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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-466. Tue Mar 26 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  113
 
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Date:  Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:39:05 GMT
From:  teemsht at ioe.ac.uk (Su-Hsun Tsai)
Subject:  Sum: Linguistic Dictionary
 
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Date:  Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:39:05 GMT
From:  teemsht at ioe.ac.uk (Su-Hsun Tsai)
Subject:  Sum: Linguistic Dictionary
 
 
Dear Netters,
 
     I am grateful to the colleagues (names as followed) who responded
to me with helpful information regarding my query on March 15 about
Linguistics Dictionary.
 
     My special thanks to Prof. Trask, too, who gave a big lead.
 
Lisa Colvin <colvin at cyc.com>
"David Weiss" <david_weiss at gbinc.com>
Kristina Pfaff <kristina at unr.edu>
dbobrow at berksys.com (Deborah Bobrow)
h9405049 at student.anu.edu.au (Baden Hughes)
Victor Essers <I-victes at microsoft.com>
Karin Stromswold <karin at ruccs.rutgers.edu>
"Parma A. O'Bar" <parma at seattleu.edu>
robert boivin <r26670 at er.uqam.ca>
pete.whitelock at sharp.co.uk (Pete Whitelock)
pete.whitelock at sharp.co.uk (Pete Whitelock)
NICOLE MUELLER <SENNM at cardiff.ac.uk>
UHLJ004 at vms.rhbnc.ac.uk
"Larry Trask" <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
MARC PICARD <PICARD at vax2.concordia.ca>
bill at hivnet.ubc.ca (Bill Turkel)
Eleanor Olds Batchelder <EOBGC at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
 W & I Stevenson <stevens4 at globedirect.com>
dagenl at ERE.UMontreal.CA (Dagenais Louise)
 keg at violet.berkeley.edu (Keith GOERINGER)
Gisle.Andersen at eng.uib.no (Gisle Andersen)
"B.P.H. Lee" <bphl100 at cus.cam.ac.uk>
Elizabeth McKeown <EM5 at soas.ac.uk>
 
I would now conclude the most popular linguistics dictionaries are the
following entries.  Their wording doesn't look like consistent between
entries as I directly snipped down all the valuable pieces from the
replies.  I am sorry for this inconsistency.
 
1) Crystal, David.   (1987).   The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of
Language.  Cambridge UK
 
2) Crystal, David. (ed.)   (1991).   A Dictionary of Linguistics and
Phonetics, 3rd ed.   Blackwell USA. (Or Blackwell UK; Cambridge
USA).  ISBN: 0-631-17871-6.
- --- paperback, under USD20.-.  Very accessible, and quite
     authoritative.  This is fairly detailed, and it presupposes some
     knowledge of the subject.  It does not cover applied linguistics.
 
3) Crystal, David.   (1992).   An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Language
and Languages.   Oxford: Blackwell.
- --- This is more encyclopaedic in its coverage, but it does cover a
     good deal of the less theoretical stuff omitted from the (2)
     dictionary.
 
3) Malmkjaer, Kirsten.   (1991)   The Linguistics Encyclopaedia.
Routledge.
- --- with a rich bibliography and an index, about Canadian Dollars 47.
 
4) Richards, Jack C.; Platt, John; Platt, Heidi.   (1992).   Dictionary of
Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics (2nd ed).  Longman UK.
- --- excellent source of linguistic terminology.  It gives a lot of
     linguistic terms as well as a number of statistical terms which
     are helpful when reading about research.
 
5) Trask, R. L.   (1993).   A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in
Linguistics.   Routledge.  ISBN: 0-415-08628-0
- --- Focuses mostly on syntax terms, but is excellent.
 
6) Trask, R. L.   (1996).   Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology.
Routledge.
- --- excellent.
 
7) Trask, Larry.  (To be published in February 1997)   An elementary
dictionary for beginning students with no background.   Edward Arnold
UK.
 
Best wishes to everyone,
 
Su-hsun, research student
IOE, U. of London
teemsht at ioe.ac.uk
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