Books on linguistics

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David Crystal  The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language  Cambridge
University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-26438-3
David Crystal  A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics
Blackwell, 1985, ISBN 0-631-14081-6
William Bright, ed.  International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
4 vols., Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-19-505196-3
R. E. Asher, ed.  The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
10 vols., Pergamon, 1994, ISBN 0-08-035943-4
     [For reviews of other books on linguistics, see Michael 
     Quinion's World Wide Words site.]