Category: Linguistics

Thomas Pyles: Selected Essays on English Usage.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1979. First Edition.

Seller ID: 1688gls

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv + 223 pp. Fine (As New) in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The twenty-one essays by Thomas Pyles in this collection bear witness to the vitality of the English language and to its integrity in the midst of great variety in use. Published over a 34-year period by this distinguished scholar of English language study and usage, many of these writings are otherwise not readily available. The selections are presented here for the benefit of laymen as well as students of the language in honor of their author, a mas...
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Roots: Family Histories of Familiar Words.

By: Davies, Peter.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1981].

Seller ID: 4541s

Tall square octavo, black boards, 216 pp. Illus. Ex-Libris with usual markings, otherwise Fine in a like dust jacket. ÔThis unique book offers case histories of 100 Indo-European roots and shows how they appear in modern English...Each of the 100 case histories was selected (from several thousand known roots) because of its wide use and its interest value...Each entry consists of a definition and discussion of the root, a concise history of its descent to present-day English, and a chart that presents the story visually. The book offers a wealth of curious and enlightening facts...'
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Paul et Virginie. Aveo Vocabulaire.

By: De Saint-Pierre, J. H. Bernardin.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York: George R. Lockwood, (1852).

Seller ID: 4152bda

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 141 pp + unpaginated Dictionary, French and English, of All the Words Contained in This Volume. Good, with soiling to covers and light edgewear; foxing throughout (age darkened spotting); a few pencilled notes.
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Selected Proceedings: The Thirty-Fifth Annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference.

By: Fernandez-Rubio, Ramon; Editor.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Greenville, SC: Furman University, 1985.

Seller ID: qms699

Octavo, paperbound (stiff white illus. wrappers), 387 pp. Near-Fine, with very slight rubbing to edges. Contents Include: The Future of Criticism, by Jonathan Culler; Generic Composition in Latin American Poetry: Nicanor Parra and Diatribe, by Geoffrey R. Barrow; Presencia del Texto Lascasiano en la obra de Garcia Marquez, by Antonio Benitez-Rojo; Colonial Historiography and the Contemporary Narrative, a Critical Dialogue; From Verga to Mascagni: The Operatic Conversion of Cavalleria Rusticana, by David C. Bradley; Evelyn Scott in Brazil, by Ashley Brown; Maintaining Cultural Traditions t...
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Le Nouveau Dictionnaire Universel, Francois-Anglois, et Anglois-Francois, Extrait des Ecrits des meilleurs Auteurs ainsi que Dictionnaires les plus estimes deux Langues, & particulierement de celui de A. Boyer... [Two volumes].

By: Garner, John.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Ruen: Chez la Veuve Pierre Dumesnil et Fils, 1802.

Seller ID: vas5398

Two volumes. Quarto, full calf (leather, hardcover), calf labels, xxxxii, [unpaginated]; lxiii, [unpaginated] pp. Good; covers worn and scuffed; interiors clean and tight.
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A Systematic Tabulation of Indo-European Animal Names with Special Reference to Their Etymology and Semasiology. New York University Dissertation. [Language Dissertations, Published by the Linguistic Society of America, Edited by George Melville Bolling, Hans Kurath, Edward Sapir, Samuel Moore. Number VIII, September 1931].

By: Gottlieb, Eugene.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Reprinted with the permission of the original publishers. New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.

Seller ID: qms1035

Octavo, paperbound (stiff blue wrappers), 48 pp.
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The Development of Second Language Proficiency.

By: Harley, Birgit; Allen, Patrick; Cummins, Jim; Swain, Merrill. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, (!995).Cambridge Applied Linguistics. Series Editors: Michael H. Long and Jack C. Richards.

Seller ID: vas951

Octavo, softbound (slick black, white, red wrappers), xiv, 248 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: This volume presents the results of a major investigation of second language proficiency in various groups of school age learners. The contributors, who are experts in the field of bilingual education and second language acquisition, address such issues as the nature of language proficiency, the impact of classroom practices on second language learning, the relationship between social-environmental factors and bilingual proficiency, and the relationship between age and language proficiency. ...
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Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters.

By: Heisig, James W.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Japan: Japan Publications Trading Co., Ltd., [1990].

Seller ID: 00717scs

Octavo, softbound, 494 pp. Fine. From Introduction: The aim of this book is to provide the student of Japanese with a simple method for correlating the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters in such a way as to make them both easy to remember. It is intended not only for the beginner, but also for the more advanced student looking for some relief to the constant frustration of forgetting how to write the kanji and some way to systematize what he or she already knows. by showing how to break down the complexities of the Japanese writing system into its basic elements and suggestin...
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A Turkish-English Dictionary.

By: Hony, H. C.; with the Advice of Fahir Iz.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1947. First Edition.

Seller ID: vas974

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, viii, 397 pp. Very Good, with sunned spine and light wear to covers.
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Linguistics.

By: Johnson, Keith; Johnson, Helen.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., (1998).

Seller ID: vas954

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), silver letters, 389 pp. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive reference guide to the key concepts, ideas, movements, and trends of applied linguistics for language teaching. With over 300 entries of varying length, the volume includes essential coverage of applied linguistics, language learning and language teaching.
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers; To Which Are Prefixed, A History of the Language, and an English Language, and an English Grammar. The Sixth Edition.

By: Johnson, Samuel.

Price: $950.00

Publisher: London: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, [et al.], 17886.

Seller ID: 9389gcs

Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary calf neatly rebacked (hardcover, leather), calf labels. Fine engraved portrait (dated 1786, as always, and executed during printing process). This edition contains the original Preface, History of the English Language, &c., and the Advertisement to the Fourth Edition. Good; joints tender, some shelf wear, title labels chipped, spines discolored (by a light-colored leather dressing?), text clean and crisp, bearing the bookplate of J. D. Barnard.
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Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in Miniature. To Which Are Added, An Alphabetical Account of the Heathen Deities, and a Chronological Table of Remarkable Events, Discoveries, and Inventions. By the Rev. Joseph Hamilton, M. A. Second American Edition.

By: Johnson, Samuel.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston: Published by W. Andrews, 1806.

Seller ID: 9390gcs

16mo, contemporary mottled calf (hardcover, leather), gilt back, narrow filigree border, double-columned, [vi], [7]-276 pp. Frontis. portrait. A charming American binding with owner's name label, ÒMartha Willard 1811,Ó lettered in gilt on front cover. Very Good.
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Words for Clothing in the Principal Indo-European Languages. Language Dissertations Published by the Linguistic Society of America. Supplement to Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Number IX, September, 1931.

By: Lane, George Sherman. [Bolling, George Melville; Editor].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.

Seller ID: qms1319

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, light blue wrappers), 44 pp. Near-Fine, with slight sunning to edges.
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Histoire de la Langue Franaise; ?tudes sur les Origines, l'Etymologie, la Grammaire, les Dialectes, la Versification et les Lettres au Moyen Age. [Two volumes, complete].

By: Littr?, Emile.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Paris: Didier et Cie, 1882. Eighth edition.

Seller ID: 4201AEantique

Two volumes. Quarter morocco & pebbled cloth (hardcover), lix, 436 pp + 518 pp. Very Good; perforated library stamps on title pages, endpapers are toned; otherwise, clean & tight.
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Plattduutsch in sess Weken: Een Leesun Lehrbook for Anfanger un Kunnige.

By: Meiners, Gerold.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oldenburg: Isensee Verlag, [1997]].

Seller ID: 4555s

Octavo, softbound, illus. covers, 100 pp. Fine (As New). Lesson plans, charts, exercises.
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Exercises in Linguistics.

By: Parker, Frank; Riley, Kathryn.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, A College-Hill Publication, (1990).

Seller ID: vas952

Quarto, slick stapled burgundy wrappers (softbound), 133 pp. Near Fine. From Preface: ... This workbook contains 800 exercises, distributed equally over the eight areas covered in Linguistics for Non-Linguists. Thus, there are 100 exercises on each of the following subjects: pragmatics (languages), semantics (word and sentence meaning), syntax (sentence structure), morphology (word structure), phonology (sound patterns), language variation (regional, social, and stylistic differences), language acquisition (child language development), and neurolinguistics (language and the brain). The e...
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88 Kopotknx Paccka3ob. 88 Short Russian Stories. Reader No. 1. With Notes and Vocabulary Compiled by B. P. Pockney.

By: Pockney, B. P.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire: Collet's Ltd., (1969).

Seller ID: qms184

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 144 pp. Near-Fine, with darkened spine.
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They Have a Word for It. A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases.

By: Rheingold, Howard.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., [1998]. First Editon.

Seller ID: 4417s

Octavo, softbound, glossy, color illus. covers, 224 pp. Fine. Ô...takes the reader to the far corners of the globe to discover words and phrases for which there are no equivalents in English. From the North Pole to New Guinea, from Easter Island to Tibet, Howard Rheingold explores more than forty familiar and obscure languages to discover genuinely useful (rather than simply odd) words that can open up new ways of understanding and experiencing life...Witty as well as wise...is gauranteed to enrich your vocabulary with words and phrases that will open your eyes, expand your mind, and lend a...
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Second Language Learning: Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis, and Related Aspects.

By: Robinett, Betty Wallace; Schachter, Jacquelyn; Editors.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (1996).

Seller ID: vas953

Octavo, softbound (slick blue stiff wrappers), 478 pp. Near Fine. From lower cover: Robinett and Schachter's anthology provides a survey of the historical underpinnings of second language research in contrastive analysis and error analysis. Also included is a section on recent developments that broaden the perspectives on second language learning. Various viewpoints and approaches are represented within each section. The inclusion of both theoretical and applied studies should sharpen student understanding of the relationship between these two aspects of research. In addition, a unique ...
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Schools of Linguistics.

By: Sampson, Geoffrey.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, (1980).

Seller ID: vas950

Octavo, softbound (stiff white illus. wrappers), 283 pp. Very Good. From lower cover: The years around 1900 marked a turning-point for modern linguistics, a shift away from historical linguistics, or philolgy, which has previously dominated the field. Where research had once been preoccupied with delving into the history of languages and their relationships, and reconstructing the lost proto-languages from which families of extant languages descend, it underwent a dramatic shift toward analyzing languages as communicative systems at work at a given point in time, almost ignoring the route ...
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Category: Linguistics