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Wikipedia: academic use
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Welcome to the Subject Research Guide for Linguistics and English Language.

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Recommended websites for Linguistics and English Language

British National Corpus
This site provides access to a huge (over 100 million words) of written and spoken English from the late 20th century.
Oxford Text Archive
A searchable repository of literary and linguistics resources.
Sounds familiar? Accents and dialects of the UK
From the British Library, this website provides information and recordings about the variety of accents and dialects in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century. Works in the Chrome web browser.

Dictionary of the Scots Language
Access to two online Scottish language dictionaries: the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (covers the period from the 12th century to 1700) and the more modern Scottish National Dictionary (1700 - 2005). Over 77,000 entries.
Dictionary of Old English
Letters A - I are available online

Middle English Compendium
Access to Middle English electronic resources. Cross search: the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and verse. (Taken from the About Us page)
British Association for Applied Linguistics
Website of a professional association for those with an interest in language and linguistics.
Linguistics Association of Great Britain
Website of a professional association for academic linguistics in Britain. This organisation publishes the Journal of Linguistics which is available electronically for staff and students at the University of Stirling from 1965 to present. To access, search the library catalogue for Journal of Linguistics.
Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
Website of a UK based group which undertakes research in languages.