Benjamin Slade 

Postgraduate Student in Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

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Education

--Philosophia Doctor, pursuing : Linguistics - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
     [2005- ]
            Primary Advisor: Prof. Hans Henrich Hock

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

--Master of Arts, 2005 : Cognitive Science - Johns Hopkins University
     [1999-2001]
Master's thesis: = How to Rank Constraints: constraint conflict, grammatical competition and the rise of periphrastic do.
   revised as a chapter in Optimality Theory and Language Change [see below]

                                                      [an Optimality-Theoretic account of the syntactic development of ' do -support' in English]
           primary supervisor: Prof. Luigi Burzio


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

undergraduate linguistics research paper = Constraint Interaction in Historical Linguistics, or, Vakparivartabalavirodhavijnaanam
                     
[an Optimality-Theoretic account of the phonological development of Modern Indo-Aryan (Hindi) from Old Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit)]

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Web-Links of Interest

A reader in 19th-c. historical linguistics -
  Lehmann's collection of seminal texts in historical linguistics
  (Sir William Jones, Jacob Grimm, Sievers, de Saussaure, &c.) available online [Dept. Ling., Uni.-Texas (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]

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]

Scripts of All Asia -
[Eden Golshani]

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

The Linguist List -
compendium of general linguistic resources [Eastern Michigan Uni. / Wayne State Uni.]
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

J. Pokorny's Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch online


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, Universitą 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]

Samskrita Bhaaratii - Speak Sanskrit Movement  

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

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


                                      
Caedmon's Hymn
 'Cędmon's Hymn', ca. 670 A.D. (?) 
 Gayatri Mantra (from _Rg Veda_)
Gayatri mantra, ca. 1500 B.C. (?)
colourless green ideas sleep furiously











Updated 29-March-2008