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Linguistics - Research Guide: Resources for Specific Languages

Language Atlases

Linguistic Atlas Projects
World Atlas of Language structures Online
Sprachatlas des deutschen Reichs
Onomasiology Online
Includes a bibliography of linguistic atlases
Atlas of North American English
Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English
DARE — Dictionary of American Regional English

Linguistic Corpora

Open Language Archives Community (OLAC)
Linguistic Data Consortium
Text Mining at the Penn Libraries : Existing Corpora
Lists several English-language corpora available through Penn Libraries subscriptions:
• Corpus of Historical American English.
• Corpus of Contemporary American English.
• Corpus of Global Web-Based English.
Also describes Penn Libraries procedures for accessing LexisNexis Bulk Data, Gale Text Data, and ProQuest textmining data.
Text Creation Partnership corpora
• Early English Books Online TCP
• 18th Century Collections Online TCP
• Evans TCP
Dictionary of Old English / Old English Corpus
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Google Ngram Viewer--corpus search

Reference Series on Specific Languages

Cambridge Language Surveys (book series)
Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge Syntax Guides (book series)
Cambridge University Press.
The World of Linguistics (book series)
De Gruyter Mouton.
Individual volumes for major geographical areas, covering the entire world.
Mouton Grammar Library (book series)
De Gruyter Mouton.
Languages of the World (book series)
Lincom GmbH.
Subseries include: Dictionaries, Materials (i.e., grammars), Text Collections.
Reference Grammars
Selections from various publishers.
Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics (book series)
De Gruyter Mouton
Varieties of English Around the World (book series)
John Benjamins.

English Language : Historical & Comparative

European Languages, inc. Latin & Greek

ARTFL — American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française
Corpus de la littérature narrative du moyen âge au XXe siècle
Part of the BASILE corpus of French texts.
Digital Bibliothek Deutsche Klassiker
Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell-Scott)
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics Online (EAGLL)
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Patrologiae Graecae
Latin Dictionary (Lewis & Short)
Database of Latin Dictionaries (Lewis & Short, Blaise, Du Cange, etc)
CLCLT — Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts
Patrologia Latina
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Analytic Bibliography of Online Neo-Latin Texts
TITUS - Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialen
Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries
Cross-searchable collection of etymological dictionaries, covering Armenian, Baltic languages, Proto-Celtic, Hittite, Slavic, Old Frisian, Proto-Germanic, Greek, Latin and other Italic dialects, Cuneiform Luvian, and Tocharian B, North Lechitic dialects, Proto-Nostratic, and Iranian verbs.
Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics : An International Handbook.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.

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