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The series Online-only Publications of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDSopen) offers authors and recipients from all areas of linguistics a modern and open platform for digital publishing. IDSopen provides a contemporary publication environment that focuses on publishing works based on resources of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) and demonstrates their potential uses in particular. At the same time, IDSopen is characterized by its openness to unconventional publication forms and formats. Transparent review processes are just as much a part of the series' profile as an open publication schedule and addressing different target groups. IDSopen follows the guidelines of the IDS and the Leibniz Association (cf. LeibnizOpen) in accordance with the open access principle and publishes exclusively in digital form, without a printed version (online-only). The aim of these measures is to enable short publication times for manuscripts, to offer unrestricted and free access to quality-checked scientific information about IDS resources on the Internet and to support liquid publication processes.

Current Issue

Vol. 16 (2026): Deutsch im Wandel (Beiträge zur Methodenmesse der IDS-Jahrestagung 1)

This edited volume presents the contributions to the Methods Fair of the 61st Annual Conference of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language 2025, which was themed “German in Change” and focused on linguistic change – particularly in contemporary German, but also across multiple historical stages of language development. The increasing digitization of historical resources and the development of new technologies for data collection, documentation, and analysis are opening up novel opportunities for research on linguistic change. A central aim of the Methods Fair was to showcase innovative methodological approaches that support or even enable the study of linguistic change. The volume features twelve contributions from diverse areas of linguistics, each of which, in addition to descriptions of methods, resources, or tools, includes concrete case studies. Thus, the volume not only provides an up-to-date overview of current methods in the study of linguistic change, but also offers inspiration and practical support for future research.

Volume editors: Annelen Brunner, Sandra Hansen, Christian Lang, Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu and Sascha Wolfer

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21248/idsopen.16.2026.63

Published: 2026-03-09

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