) of the Ethnologue

  Living Languages of the Americas

  at the Summer Institute of Linguistics site; combines information from the Ethnologue and the SIL bibliography.

  Association for Linguistic Typology

  International Clearinghouse for Endangered Languages Newsletter

  "The metaphor web site"

  Metaphor and Metonymy Group at Nottingham

  Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development (Mahidol University, Thailand)

  The major locus of research on minority languages in Thailand.

  Linguistics, Thammasat University

  The oldest Linguistics department in Thailand has a Web page.

  Margie Chan's ChinaLinks page

  Most comprehensive list I know of links to sites dealing with Chinese language and linguistics.

  
  

• Non-linguistic pages

  • Tibet and Tibetan Studies

    Tibetan Resources at Yamada

    Fonts, plus a nice list of links, from the Yamada Language Center

    Tibet

    Australian National University index to scholarly resources

    Free Tibet

    There's lots of Web-space devoted to Tibetan resistance and related political issues; here's the place to start.

    
    

  • First Nations studies and issues

    Nancy Thomas's "People's Paths home page"

    includes Paths to Tribes & Nations, a list of links to (mostly) North American Tribal pages, and a page of links to teaching and other materials on Tribal languages

    Center For World Indigenous Studies' Fourth World Documentation Project

    THE FOURTH WORLD DOCUMENTATION PROJECT, organized by the Center For World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) in 1992, attempts to document and make available to tribal governments, researchers and organizations, important documents relating to the social, political, strategic, economic and human rights situations being faced by Fourth World nations and create a historical archive of the political struggles waged by Indigenous Peoples to assert their rights as sovereign nations. The FWDP gathers documents from nations and organizations around the world and processes them into electronic text for distribution on the Internet.

    Indigenous Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library

    From the Center For World Indigenous Studies in conjunction with the Australian National University's Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library.

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