Preface. Definition of Terms. Table of Abbreviations. Table of Symbols.
David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He is the author of several benchmark reference volumes, including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1995) and an Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language and Languages (Blackwell, 1992).
"What we have here are definitions and explanations covering the
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