Links
Links
Linguistics on the Internet
The following links provide a selection of websites that may be useful for all kinds of research.
Institute for the German Language in Mannheim
The Institute for the German Language in Mannheim offers a wide range of useful resources on its website. These include, amongst other things, a grammar bibliography and the COSMAS corpus search system.
Grammatical Bibliography Portal
This online portal features a search interface that allows users to systematically search for and find existing literature on any available keyword within the field of grammar.
The IDS Mannheim provides a whole range of different corpora of written language (and also spoken language). These can be searched using the COSMAS system. Once registered, anyone can use these corpora for research purposes; that is, you can search for the usage and frequency of a particular word, phrase, syntactic construction and much more.
German Linguistic Society
The DGfS is the largest linguistics association in Germany. Its website provides information on the *Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft* (ZS), the annual DGfS conference and much more.
Linguistics Online
Linguistics Online is a journal that makes its articles available free of charge on the internet. The topics covered are wide-ranging, including morphology, syntax, pragmatics, historical linguistics and language acquisition.
Dictionaries
germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB
The University of Trier makes various dictionaries available on this portal, including the *Deutsches Wörterbuch* by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and the *Mittelhochdeutsche Handwörterbuch* by Matthias Lexer. These are indispensable for translation work from Middle and Early New High German.
Language history
The Mediavum website offers users useful information on all aspects of the history of language and medieval literature. It includes links to online dictionaries and manuscripts, as well as fonts for the special characters used in Middle High German.
LinguistList
LinguistList provides information on conferences and meetings at home and abroad, publications and much more.