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 the webmaster (at) linguistic-typology.org. A short annotation would be helpful and appreciated.
Links to sites that focus on a particular area, language family or specific languages
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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.
- MIT dSpace. Has non-printable .pdf:s of all (I think) MIT PhD theses.
- The Universals Archive at the Univerity of Konstanz.
- 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.
- 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.
- Free online browsing of books published by John Benjamins. Ebrary Reader required, follow the link on the browsing site if you don't have this plug-in already.
- Free online browsing of books published by Cambridge University Press. Ebrary Reader required.
- Foundation for Endangered Languages.
- L
& C Field Manual and Stimulus Archives by
the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
This site contains a bonanza of material for the field elicitation of semantics and and the field collection of verbal behaviour. These are unique resources that have been compiled over nearly twenty years of investigation of under-studied languages by the Language & Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. For years these Field Manuals have been available on demand, but they have now been put online, and this site will serve as the central repository for both older manuals as well as new ones currently under development. Free registration is required to access the materials - (MILB) (Muenchener InterLinear-Text Bibliothek): among other things text samples from some 35 languages.
- UCP (University of California Press). Free e-books of the latest titles.
- The Linguistic Association of Great Britain.
- 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.
- SIL. The various SIL branches have made a wealth of material accessible in recent years.
- Robert Beard's pages are a rich source for on-line dictionaries and grammars.
- Ljuba Veselinova's home page has links to several linguistic resources, of special interest is a page with links dealing with mapping resources.
- Gallica. Has lots of material from around the turn of the century esp. in French.
- (TITUS) (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien).
- 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
- Two (online grammars) Udi and Lak (East Caucasian)
- Monumenta Altaica/. Lots of books mainly in Russian on Altaic languages and comparative linguists.
- A growing collection of dictionaries, books and articles on historical/comparative linguistics at Nostratica. Site in Russian, downloads in various languages.
- Leiden dSpace. Has a bunch of PhD thesis, notably of African languages.
- Malagasy language and linguistics bibliography.
- PARADISEC. Page by page browsing of Capell's fieldnotes! More about to be added. Registering necessary (I think).
- 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).
- Society for the study of the Indigenous Languages of America.
- 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.
- 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.
- Biblioteca Curt Nimuendaju. Rapidly expanding site with Amazonian, esp. Je, language materials. Highlight is Mamiani's hard-to-find arte of Kiriri.
- 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.
- University of Oregon has the extensive early 20th century works on the indigenous Oregon languages.
Some unannotated
links:http://www.ipra.be/ (International Pragmatics Association -- IPrA)
http://linguistic-discovery.dartmouth.edu/WebObjects/Linguistics.woa
http://www.lingolym.org/
http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/WAC/Papers/TypProbs.pdf
http://www.ling.su.se/staff/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://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/