Benjamin Slade 

Postgraduate Student in Linguistics (ABD)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



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Dept. of Linguistics
University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
4080 Foreign Languages Building
707 South Mathews Avenue, MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801 USA

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Research Interests:

  • Historical Linguistics and Philology
  • Formal Syntax and Semantics
  • Indo-Aryan and Germanic linguistics
  • West Indian Creoles and "Dread Talk"
  • Ancient Indo-European languages, literatures, and mythologies

Education

--Philosophia Doctor, pursuing : Linguistics - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
     [2005- ]
            Dissertation: The history of Q---aspects of the diachrony of interrogatives, indefinites, relatives in Sinhala and other languages
            Primary Advisor: Prof. Hans Henrich Hock


--Master of Arts, 2008 : Linguistics - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

--Visiting Scholar : Dept. of Linguistics - North-Eastern Hill University [NEHU]
     [2004]

--Master of Arts, 2005 : Cognitive Science - Johns Hopkins University
     [1999-2001]
            Primary Advisor: Prof. Luigi Burzio

--Bachelor of Arts, 1999 : English Studies - Johns Hopkins University   [minor studies in  Classics & Linguistics]
     [1995-1999]
             Undergraduate Advisor: Prof. Allen Grossman

 Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards

Publications

Papers in Progress

Presentations

Teaching

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Web-Links of Interest


Linguistics resources:
LingBuzz - online archive of linguistics papers
The Linguist List -
compendium of general linguistic resources [Eastern Michigan Uni. / Wayne State Uni.]
Language Log -
Weblog run by University of Pennsylvania phonetician Mark Liberman, with multiple guest linguists


LaTeX resources for linguists:
LaTeX Community Forum - great general LaTeX resource

The LaTeX for Linguists Home Page[Essex University]
Ling-TeX more LaTeX linguistics resources[University of Oslo]
TeX/LaTeX Information for linguists [University of Pennsylvania]
LaTeX for Linguists: the UCSC version [University of California at Santa Cruz]
LaTeX for Classical Philologists and Indo-Europeanists

Some useful things for using LaTeX as a linguist [Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University]
Doing Linguistics in LATEX: a fairly quick introduction [Paul Hagstrom, Boston University]

LaTeX Font Catalogue
TIPA manual (1.3)
Comprehensive LaTex symbol list

Beamer - LaTeX class for creating presentations

linguex - Wolfgang Sternefeld's linguistics examples package

TeXworks - LaTeX editor (unicode-enabled) [Windows, Linux, Mac]
JabRef - BibTeX editor [Windows, Linux, Mac]

UIUC LaTeX template for dissertations [Dept. of Physics]

Indo-European resources:
Linguistic Research Center - set of useful resources for Indo-European [Uni-Texas at Austin]

Indo-European Language resources -
resources are mostly on the Germanic languages, also Latin, Old Irish, Tocharian A, and Tocharian B [Uni-Pennsylvania, Sean Crist]

J. Pokorny's Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch online

Indo-European Etymology database

(Proto)-Germanic Etymology database

Indo-Aryan Resources:
Rig Veda in devanagari [Profs. Kashyap & Sadagopan, Bangalore]

TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien) Index -
wonderful digital versions of Indo-European texts (e.g. Rgveda) and many related resources

flaez Rgveda -
romanised Rgveda text, with samhitapata/padapatha and clickable vocabulary

Rgveda - metrically restored text [Barend A. van Nooten & Gary B. Holland with Karen Thomson & Jonathan Slocum, Uni-Texas at Austin]

Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary - searchable version [Universität zu Köln]

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia -
online dictionaries of many Indian/South Asian languages, including Platt's Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English  and  Turner's Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Nepali
[Digital South Asia Library, Uni. of Chicago]


Jambudvipa - Indology & Sanskrit-
Indological and Indology Related Resources: a Vademecum for the Indologist, the Sanskrit Scholar & the Amateur of Ancient & Classical Indian Culture [Paolo Magnone, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Milano (Catholic University of Milan)]

Bangani Page -
data and commentary on the discovery of kentum elements in the (satem) Indo-Aryan language Bangani, comments from Claus-Peter Zoller, Anvita Abbi, Gabar Singh Chauhan, & others [Uni. of Michigan, Peter Hook]

Bibliography for seldom studied and endangered South Asian Languages -[John Peterson, Uni. of Osnabruck]

Hindi Language Resources -
online resources [Colorado State Uni.,Yashwant K. Malaiya]


Hindi Corner -
many useful resources & links for learning Hindi & also Devanagari script [Hugo Coolens]

Urdu Page -
useful resources & links for learning Urdu & Arabic script [Hugo Coolens]

Central Institute of Indian Languages

Technology Development for Indian Languages -
[Dept. of Information Technology, Gov't of India]


Electronic Critical Mahabharata -
electronic text of the Poona critical edition [John Smith et al. (Cambridge Uni.) & Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Pune)]

Germanic resources:
Septentrionalia library (the mediaeval north) - repository of many important texts in pdf format

ANSAX - Anglo-Saxon/Old English listserver

Old Norse News - news, announcements and resources for mediaeval Scandinavian studies

Awritan on Englisc -
      forum for Old English composition
          (see also Tidunga on Englisce - The New Anglo-Saxon Chronicles , the news in Old English)


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Updated 15-February-2010



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