Category:Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician.

I am very interested in this field, but more of as a hobby than as a career. In any case, I will document what I learn about this field in this category.

I also speak a few languages and am learning more. Below is a list of the languages I speak either fluently or with a working knowledge (and continually improving):

• English (mother-tongue)
• German (college level)
• Spanish (college level)

Web phrases

hacks 

ad hoc implementations

Web 3.0 

semantic web

screen scraping 

a technique in which a computer program extracts text data from the display output of another program (see: "web scraping")

idempotent 

(adj) describing an action which, when performed multiple times, has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed

External links

• AskOxford — a free online dictionary resource from OUP
• Linguistic Data Consortium
• The Link Grammar Parser — a syntactic parser of English, based on link grammar, an original theory of English syntax.
• The Latin Library
• Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice
• Wortschatz — Search in 17 Corpus-Based Monolingual Dictionaries (by the Universität Leipzig)
• UniLang Wiki — a database of language- and linguistic-related information
• WebCorp — The Web as a Corpus

Wikipedia articles on Linguistics

• Linguistics
• Oxford spelling
• N-gram
• Category:Latin_phrases
• List of Latin abbreviations
• Latin declension
• Category:English words spelled with diacritics or ligatures
• Concordancer
• KWIC
• AntConc — a freeware concordance program for Linux developed by Laurence Anthony.

UTF-8

• The Unicode Character Code Charts By Script
• Unicode (UTF-8) test
• UTF-8 encoded sample plain-text file — original by Markus Kuhn, adapted for HTML by Martin Dürst.
• test page for UNICODE UTF-8 encoding — no longer maintained.
• wikipedia:UTF-8