Interesting links
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This page provides annotated links to web sites of interest to linguists, especially to typologists. If you know of other web sites that could be listed here, please mail them to ljuba at ling.su.se. A short annotation would be helpful and appreciated.
- Gallica. Has lots of material from around the turn of the century esp. in French.
- Melbourne Eprints/ has a few PhD theses notably South Efate and Kuuk Thayorre
- Sydney eScholarship repository has a few PhD theses notably Menggwa Dla and the long sought after (at least for me) Anindilyakwa thesis (Warning: the description of the morphology covers 500 pages).
- Google books. Note: To see all books you must surf through an US ip number. Has hundreds of books and a few periodicals from around the turn of the century, notably lots of SPCK books and most of the NE Africa collections associated with Reinisch.
- Leiden dSpace. Has a bunch of PhD thesis, notably of African languages.
- MIT dSpace. Has non-printable .pdf:s of all (I think) MIT PhD theses.
- LOT Dissertations. Has a multitude of Dutch theses including some killer material on hard-to-find-data Amazonian languages.
- Biblioteca Digital UNICAMP. Has a bunch of recent theses (also MA) on Amazonian languages in portguese. Includes killer material on hard-to-find-data languages. Free registering necessary.
- Canadiana. Allows page by page browsing of most things published in Canada before 1900 or so. Notably algonquian languages and amateur works on the chinook jargon.
- Papuaweb. A bunch of theses and books on Papuan languages. Including the Wurm 1975 book. Anyone not downloading and reading this book should be ashamed of themsleves.
- Monumenta Altaica/. Lots of books mainly in Russian on Altaic languages and comparative linguists.
- University of Michigan. Curiously has lots of philippine language grammars but also other grammars and dictionaries from around the world. Only page by page browsing.
- University of Oregon has the extensive early 20th century works on the indigenous Oregon languages.
- UCP. Free e-books of the latest titles.
- Biblioteca Curt Nimuendaju. Rapidly expanding site with Amazonian, esp. Je, language materials. Highlight is Mamiani's hard-to-find arte of Kiriri.
- PARADISEC. Page by page browsing of Capell's fieldnotes! More about to be added. Registering necessary (I think).
- SIL. The various SIL branches have made a wealth of material accessible in recent year. Notably lots of Papuan materials and almost all of the Peru catalogue.
- Malagasy language and linguistics bibliography.
- The Universals Archive at the Univerity of Konstanz.
- Robert Beard's pages are a rich source for on-line dictionaries and grammars.
- Johanna Laakso's Finno-Ugric pages are a good starting point for further Finno-Ugric surfing. She also suggested the pages of ??, probably the most important FU publisher (with TOCs of all publications starting from the late 1800s.
- Foundation for Endangered Languages.
- Society for the study of the Indigenous Languages of America.
- Intercontinental Dictionary Series (IDS) (general editor: Prof. Dr. Mary R. Key).
- Linguistics Abstracts, available in full online (15 years of fully searchable material) at the Linguistic Resource Centre of Blackwell Publishers.
- The Linguistic Association of Great Britain.
- Ethonologue -- an HTML version of the Ethnologue, an index to the languages of the world, maintained by the Summer Institute of Linguistics. This database contains variant names of languages, genetic relations between languages and a number of other data, such as geographical location and number of speakers.
- Lyuba Veselinova's home page has links to several linguistic resources, of special interest is a page with links dealing with mapping resources.
- (TITUS) (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien).
- (MILB) (Muenchener InterLinear-Text Bibliothek): among other things text samples from some 35 languages.
- Two (online grammars) Udi and Lak (East Caucasian)
Some unannotated links:
http://www.ipra.be/ (International Pragmatics Association -- IPrA)
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/
http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu/WebObjects/Linguistics.woa
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/sprachbau.htm
http://ling.uni-konstanz.de:591/universals/introrara.html
http://www.lingolym.org/
http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/WAC/Papers/TypProbs.pdf
http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/wals/
http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/atlas
http://bamse.ling.su.se/~ljuba/maps.html
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~autotyp/
http://www-ot.stanford.edu/ot/
http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/database
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~ehume/metathesis/
http://136.159.142.10:591/INDEX.HTM
http://www.smg.surrey.ac.uk/
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/pil/stresstyp/stresstyp.html
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html
http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/td/
http://www.typologie.cnrs.fr/pages/01a_missions.htm
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/spls/
http://www.terralingua.org/
http://www.rosettaproject.org/live
http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/lmd/cals.htm
http://www.zompist.com/numbers.shtml
http://www.language-archives.org/
Further resources are listed at, among myriads other meta-addresses of this type:
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/
http://www-nlp.stanford.edu/links/linguistics.html
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/linguist/