Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edition)

RR 2015/097 Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (3rd edition) Edited by P.H. Matthews Oxford University Press Oxford 2014 xv + 444 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 967512 8 £11.99 $19.95 Oxford Paperback Reference Also available online through Oxford Reference

Keywords Dictionaries, Linguistics

Review DOI 10.1108/RR-11-2014-0329

This is the third edition of the concise dictionary of linguistics published by Oxford University Press. It comes 7 years after the previous edition (2007) (RR 2008/127) and 17 years after the original (1997). The publication of a revised edition demonstrates that this type of work is in demand and brings it up-to-date with a number of changes in the field. The cover looks suitably academic and stylish and is a big improvement over the second-edition paperback which had some rather alarming faces on the cover.

The editor, Peter Matthews, is well-respected and an established expert in his field. He is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He has a long list of publications in this field, including The Positions of Adjectives in English (Matthews, in press).

The dictionary runs from A to Zyryan (another name for Komi, the main Finno-Ugric language...