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| Abbreviation | IDS |
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| Formation | 1964 |
| Purpose | Educational accreditation |
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Region served | Europe,Germany |
| Membership | Leibniz Association |
Director | Henning Lobin |
| Staff | 160 |
| Website | www |
TheLeibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS;German:Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache) inMannheim,Germany, is a linguistic and social research institute and a member of theLeibniz Association.[1] Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin, director of the institute, and Prof. Dr. Arnulf Deppermann, vice director of the institute, IDS employs a staff of about 160. The IDS was established in Mannheim in 1964 and is still headquartered there. It is the central extramural institute for research and documentation of the Germanlanguage in its contemporary usage and its recent history. As a member of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Leibniz-Association), the IDS is financed both by the federal government and by the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The work of the IDS is divided into four departments and two central sections:
In theDepartment of Grammar, the grammatical structure of contemporary German is identified and described. The department is divided into two areas that work with contemporary theoretical and methodological standards of German linguistics and simultaneously employ computational-linguistic and statistical methods. Research is conducted in two areas, the areaDescription and Development of Grammatical Knowledge and the areaLanguage Technologies and Information Systems. TheRat für Deutsche Rechtschreibung (Council for German Orthography) is also affiliated with this department.[2]
TheDepartment of Lexical Studies deals with lexicological, lexicographical, and corpus-based research in which specific lexical fields are studied, enabling comprehensive documentation of the German vocabulary. Research is conducted in the following three areas:Lexicography and Documentation of Language,Lexical Syntagmatics andEmpirical and Digital Lexical Studies.
TheDepartment of Pragmatics researches language use and language variation, that is, the form and development of linguistic diversity. In particular, spoken language usage is considered. The areaInteraction is a leading international center for conversation research and interactional linguistics. The areaSpoken Corpora includes archives, such as the "Archiv für Gesprochenes Deutsch (AGD)" (the Archive for spoken German).[3]
TheDepartment of Digital Linguistics is divided into two areas. The areaResearch Coordination and Research Infrastructure deals with tasks and projects related to the internal and external communication of information and networking. The areaCorpus Linguistics supervises the expansion, annotation, and analysis of (written language) electronic corpora of German and develops methods and techniques of corpus-linguistic, empirical research.
The research activities pursuing predominantly cross-departmental objectives are directly subordinate to the director and pooled together in the organizational unitCentral Research, for instance, the program areas Research Infrastructures and Corpus Linguistics belong to this unit.[4] The areaLanguage in the public sphere investigates issues that affect the status and function of the German language in society.
ThePublic Relations Section manages the areas of public relations and the media, publications, documentation, and the library. Within the framework of its support services, the IDS maintains the German Language Archive, which is the largest collection of audio recordings of spoken German. Prospective users can order audio documentation and transcripts. Besides, the IDS provides online the archive corpora of written language (nine million book pages) as well as a specialized library that collects literature that encompasses all areas of present-day German linguistics.
