Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Recommended Reference Books

Preliminary reading lists for First Year (Part I) Linguistics Tripos papers are given on the web pages for those papers. Full reading lists for Part II Linguistics papers are available from the Linguistics Resources on CamTools.

Current undergraduate students will find the following books useful to consult in order to check specialist words and expressions that turn up in textbooks and in lectures.

• P. H. Matthews, 1997, The Concise Dictionary of Linguistics, OUP.
• D. Crystal, 2002, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, Blackwell (also other editions).
• R.L. Trask, 1993, A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics, Routledge.
• R.L. Trask, 1996, A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology, Routledge.
• K. Brown (ed.), 2006, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, Elsevier.
• W. Frawley (ed), 2003, International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press (4 volumes).

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