LINGUIST List 2.854

Thu 12 Dec 1991

FYI: Linguistic Dictionaries

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1. Roland Noske, reply to query on linguistics dictionaries
2. , dictionary of linguistic terminology
3. , Wahl -linguistics dictionary

Kelly Wahl asks about linguisitics dictionaries:
A German linguistics dictionary:
Bussmann, Hadumod 1983. Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. Stuttgart: Kroener.
 (a very good one)
A French linguistics dictionary:
Dubois, Jean 1980. Dictionnaire de linguistique. nouv. 'ed. Paris: Larousse
A Dutch linguistics dictionary:
Booij, Geert E, J.G. Kerstens & H.J. Verkuijl 1980. Lexicon van de taal-
 wetenschap. 2e geheel herziene druk. Utrecht/Antwerpen: Het Spectrum.
As for English, I don't know.
Roland Noske, Amsterdam

The best dictionary of linguistic terminology that is currently available is
 Bussmann, Hadumod. 1990. Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft.
 2nd edition. Stuttgart: Kroener.
It contains 2125 articles (3500 entries), much more than Crystal's
dictionary, and rich references at the end of each article. The focus is
on German linguistics (e.g., there is an article on Pertinenzdativ, but
not on possessor ascension), but it is very up to date (e.g., there is an
article on DP).
Another recent linguistic dictionary is
 Jarceva, V.N. (ed.) 1990. Lingvisticheskij enciklopedicheskij slovar'.
 Moskva: Sovetskaja Enciklopedija.
This is a much bigger encyclopedia with 2500 articles (many of them on
language families), and 6800 linguistic terms in the subject index.
Martin Haspelmath, Free University of Berlin

Cf. Crystal, David. 1985. A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. Basil
 Blackwell.
Shirley Silver, Sonoma State University (Anthropology/Linguistics)
silversonoma.edu