Linguistics Links

Professional Organizations

Linguistic Society of America (LSA): Organization "founded... for the advancement of the scientific study of language." Publishes Language.
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): "International scientific and professional society for people working on problems involving natural language and computation." Publishes Computational Linguistics.
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL): "works with language communities worldwide to facilitate language-based development through research, translation, and literacy" Publishes the Ethnologue, a compendium of global language statistics.
American Dialect Society (ADS): "dedicated to the study of the English language in North America"

center for the study of language and information: "...devoted to research in the emerging science of information, computing, and cognition. "
computational semantics laboratory: "...a research group at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University, under Stanley Peters... [working] on a number of projects which involve semantics at the intersection of linguistics and computer science."
languagehat: an interesting blog on all things related to language.
stanford encyclopedia of philosophy: "implements... a "dynamic reference work"... by which the members of an entire discipline [philosophy] can collaboratively maintain a refereed reference work that not only introduces (for beginners) traditional philosophical topics but also tracks (for experts) the new ideas being published on those topics in both fixed and web-based media."
stanford natural language processing group: "The distingushing feature of our approach is the combination of sophisticated and deep linguistic modeling and data analysis with state-of-the-art probabilistic approaches to NLP and machine learning."

ardalambion: The tongues of Arda, J.R.R. Tolkien's invented world.
esperanto: A constructed language developed by L.L. Zamenhof.
omniglot.com: Information about many different kinds of writing systems.
writejapan: Learn to write Japanese kana and kanji.
yamada: The yamada language center at the University of Oregon. Virtual Language Lab.