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Useful links

Here are some links to various web resources dealing with Germanic linguistics and related areas: 

Associations

Germany

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung
Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache
Gesellschaft für Semantik
Generative Grammatik des Südens
Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer
Deutscher Terminologie - Tag
Internationale Gesellschaft für Dialektologie des Deutschen
Studienkreis `Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft'
Gesellschaft für Linguistische Datenverarbeitung
Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft
Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen

Austria

Verband für angewandte Linguistik

Switzerland

Schweizerische Sprachwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft
Vereinigung für Angewandte Linguistik in der Schweiz

Netherlands

Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics
International Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek

Scandinavian countries

Nordic Association of Linguists
Dansk Translatørforbund
Íslenska málfræðifélagsins (Icelandic Linguistic Society)

International

Society for Germanic Linguistics
Canadian Association of University Teachers of German
Society for Mediaeval Languages and Linguistics
Viking Society for Northern Research
International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics
Gesellschaft für Terminologie und Wissenstransfer (Association for Terminology and Knowledge Transfer)
Association for Linguistic Typology
International Association of Applied Linguistics
International Phonetic Association
International Commission on Second Language Acquisition
International Pragmatics Association
Linguistic Society of America
Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States
Modern Language Association of America
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)

Europe

Societas Linguistica Europaea
European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning
European Second Language Association
European Association for Lexicography
European Society of Phraseology
European Society for Translation Studies
Student Organization of Linguists in Europe
Generative Linguistics in the Old World
Association of Language Testers in Europe

UK and Ireland

Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland
Association for Low Countries Studies in Great Britain and Ireland
Linguistics Association of Great Britain
Philological Society
British Association for Applied Linguistics
United Kingdom Cognitive Linguistics Association
Henry Sweet Society (history of linguistic thought)
Institute of Translation and Interpreting

Resources

German

Institut für Deutsche Sprache
GermaNet
DWDS Corpus of Modern German
Project Gutenberg- DE (electronic texts)
TIGER Project (German annotated texts)
NEGRA Corpus (annotated German newspaper texts)
Tübingen Treebank of Written German
Deutsch Diachron Digital
Online Computational Linguistics Demos
LEO Online German-English Dictionary
Deutscher Wortschatz Online
Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Institut für niederdeutsche Sprache
Contemporary Germany Online

Dutch

Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie
ANS grammar online
Database of Dutch dialects (DynaSAND)
Nederlandse Taalunie
Digital Library of Dutch Literature

Scandinavian languages

NorDokNet: Nordic network of documentation centres for results in language technology research
Project Runeberg (Nordic literature online)
Norsk språkråd (Norwegian Language Council)
Oslo Corpus of Tagged Norwegian Texts
Bank of Swedish
Swedish Treebank
Swedish Spoken Language Corpus
Icelandic Language Institute

Luxembourgish

Centre for Luxembourg Studies (Sheffield)

Frisian

Fryske Akademy

Others

European Centre for Modern Languages
European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages
IGLO (Intercomprehension in Germanic Languages Online)
European Language Resources Association
Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure
EuroWordNet
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
Research in Modern Languages in the UK
University Council of Modern Languages
Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research

Journals

Journal of Germanic Linguistics
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics
Linguistische Berichte
Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
German as a Foreign Language
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
neerlandistiek.nl (electronic journal for Dutch language and literature)
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics

Miscellaneous

Research in Germanic Studies
Germanic Generative Syntax Newsletter
Neder-L (Electronic Dutch Studies Newsletter)
Verein Deutsche Sprache
Links to Scandinavian language resources
Frisian links
Afrikaans links
Virtual Linguistics Campus
Language Conference List
Linguistic Bibliography Online
The Linguist List


If you discover problems with any of these links, or wish to suggest any other links that should be added, please contact Paul.Bennett@manchester.ac.uk