Linguistics

Member organization dedicated to teaching and learning of foreign languages.

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is an international scientific and educational organization for the scientific study of language.

The International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) is an international federation of national and regional associations of Applied Linguistics.

The Linguistic Society of America works to advance the scientific study of language. The organization supports research on the documentation and preservation of languages.

The Linguistics Research Center provides linguistic resources for study on Indo-European languages and cultures.

Provides opportunities for members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy. Works to strengthen the study and teaching of language and literature.

SIL International is a faith-based nonprofit organization that works with communities worldwide on sustainable language development.

Online forum for academic linguists to discuss linguistic issues.

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, is an open consortium of universities, libraries, corporations and government research laboratories. The organization creates and distributes a variety of linguistic resources, including data, tools and standards.

Open Access corpora created by Mark Davies, Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University. Most corpora for American or British English, but does include a Spanish and Portuguese corpus. Wide range of chronological periods.

The International Corpus of English (ICE) began in 1990 with the primary aim of collecting material for comparative studies of English worldwide.

The International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) is a corpus of essay writing by upper intermediate and advanced learners.

The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts is a structured multi-genre diachronic corpus, which includes periodically organized text samples from Old, Middle and Early Modern English. Each sample is preceded by a list of parameter codes giving information on the text and its author.

The Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese (LCMC) is designed as a Chinese match for the FLOB and FROWN corpora for modern British and American English. The corpus is suitable for use in both monolingual research into modern Mandarin Chinese and cross-linguistic contrast of Chinese and British/American English.

The EMILLE Corpus has been constructed as part of a collaborative venture between the EMILLE project (Enabling Minority Language Engineering), Lancaster University, UK, and the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, India. EMILLE is distributed by the European Language Resources Association.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

The OTA collects, catalogues, preserves and distributes high-quality digital resources for research and teaching.

Index to more than one million works in English. Mostly older materials no longer under copyright although more current items included when permission for free access has been granted.

Over 50,000 books available for free. Has links to Gutenberg sites in other countries that also provide free online books.