Dictionaries
DARE Dictionary of American Regional English. 1985–2012. Edited by Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall. 5 vols. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
MED Middle English Dictionary. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/
OED The Oxford English Dictionary. 1989. Edited by John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
OED Online The Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com
WNT Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal. http://gtb.inl.nl/
Corpora and Databases
BNC British National Corpus. 1994. BNC Consortium. www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk
CED A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760. 2006. Compiled by Merja Kytö and Jonathan Culpeper. www.engelska.uu.se/Research/English_Language/Research_Areas/Electronic_Resource_Projects/A_Corpus_of_English_Dialogues/
CELEX The CELEX Lexical Database Release 2. 1995. Created by R. Harald Baayen, Richard Piepenbrock and Hedderik van Rijn. Nijmegen: Centre for Lexical Information, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
CHK Corpus Historische Kranten. http://kbkranten.politicalmashup.nl
CL (CLMETEV) Corpus of Late Modern English Texts, Extended Version (CLMETEV). 2006. Compiled by Hendrik De Smet. Department of Linguistics, University of Leuven. https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0044428/
CLMET 3.0 Corpus of Late Modern English Texts, version 3.0. Compiled by Hendrik De Smet, Hans-Jürgen Diller and Jukka Tyrkkö. https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0044428/clmet3_0.htm
COCA Corpus of Contemporary American English: 450 Million Words, 1990–Present. 2008. Created by Mark Davies. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/
COHA Corpus of Historical American English: 400 Million Words, 1810–2009. 2010. Created by Mark Davies. http://corpus.byu.edu/coha/
DOEC Dictionary of Old English Corpus. 2009. Compiled by Antonette diPaolo Healey, Joan Holland, Ian McDougall and David McDougall, with Xin Xiang. http://doe.utoronto.ca/pages/index.html
ECCO Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/
EEBO Early English Books Online. http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebogroup/
EEBOCorp1.0 Early English Books Online Corpus (Version 1.0).
HC The Helsinki Corpus of English Texts. 1991. Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki. Compiled by Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Matti Kilpiö, Saara Nevanlinna, Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg.
IMEPC Innsbruck Middle English Prose Corpus. 1992–1997. Manfred Markus. www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/projects/icamet/
IMEPCS Innsbruck Middle English Prose Corpus Sampler. www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/projects/icamet/
L18 C PROSE A Corpus of Late 18c Prose. 2003. Created by David Denison. http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/david.denison/late18c
LCSAE Longman Corpus of Spoken American English. Edinburgh Gate, Harlow, Essex: Addison Wesley Longman. www.pearsonlongman.com/dictionaries/corpus/spoken-american.html
LION Literature Online. http://literature.proquest.com/
ME Corpus (CMEPV) Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse (CMEPV). 2006. The Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/
OBC Old Bailey Corpus. 2012. Compiled by Magnus Huber, Magnus Nissel, Patrick Maiwald and Bianca Widlitzki. www1.uni-giessen.de/oldbaileycorpus/
PPCMBE Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern British English. 2010. Compiled by Anthony Kroch, Beatrice Santorini and Ariel Diertani. www.ling.upenn.edu/hist-corpora/PPCMBE2-RELEASE-1/index.html [second release 2016]
TIME TIME Magazine Corpus: 100 Million Words, 1920s–2000s. 2007. Created by Mark Davies. http://corpus.byu.edu/time/
TNC Twente Nieuws Corpus. 2007. http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/TwNC
WebCorp WebCorp Live. 1999–2015. Developed and maintained by the Research and Development Unit for English Studies, School of English, Birmingham City University. www.webcorp.org.uk/live/
WebCorp LSE WebCorp Linguist’s Search Engine. 1999–2013. Developed and maintained by the Research and Development Unit for English Studies, School of English, Birmingham City University. http://wse1.webcorp.org.uk