English Language Research Guide

An audio collection of British accents and dialects.

An encyclopedic guide to the world's languages.

A list of technical terms and their definitions.

From ICE's blurb: “The International Corpus of English (ICE) began in 1990 with the primary aim of collecting material for comparative studies of English worldwide. Twenty-four research teams around the world are preparing electronic corpora of their own national or regional variety of English.” Several corpora, including that of the United States, are available to download from the site.

A linguistics blog covering all sorts of language- related topics. Recent posts cover political headlines, language and technology, and language humor.

Some useful web links compiled by a listserv for linguists. Includes information on writing systems, language families, constructed languages, and more.

I've linked directly to the page on their website which lists specific aspects of linguistics, including such topics as prescriptivism, languages in contact, discourse analysis, machine translation, and more. There is a useful overview article of each topic, with bibliographies.

This freely available resource includes a Middle English dictionary and a bibliography and collection of Middle English works.