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About the Institute for the German Language![]() Diese Information ist auch in Deutsch verfügbar. The Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim was founded in 1964. It is the central non-university institution for the study and documentation of current usage and recent history of the German language. The IDS is financed jointly by the Federal Government and the state of Baden-Württemberg. The various departments do not teach the German language, but pursue mainly long-term projects which involve large-scale collaborative research. However, information is available on German courses for foreigners interested in learning German. In the department of Grammar the grammatical structures of German are identified and described. An extensive new grammar of the German language has been compiled and published in three volumnes. The department of Lexical Studies carries out research into lexicology and lexicography. It works with the building of text corpora, which can serve as a basis for research into present-day German, and also into the recent history and development of the language, and comparisons with other languages. The department of Pragmatics/Language Use undertakes research into language use and language variation, i.e. the existence and development of difference in language. One constituent of this work is the compilation of spoken language corpora. The focal point is the Deutsches Spracharchiv (German Language Archive, DSAv) with the world's largest collection of sound recordings of spoken German. The archive includes 15,000 recordings of German dialects and colloquial varieties, as well as many conversation types (everyday, consultations, arbitrations, etc.) adding up to 4,500 hours of recorded material.
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