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My thanks to the following scholars for their kind assistance regarding my request for an enclyclopedic dictionary of linguistics: Peter T. Daniels Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho Lance Eccles Kleanthes K. Grohmann Henry M. Hoenigswald Mark Janse Heike Lehnert Yi-Jiun K Lin James Mullooly Marc Picard Chris Newton Ralph Rose Horacio Saggion Gary H. Toops Bill Whitson Here is a list of their combined recommendations: Bright, Williami (ed.) _International Encyclopedia of Linguistics_. 4 vols. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. Bussmann, Hadumod. Gregory Trauth & Kerstin Kazzazi, trans. _Dictionary of Language and Linguistics_. Routledge, 1996. Crystal, David. _The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language_. 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 1997. (First published in 1987.) Crystal, David. _The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language_. Cambridge University Press, 1997. (First published in 1995.) Crystal, David. _An Encyclopedia Dictionary of Language and Languages_. Penguin Books, 1994. Crystal, David. _A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics_. 4th ed. Blackwell Publishers Inc. 1997. Ducrot, Oswald and Tzvetan Todorov. _Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language_. Trans. Catherine Porter. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1979. [Ducrot, Oswald & Schaeffer, Jean-Marie. Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences du langage. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1995. 670 p.] Karaulov, Jurij and Arto Mustajoki, eds. _Who's Who in Russian Linguistics_ [Kto est' kto v sovremennoj rusistike]. Moscow/Helsinki: dist. Oy Lbri Academici Ab, 1994. ISBN 952-90-5536-6. Malmkjaer, Kristen, ed. _The Linguistics Encyclopedia_. New York: Routledge, 1991. Matthews, P. H. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford Paperback Reference. Richards, J., J. Platt, and H. Weber. _Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistics_. London: Longman, 1985. Trask, R. L. _A Studendt'sDictionary of Language and Linguistics. Arnold Publications. These Website URLs were also forwarded: <www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Linguistics/dictionaries.html> <www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/quicksearch-query/6751-9223345-638472> <www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ats-query/3059-1275556-860821> - ------------------ J. Kingston Cowart San Diego, California <jkcowartMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueio-online.com>