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The Germanic Lexicon Project (formerly the Indo-European Language resources page) is an online collection of lexicons of the early Germanic languages. The Web site provides free access to an impressive number of copyright-expired language reference publications related to these language, either as digitized texts (encoded using HTML or XML) or as scanned page images. The project is ongoing, and the site's author invites users to participate in the digitization process by correcting individual pages (full instructions on how to participate are provided): consequently, the project is developing into an important international collaboration. The grammars, dictionaries, glossaries and readers available at the time of cataloguing, in various forms, covered the following languages: Gothic; Anglo-Saxon; Old and Middle High German; Old Saxon, Old Frisian; and Old Norse. Resources for the linguistic study of Latin, Old Irish and Tocharian are also available. Background information for each publ

The Oxford Text Archive hosts the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Centre for Literature, Languages and Linguistics, one of the five Subject Centres of the AHDS. The Archive holds several thousand digital resources of interest to researchers, teachers, and learners working across the range of literary and linguistic disciplines. Its holdings include electronic editions of works by individual authors, standard reference works, and a range of language corpora. Searches can be executed by author, title, or language, and other criteria will be added over time. Users can also use these criteria to browse the catalogue. The resource is freely available. The Archive also provides support for the creation and use of electronic texts, including guides to good practice, and advice and tools for using the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines for encoding texts in SGML and XML. The Oxford Text Archive receives funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Description based

When Ben Jonson immortalized Shakespeare as one who was "not of an age but for all time," he never could have imagined the shapes, forms, and local habitations Shakespeare would take on through the ages. Transmedial Shakespeare will investigate some of those shapes and forms and will provide an overview of some of the modes of existence of Shakespeare as both textual artifact and cultural icon.

The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.

This useful online guide to Renaissance pronunciation is provided by John M. Vinopal as part of his Renaissance Faire homepage. Categories include: Pronunciation; Pronunciation Drills; Vocabulary; Grammar; Forms of Address; Insults and Cursing; and Songs of the Times. The brief pronunciation tutorial and pronunciation guide both feature sound files in a selection of formats and, although the songs page is text only, it does contain a reasonable selection for an introduction to the Renaissance balla

Entrepreneurial linguists Judy and Dagmar Jenner blog about their multinational languages business and share useful tips and insight into the translation and interpreting business

Blog dedicato a Emma Smith (aka Lady Smith; 1800-1842) and Mary Gosling (aka Emma Austen-Leigh; 1801-1876)

Stanford University Charles Dickens & Arthur Conan Doyle digital projects.