A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics

Hardback Completely revised and updated in its fifth edition, this dictionary is a single-volume reference. The fifth edition incorporates new words or senses that have developed in linguistics during the past five years, based on recommendations by a team of experts in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics and sociolinguistics. The dictionary now includes more than 5000 terms, grouped into over 3000 entries. The layout has been modified to increase the effectiveness of cross-referencing, all abbreviations have been included in a separate table at the end of the book, and a separate table of symbols has been added. Contents: Definition of Terms; Table of Abbreviations; Table of Symbols.