English Language History Class Resources

For the Baldwin-Woodville High School 2003-2004 Language History Class

Dialect and Linguistics

        Harvard Linguistic Survey


Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

The Chaucer Page

Geoffrey Chaucer Home Page

Chaucer Metapage

Annotated Guide to Online Chaucer Resources

Iliad

          Summaries and notes for The Iliad

           The Low-Down:  Sparknotes Summaries (from the above page)

The Iliad-Web Page Version

Iliad Thinkquest Site

Troy

The Classics Page (Includes cool Iliad resources)



Indo-European

General Overview  (Scientific American Article, 1990)

A History of the English Language

Origin and History of the English Language

Alphabet

Evolution of the Alphabet

Ancient Scripts

Difference Between Written and Spoken Language

Heiroglyphics

Web Guide with Links

Ancient Greek and Latin

Web Resources for Greek and Latin

Computers and Language

Real History of the GUI

On-Line Books and Texts

Bartleby




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