The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics

The immediate impression of The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics is of a genuine dictionary, not an encyclopedia or a collection of essays. This view is confirmed by a closer examination: the book consists of an alphabetical list of words and phrases with simple definitions. Some definitions consist of a single sentence, others are longer with examples or explanations, but the core structure is that of a straightforward, traditional dictionary.

The introduction states that the primary audience is “undergraduate students and MA students whose curriculum includes a linguistics module”, but the entries also include items which relate to basic grammatical structure,...