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The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker
Originally published: New York : W. Morrow and Co., c1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-502) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-502) and index.
Language In Thought and Action
by S I Hayakawa
Language in Thought and Action is a book on semantics by Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, based on his previous work Language in Action published in 1939. Early editions were written in consultation with different people. The current 5th edition was published in 1991. It was updated by Hayakawa's son, Alan R. Hayakawa and has an introduction by Robert MacNeil. Its Library of Congress control number is 92033105. The book has sold over one million copies and has been translated into eight languages.
Made In America
by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land -...
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The Stuff Of Thought
by Steven Pinker
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books?including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate?have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today?s most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our...
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Language and Mind
by Noam Chomsky
This is the long-awaited third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This new edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system...
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Syntactic Structures
by Noam Chomsky
Syntactic Structures is an influential book by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first published in 1957. Widely regarded as one of the most important texts in the field of linguistics, this work laid the foundation of Chomsky's idea of transformational grammar. The book contains the well-known example of a sentence that is completely grammatical, yet completely nonsensical in "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Grammar Of the Arabic Language A
by W Wright
Reprint of the 1st pbk. ed. containing both volumes. Originally published in 1967.
Translation of: Grammatica Arabica.
Translation of: Grammatica Arabica.
Linguistics Books & Ephemera
Origins Of the Specious
by O'Conner, Patricia T ; Kellerman, Stewart
Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces "niche" as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with "and," or says "octopuses" instead of "octopi"? Do you think British spellings are more "civilised" than the American versions? Would you bet the bank that "jeep" got its start as a military term and "SOS" as an acronym for "Save Our Ship"? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you're myth-informed. Go stand in the corner--and read this book!In Origins of the...
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The Stuff of Thought : Language As a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Penguin Publishing Group, 2008. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$9.28
Conferences de l'Institut de Linguistique de l'Universite de Paris. Vol VIII
by Soustelle, J[acques], P. Chantraine, G. Coedes, et al
Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1949. 8vo, pp. 81, [3]; green printed wrappers, wrapper toned, near fine. Langages et tribus indigenes au Mexique, Les traits communs des langues slaves, La langue poetique et traditionnelle d'Homere, La curiosite linguistique dans l'antiquite classique, et Les langues de l'Indochine.
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A$44.55
Sir Isaac Pitman: his life and labors
by Pitman, Benn
[Cincinnati: Press of C. J. Krehbiel & Co, 1902. First edition, 8vo, pp. 201, [1]; portrait frontispiece, engraved title page, original brown cloth gilt, fine. A laudatory biography written and designed by Pitman's brother, with much on Isaac's work on shorthand and spelling reform.
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![Исландская просодика : к фонологической характеристике современного исландского языка и его истории / Islandskaya prosodika [= Icelandic prosody: present-day status and historical reconstruction]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/865/668/1446668865.0.b.jpg)
Исландская просодика : к фонологической характеристике современного исландского языка и его истории / Islandskaya prosodika [= Icelandic prosody: present-day status and historical reconstruction]
by Lieberman, Anatoly
Leningrad: Nauka, 1971. 8vo, pp. 168, [4]; text in Russian; errata slip tipped in; green paper wrappers; wrapers edge-worn, top of spine chipped, text clean and sound, good.
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A$53.45
Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method
by Lesley Milroy
Paperback / softback. New. Social networks ---- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed ---- are distinguished by their own patters of language use.
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A$89.66
Etymologicon linguae latinae
by VOSSIUS, GERHARD JOANN
Amsterdam: Elzevir, 1662. First edition, folio, pp. [68], 606; title printed in red and black, woodcut device on title page, text primarily in double column; nice large copy in full contemporary vellum, gilt supralibros on upper cover, as well as the name of Samuel Lossa, D.D., and the date "An: MDCCVII," both also in gilt; on the front free endpaper is a long inscription honoring Lossa's public service, also dated 1707; manuscript title on spine; very good and sound. Gerhard Vossius (1577-1649) was a...
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A$1,514.54
Noam Chomsky
by Lyons, John
New York: Viking, 1970. First edition, 12mo, pp. xii, [2], 143, [1]; paperback; light spotting on the top edge, else fine. An explication of Chomsky's grammatical theory, transformational-generative grammar, which radically changed the nature of linguistics studies.
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A$35.64
Grammaire de la langue Bulgare
by Beaulieux, Leon
Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1950. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [3], x-xvi, 415, [1]; printed paper wrappers; upper wrapper perished, lower starting, spine chipped, owner's signature on flyleaf, one leaf chipped at bottom edge from contact with tape, not affecting text, textblock clean and sound, good.
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A$53.45
Modelling the phoneme: new trends in East European phonemic theory
by Kortlandt, F. H. H
The Hague: Mouton, 1972. First edition, tall 8vo, pp. 177, [2] ads; near fine copy in a slightly chipped dust jacket. Janua linguarum, Series Maior, no. 68.
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A$26.73
Through the Lens of the Reader: Explorations of European Narrative
by Furst, Lilian R
State University of New York Press, 1991. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$22.57
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language
by Dictionary
Random House Information Group, 1987. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$22.30
A Treatise on Language
by Alexander Bryan Johnson
University of California Press, 1959. Paperback. Good. 1959. Second Printing. 312 pages. Pictorial paperback. Ex-Libris sticker to half title page. Edited by David Rynin. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has slight edge wear with minor marks and slight creases.
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A$42.33
The Articulate Mammal
by Aitchison, Jean (University of Oxford, UK)
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.
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A$48.03
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
by Partridge, Eric
Random House Value Publishing, 1988. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$9.51
Language in Thought & Action
by S.I. Hayakawa
The fourth edition of Hayakawa's classic text on the uses of language. Some highlighting of text, no marginal comments. Binding is tight, light rubbing on corners of covers.
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A$4.65
Studies of Chinese linguistics. Functional approaches
by Xing, Janet Zhiqun, ed
Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. 8vo, pp. x, 235, [1]; full black cloth, gilt title on spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Nine essays, including material on Chinese typology, word order variation, word formation, semantic change, cognition, discourse analysis, interface among syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and grammaticalization.
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Studies in lexicography
by Burchfield, Robert, ed
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 200; 8 tables and figures in the text; a near fine copy in the dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian. Ten essays on English dictionaries, from the OED to the Australian National Dictionary, brought together by the editor of A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (1972-1986). Though held in many public institutions, this Studies is difficult to find in the...
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Beijing dialect spoken in the structure and function of topic Cognitive China Social Sciences Press / 北京话口语中话题结构的功能认知研究
by Liu, Linjun
[Beijing]: China Social Sciences Press, 2010. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 2, 2, 8, [2], 6, 307, [1]; text in English with Chinese summary; printed paper wrappers; corner bumped, text clean and sound, near fine.
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A$106.91
Quantity adjustment: vowel lengthening and shortening in early middle English
by Ritt, Nikolaus
Cambridge: University Press, 1994. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 206; fine in original blue laminate boards. This is an unified account of all quantity changes affecting English stressed vowels during the early Middle English period. Dr Ritt discusses homorganic lengthening, open syllable lengthening, trisyllabic shortening, and shortening before consonant clusters. The study is based on a statistical analysis of Modern English reflexes of the changes.
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A$26.73
Проблема общности алтайских языков / Problema obshchnosti altaĭskikh iazykov
by [Sunik, O. P.]
Leningrad: Nauka, 1971. 8vo, pp. 403, [1]; text in Russian; gray cloth; slightly musty, text starting to tone but still clean and sound, very good. On the commonality of Altaic languages.
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A$53.45
Scripta Islandica. Islandiska saqllskapets arsbok 16 / 1965
by Skold, Tryggve
Upsala, Stockholm, & Kobenhavn`: Almqvist & Wiksells [and] Ejnar Munksgaard, 1966. First edition, 8vo, pp. 63, [1]; question in ink on front cover concerning an article within, else fine on original beige printed wrappers.
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A$35.64
Language & philology
by Kent, Roland G
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1923. Small 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 174, [3]; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends a bit worn, else near fine. Forms part of the series Our Debt to Greece and Rome.
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A$62.36
A dictionary of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms ... Volume II: the Supplement
by Partridge, Eric
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1961. Fifth edition, the first in 2 volumes; small 4to, pp. xvi, 974; v, [1], 975-1362; text in double column; some spotting to the covers else a very good set in original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Both volumes inscribed by Partridge to his friend and sometimes collaborator, John W. Clark, dated June 26, 1961. Covers words and phrases from the fifteenth century to the present day. Laid in is a lengthy newspaper article on Partridge from the N.Y. Times Magazine,...
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A$445.45
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction
by Lehmann, Winfred P
Paperback. Very Good.
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A$7.52
