Resources

Here you’ll find a collection of links and resources I’ve collected over time. While I originally put these together for my own use, I’ve made them public to share with students and anybody who may find them useful. (Feel free to email me your recommendations)

Overview

Resources for research

Online corpora and datasets

Online searchable corpora

Corpus of Contemporary American English (Online searchable American English corpus)
DWDS – Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, more than just a dictionary; for using the DWDS for corpus research, see the online book “Incorporating Corpora” by Nina Vyatkina and Schirin Kourehpaz

Datasets about variation

Yale Grammatical Diversity Project English in North America, a dataset documenting syntactic constructions in non-standard American English varieties, from YALE university
Datenbank für gesprochenes Deutsch (Database for spoken German) from Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache at the University of Mannheim

Negation and NPIs

The collection of idiosyncratically distributed items (NPIs, bound morphemes) from Göthe University Frankfurt
Collection of results and annotated text from the project “Typologie der Negation in den obugrischen und samojedischen Sprachen (NOS)” (Typology of negation in Obugric and Samoyedic languages) from University of Vienna
Datasets for Resolving the Scope and Focus of Negation from SEM Shared Task 2012, Montreal, Canada

Other

UCLA phonetics lab archive, a collection of recordings of hundreds of languages from around the world
Corpus of linguistic acceptability, a collection of linguistic example sentences (from linguistics publications) and grammaticality annotations, by Alex Warstadt