Online Resources for Linguistic Studies

1. Portals

Sites with little original content, containing links to information providers

Intute www.intute.ac.uk
Instituto Camões www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/
Comunidade de Países de Língua Portuguesa www.cplp.org
Observatorio da Língua Portuguesa www.observatoriolp.com
Ministério de Cultura http://www.min-cultura.pt/
Brazil Portal (news aggregator) http://brazilportal.wordpress.com

2. General Language resources:

Ethnologue www.ethnologue.com
Summer Instutite of Linguistics (SIL) http://www.sil.org/linguistics/resources.html includes fonts, manuals

3. Portuguese Language and Linguistics

Instituto Camões: Centro Virtual Camões (CVC) http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/conhecer
CVC Historia da lingua portuguesa http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/conhecer/bases-tematicas/historia-da-lingua-portuguesa.html
CVC Biblioteca digital has out-of-print works in pdf format
Linguateca Resources http://www.linguateca.pt gives lists of grammars, dictionaries etc.
Orbis Latinus Maps section http://www.orbilat.com/Maps
Portuguese Language Resources at Harvard University Library

Sites to be avoided or treated with caution:

Wikipedia Portuguese Language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language
Orbis Latinus avoid except for useful Galician dialect maps

4. Consultórios

Sites giving linguistic advice to the general public: usually quite prescriptive and focused on issues of linguistic uncertainty.

Ciberduvidas
Brazilian Portuguese mainly for teachers, with a Pergunte ao Professor section
Portugues.com

5. The Acordo ortográfico

Text of the 1990/2009 Acordo ( Decree of 4 June 1991 approving the 1990 Acordo)
Portal da Língua Portuguesa Site with full documentation of the Acordo and its precursors

Blogs and comment pages about the Acordo and the recent polemics

Em Defesa da Língua Portuguesa
António Emiliano: Obrigatoriamente facultativo: O fim da ortografia
Onze teses contra os inimigos do Acordo

Dictionary sites giving "before and after" reports:

DLPO

6. Corpora

Corpora are large collections of digitised texts, with a search engine which allows detailed investigation of words and phrases

Corpus do portugues www.corpusdoportuguês.org sister site of Corpus do español
Linguateca www.linguateca.pt/ACDC/ gives access through a common search engine to twenty or more different corpora of EP and BP. For guidance on simple and sophisticated linguistic searches, see Corpus searching
Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa (CLUL)
access to corpora of European and African Portuguese
- Corpus Dialectal para o Estudo da Sintaxe
- Corpus oral "Português Fundamental (PF)
- Corpus oral "Português Falado" (materials also distributed in CD, available in Portuguese Centre)
NURC materials
- NURC-RJ
- NURC-SP

7. Other Language Resources

ILTEC (Instituto de Linguística Teórica e Computacional, Lisbon)
- MorDebe (generates morhological forms of verbs)
- Vocabulário da mudança and other material on the Acordo Ortográfico
- Dicionário de Estrangeirismos
CLUL
- Léxico Contrastivo África
- Léxico de Frequências do Português
- LumaLiDa transcriptions of child language [user registration required]

8. Text archives

(for fuller list, see Ciberportuguês, on WebLearn)

Dominio Publico www.dominiopublico.org.br
Projecto Vercial http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/vercial/vercial.htm
Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo (ANTT) Historical documents