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Welcome to LingUR

LingUR (Linguistics Undergraduate Resources) is meant to provide aspiring and undergrad level students of linguistics (at Boğaziçi for now) with useful resources and guides to build their careers as academics and or linguists.

Important Organizations around Linguistics

Overall

  • LinguistList is a big e-mail list where people post announcements or notices regarding events, conferences, calls for papers, job opportunities, new software products that helps linguists, and all the good things. They also have a student portal where they post research and writing resources. Since most schools and associations are on linguistlist, most summer schools are posted here too, and you can browse all of the ones you can apply to through this link. They also have a cookbook.
  • Dilbilim Derneği organizes conferences such as the International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL), Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı (UDK), and Dilbilim Öğrenci Konferansı (DÖK). They also host a list of departments and student communities of linguistics in Turkey.
  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is the most prominent linguistic society in the world at the time, publishing five scholarly journals and array of proceedings for conferences including the LSA Annual Meeting.

Generative Linguistics

Sociolinguistics

Online Tools for Linguistics

  • LingBuzz is an openly accessible repository of scholarly papers, discussions and other documents for linguistics. Scholars are highly encouraged to upload their articles - old and new, published or not. It is run and hosted by Michal Starke They unfortunately categorize the submitted papers by phonology, semantics, syntax, morphology, and/or diachrony, so it is a limited resource for the rest of the field linguistics, but for what it hosts, it is the best.

Syntax and Semantics

  • Miles Shang's Syntax Tree Generator If you are doing a syntax homework and you don't want to learn LaTeX overnight but don't want to upload a photo of your hand-drawn syntax trees either, this web application is a life saver. It's notation is so easy that even a sociolinguist like me could figure it out.

Phonetics and Phonology

  • Interactive IPA Chart is one of the most useful tools I've used when doing phonetics and phonology homeworks. If you haven't built an intuitive sense of phonological distinctions yet this tool will save your life in phonetics and phonology.

Sign Language Linguistics

  • Spread The Sign is an online multilingual dictionary of sign languages. Useful for comparing signs from different sign languages or looking up signs quickly.

Corpus Linguistics

  • CWPWeb at Lancaster hosts a very large catalog of corpora. It uses CQPWeb (Corpus Query Processor Web) and is currently hosted and maintained by Andrew Hardie.
  • TSCorpus is a free and independent project by Taner Sezer, a scholar in Mersin University, that also uses CQPWeb and is dedicated to building Turkish language corpora, developing NLP tools, and compiling linguistic datasets. TSCorpus is currently the biggest corpora hub for Turkish data.

Miscellaneous

  • LinguisTree is an online and interactive academic genealogy website for seeing who was who's teacher. This is helpful to understand certain schools or traditions of linguistics. LinguisTree is a subproject of The Academic Family Tree where there is many more disciplines of science and their genealogies.

Guides