Language

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General

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See Thinking#Language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech

http://www.fun-with-words.com

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/writing-rules-advice-from-the-new-york-times-on-writing-well/

http://joel.is/post/32338258448/5-realisations-that-helped-me-write-regularly

http://blog.nabeelqu.com/post/33557680375/surprisingly-undervalued-books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

Blogs

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

http://elms.wordpress.com/

Linguistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition

Formal language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy - a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. allows the possibility for the understanding and use of a computer science model which enables a programmer to accomplish meaningful linguistic goals systematically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_hierarchy - concerned with the way sentences are constructed from smaller parts, such as words and phrases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subordination_(linguistics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexeme - smallest element that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word - smallest element that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content.

Part of speech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_of_speech - also a word class, a lexical class, or a lexical category, a linguistic category of words (lexical items) defined by the items syntactic or morphological behaviour. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb, among others.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_class
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_class_(linguistics)

Three little words you often see
Are ARTICLES: a, an, and the.

A NOUN's the name of anything,
As: school or garden, toy, or swing.

ADJECTIVES tell the kind of noun,
As: great, small, pretty, white, or brown.

VERBS tell of something being done: 
To read, write, count, sing, jump, or run.

How things are done the ADVERBS tell, 
As: slowly, quickly, badly, well.

CONJUNCTIONS join the words together,
As: men and women, wind or weather.

The PREPOSITION stands before
A noun as: in or through a door.

The INTERJECTION shows surprise
As: Oh, how pretty! Ah! how wise!

to sort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrase

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clause - the smallest grammar unit that can express a complete proposition. typically consists of a subject and a predicate, where the predicate is typically a verb phrase – a verb together with any objects and other modifiers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phraseology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phraseme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistically_Improbable_Phrases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/03/why-i-dont-self-publish.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solecism

http://huh.ideophone.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_path

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimalist_program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_linguistics

http://www.wagsoft.com/PapersHtml/IWPT93/IWPT93.html

Becker's Criterion: "Any theory (or partial theory) of the English Language that is expounded in the English Language must account for (or at least apply to) the text of its own exposition."

Becker's Razor: his final riposte to theoretical linguists: "Elegance and truth are inversely related', after which he finishes with, 'Put that in your phrasal lexicon and invoke it!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_diffusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_leveling

Written language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapheme

Languages

English

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-word-contains-the-five-vowels-a-e-i-o-u-in-the-right-order

http://edl.byu.edu/lexicon

http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

Slang

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Translation

BabelFish.org is a fish that translates speech from one language to another.

EUdict is a collection of online dictionaries for the languages spoken mostly in the European Community. These dictionaries are the result of the work of many authors who worked very hard and finally offered their product free of charge on the internet thus making it easier to all of us to communicate with each other.
dict.cc is not only an online dictionary. It's an attempt to create a platform where users from all over the world can share their knowledge in the field of translations. Every visitor can suggest new translations and correct or confirm other users' suggestions.