Computer resources for linguists
Some useful links and external websites
Writing
- Departmental recommendations for style in linguistic essays and dissertations
(updated 30 July 2011; also available direct from the link http://tinyurl.com/LEL-style) - Leipzig glossing rules for citing linguistic material with word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translations
Learning
- Glossary of Linguistic terms (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
- Glottopedia, a Wikipedia of linguistics
- Virtual Linguistics Campus (Germany, but in English)
General
- Yahoo Linguistics and Human Languages page
- LINGUIST student portal
- The LINGUIST list home page (Scottish mirror site)
- LINGUIST search of linguistics-related mailing lists archived by LINGUIST and other material on LINGUIST site.
- INTUTE. Search or browse the database of Linguistics resources which have been selected, evaluated and described by subject specialists
- Rutgers Optimality Archive
- OLAC Language Resources Catalogue. 'This catalog, developed by the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), provides access to a wealth of information about thousands of languages, including details of text collections, audio recordings, dictionaries, and software, sourced from dozens of digital and traditional archives.'
Bibliography
- Bibliographie Linguistique Online. 'The database contains all entries of the printed volumes of Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography for the years 1993-1999 and an increasing number of more recent references.'
- Online Contents Linguistik, 'a free of charge service from the Special Collection General Linguistics at Frankfurt University Library. The database contains the tables of contents of more than 300 linguistics journals.'
- Linguistics and Language Behaviour Abstracts, available on-line via JRUL Databases
- MLA International Bibliography. 'The Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography indexes journal articles, books and dissertations from 1926 to the present in academic disciplines such as language, [...] linguistics [...] .' Available on-line via JRUL Databases
- Arts and Humanities Citation Index. In addition to the usual keyword, author or title searches, AHCI allows searches of the references used in papers and so can lead from some seminal or influential publication on a topic to recent work that cites it. AHCI is available on-line as part of Web of Science via JRUL Databases
- zetoc: British Library electronic table of contents, allowing individual e-mail notification of journal ToCs to staff and students in the University
Corpus linguistics
- Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists. An astonishingly full and well-maintained site [at a new address], 'a comprehensive collection of corpus linguists links, compiled by Dr David Lee, now at City University of Hong Kong. The links are annotated and organised in groups such as: Corpora, collections, data archives; Software, tools, frequency lists; References, papers, journals; Teaching and miscellaneous.' (HUMBUL)
- CoRD (Corpus Resource Database), the excellent descriptive database of English-language corpora maintained by the Varieng research unit in Helsinki, including an interactive Corpus Finder
- Michael Barlow's Corpus Linguistics site
- The full text of the book Developing Linguistic Corpora, ed. Martin Wynne of the Arts & Humanities Data Service.
- Linguistic Annotation page of the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania: ''This page describes tools and formats for creating and managing linguistic annotations. 'Linguistic annotation' covers any descriptive or analytic notations applied to raw language data.''
- Corpora and Corpus Annotation Tools page at Ohio State University
- listing of corpus and NLP tools from Stanford
- Software on LINGUIST
English language
- Elly van Gelderen's website associated with her college textbook A History of the English Language (2006)
- HEL on the Web compiled by Ayumi Miura, a recent PhD from Manchester (extraordinarily copious and well maintained)
- Studying the History of English site constructed by Raymond Hickey, at Düsseldorf/Essen
- Studying Varieties of English, also maintained by Raymond Hickey
- Irish English Resource Centre, Raymond Hickey
- Diary Research Website. Information and bibliography on edited English-language diaries from all periods and regions of English
Societies
- ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English)
- IPA (International Phonetic Association)
- ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English)
- LAGB (Linguistics Association of Great Britain)
- Philological Society
- Societas Linguistica Europaea
Where to go for help
For IT Service Desk: use their web submission form, available from http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/contacts/, phone (0161-30)65544, or go in person in the John Rylands Library at the top of the escalator in the Blue 1 area or Renold Building room B28.
Please send suggestions or comments on these computer resource pages to David Denison.
This page last updated 9 Apr 2012.