For one to find out about the definitions of "generative grammar", "sandhi phenomenon", "agglutinative morphology", etc.
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The only one which I have really used in that past is the Lexicon of Linguistics. There is also the Glossary of linguistic terms, which does not seem to be as complete. A brief search also revealed this Linguistics Glossary, which has very few entries.
In print, there are potentially more options, such as A Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics, but I imagine that these can become outdated rather quickly (which is not to say that websites do not, in practice, but they are theoretically easier to maintain).
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2In print I swear by Trask's two dictionaries, "A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology" and "A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics". Sep 14, 2011 at 21:49
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I'd second the mention of Trask's books. They are a bit dated now but even so his definitions are highly readable and back by wide familiarity with the field.– patSep 15, 2011 at 23:30
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I know we've already mentioned it a dozen times already - but I always find Wikipedia a good mix of basic definitions and indepth discussion. It usually doesn't seem to be too theoretically biased either.