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Some internet resources
Fonts: For drawing trees on handouts and in papers, I generally use Arboreal, a font for Macintosh or Windows available (for purchase) from Cascadilla Press. It makes drawing trees much quicker once you get the rhythm of it down. For drawing IPA characters, I generally use IPAPhon, which can be downloaded for free. New: Since I have a style for drawing these Arboreal-based trees already, no reason to re-invent the wheel. Feel free to download my ArborealExample document (Microsoft Word format) to see how I do it and/or copy & paste into your own documents. Note that Arboreal is called "ArborWin" on Windows and you may need to fix the fonts if you are looking at this on Windows (the trees are designed using the font name "Arboreal"). There's also a useful tip in there about how to do overstriking in Word.
There are also some other tree-drawing programs out there, although I haven't checked them out too thoroughly. You might see what you think (and let me know):
- phpSyntaxTree. Web page that converts from labeled brackets to a tree graphic, which you should be able to copy and paste into a document.
- TreeForm. For Mac or Windows, a kind of drawing program for trees. Developed at the University of British Columbia. This one is relatively new, and I think it's likely to be the most promising, although I also don't think it's finished and it's not completely clear whether it ever will be. It may work well enough to use, however.
- Trees 3 (for Windows; or Trees 2 for Mac). Developed at U. Penn, something like TreeForm above. This one has been around for a long time. And it's not free. If TreeForm works for you, I'd go with it rather than Trees 3, but you can take a look. Can be fitted with phrase structure grammars to allow generation/checking of trees with real sentences.
- Syntax Student's Companion. A Java applet that lets you draw trees, the same kind of thing as TreeForm and Trees 3. I think it includes a limited phrase-structure grammar component, and this one too has been around for quite a while.
Stephen Crain's language acquisition lab's videos (click on videos link).
Some general linguistics links, including upcoming events (talks, colloquia) in the Boston area, some syntax-related links.
The Lexicon of Linguistics, a really nice searchable database of linguistic terminology.
Blackwell's Linguistics Resource Center. A list of links that I maintain for Blackwell Publishers.
A nice online syntax textbook by Beatrice Santorini.