Professor Barbara Stevenson
Department of English
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA 30144
E-Mail Address: bstevens@kennesaw.edu
Historical Periods of English Varieties of English Web Resources
(The sites listed below link to a few specific documents illustrating the history of the English language through hypertext, images, and/or audio files.)
C. Ball's versions of The Lord's Prayer from Old to Modern English.
J. O'Donnell's collection of images highlighting the history of the book during the Middle Ages.
C. Ball's pages include Hwaet!, an introductory lesson on Old English.
Old English at the University of Virginia
Pronunciation practice with excerpts from such works as Beowulf.
The Electronic Beowulf Project
K. Kiernan's explanation of the project includes a color facsimile of the Beowulf manuscript.
This website includes audiofiles on teaching yourself
Middle English and on Chaucer's
Middle English and language, along
with other information on Chaucer's life, times and works.
These Chaucer Metapages
contain links to audiofiles by experts reading
Chaucer in Middle English.The Metapages
also contain extensive information and links on Chaucer and Middle English.
Luminarium's Renaissance Resources page has several hyperlinks on the printing press and early printed books.
Samples from Romeo and Juliet.
This dictionary links key terms from the Eighteenth Century to excerpts from literature illustrating the terms' multiple connotations.
Includes texts and graphics from this popular Victorian woman's magazine.
George Landow discussing hypertext, the new electronic literacy.
(The sites below discuss or illustrate characteristics of modern English varieties.)
English Around the World (E. L. Easton)
Ethnologue is a metapage on languages, dialects, creoles, and pidgins around the world.
This "ESL for Americans" contains a British-American and American-British dictionary.
An introduction to the atlas, with a focus on the Middle
and
A page with links to pidgins, creoles, Africaans, Dutch, Scots, etc.
(While many sites above are fairly specific, the list below refers to extensive pages.)
This page includes links to the HEL-L discussion group, to the American Dialect Society Page, and to various resources and texts illustrating the history of the English language.
A list of language-related resources with links to dictionaries, professional groups, the WWW Virtual Libraries on language and linguistics, etc.
A (Very) Brief History of the English Language
David Wilton's summary and links on the development of the language from Indo-European up to the present. Vocabulary is particularly emphasized.
Copyright © 1996, Barbara Stevenson
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Homepage: http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~bstevens/