Links

Note: this page is work-in-progress!

General linguistic matters

The Linguist List: this is both a large website with a great wealth of information on all relevant areas of linguistics (incl. further links) and a subscribable mailing list

International Computer Archive of Medieval and Modern English (ICAME): documentation/manuals for available corpora of English, bibliographies and archive of Corpora mailing list
David Lee’s Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists: very good collection!
British National Corpus (BNC): a 100-million-word corpus of spoken and written English from the 1990s, with a searchable interface
Phrases in English database, based on the BNC
BYU-BNC, by Mark Davies: another good search interface for the BNC
The Corpus of Contemporary American English, by Mark Davies: texts from 1990 to 2007, searchable
TIME Corpus, by Mark Davies: 100 million words from TIME Magazine, from 1923-2006, searchable
The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE): with search interface
Gateway to Corpus Linguistics
Lingua Franca Corpus (Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English): after registration, you can log in and search and browse VOICE 1.0 online

Oxford English Dictionary (OED): the essential dictionary for all students of English! – licensed from any university computer
The Middle English Dictionary, University of Michigan
Glossary of Linguistic Terms

for finding texts / linguistic material for analysis!

Early Modern English Books online (zu verlinken mit der UB, unter databases/Anglistik)
Eighteenth Century Texts (zu verlinken mit der UB, unter databases/Geschichte)
Oxford Text Archive: a collection of reliable electronic literary and linguistic resources
Project Gutenberg: offers a large amount of free eBooks in many different languages to download.
Early Modern Literary Studies – Electronic Texts: provides a gathering of links to select electronic texts of fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth century materials which are on the Internet
The Bible Gateway: Many different Bible translations, both in English and other languages.
The Hansard, UK: transcriptions of the procedings in both houses of the British Parliament.
The Hansard, Canada
The Hansard, Australia
Old Bailey Proceedings: a fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court from 1764 to 1913.
The Middle English Collection, University of Virginia: a large amount of Middle English texts
Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan
From Stage to Page: collection of medieval and Renaissance drama

Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL): provides a large number of fonts necessary for linguistics (e.g. IPA fonts)

The Electronic Introduction to Old English, by Peter Baker: a good companion site to the book published by Blackwell in 2003
Old English at the University of Virginia: superordinate site for above, providing some more materials and links
Old English at the University of Calgary, by Murray McGillivray: online course in Old English
Early Modern English: a collection of links