Linguistics
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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.
An Introduction To Language
by Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams Victoria Fromkin
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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The Logic Of Scientific Discovery
by Karl R Popper
Logik der Forschung is a 1934 book by Karl Popper. It was originally written in German, but reformulated in English by Popper himself some years later, to be published as The Logic of Scientific Discovery in 1959. This forms the rare case of a major work to appear in two languages, both written by the author instead of being translated. Sir Peter Medawar called it "one of the most important documents of the twentieth century.
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.
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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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.
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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Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean
by Langermann, Y. Tzvi & Robert G. Morrison
The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2016. Hardcover. 9780271071091 . Hardcover. 2016. The Pennsylvania State University Press. 270 pages. Book and Dust Jacket are in FINE condition. ; 10.5511810916 X 7.7165354252 X 0.5511811018 inches; 270 pages .
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$35.00
Syntax: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
by Matthews, P. H
Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981 The cover is a little worn. The front page has a clipped corner. 306 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paper Back. Very Good. Size E: 8"-9" Tall (204-227mm).
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A$60.00
The Primitives of the Greek Tongue: containing a Complete Collection of All the Roots, or Primitive Words..
by Lancelot, Claude, 1615?-1695. [translated by Thomas Nugent]
London: Printed for F. Wingrave, 1810. New Edition, with Very Considerable Additions and Corrections. Hardcover. Good. xiii, [3], 391p. plus [1]p. [publisher's advertisements. Contemporary leather. 21 cm. Grease spots on front cover. Joints tender. Minor worming in upper right corner of last several leaves and inside back cover. Light to moderate foxing.
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$60.00
Benj. Georg Sporons eenstydige Danske Ords Bemarkelse, oplyst ved Betragtninger og Exempler. Udgivet i alphabetisk orden med nogle faa Tillaeg af Ludvig Heiberg.
by Sporon, Benjamin Georg. -
Kopenhagen, Gyldendal, 1807. . Bestimmung gleichbedeutender dänischer Wörter, durch Bemerkungen und Beispiele erläutert". - Das Synonymen-Lexikon erschien zunächst in einzelnen Lieferungen 1775-1792, dann in 2 Bdn. 1794. - "Ein Werk voll philosophischen Scharfsinns u. feiner Kritik... Der Vf. bemerkt sehr richtig, daß es bei dieser Arbeit nicht darauf ankam, Ausdrücke zu sammeln, die völlig einer statt des andern gebraucht werden können, sondern nur solche, die durch eine oder die andre...
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€49.00
Sanskrit Grammar: Including both the Classical Language, and the Older Dialects, of Veda and Brahmana, 2nd ed
by William Dwight Whitney
Hardback. New.
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£83.45
The Concept of Language
by Wilson, Neil / N. L.; (Carl / C. G. Hempel)
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1959. First printing. Paperback. Very Good/Good. Association copy inscribed by Wilson to Carl G. Hempel (who is cited in the text) on the front flyleaf--also, Hempel has written in pencil the date he received the book there on the flyleaf. First edition, 1959. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 153 pp., Very Good+ copy in Good dust jacket, a bit of soiling or discoloration to the outer pages and the page-edges, light rubbing to the tips of the covers, soiling to the...
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$50.00
How Language Works
by Crystal, David
London: Penguin, 2005. Reprint, large 8vo, 500pp, VG Copy in VG DJ. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£9.00
Report of the Committee Appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to Translate the Inscription on the Rosetta Stone
[Philadelphia], 1859. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. (Philadelphia: 1859). 2nd ed, illustrations, 152, [8]p. plus 24p. "Catalogue of members of the Philomathean Society" followed by a tipped-in slip with the copyright data. Original green cloth. Chipping at ends of backstrip. Front cover almost entirely detached (and may be entirely detached when purchased). Unnumbered pages 3-6 pulled at top with resultant bumping and wear along bottom edge of those two leaves. A couple other leaves are detached....
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$375.00
Language and Symbolic Systems
by Chao, Yuen Ren
Cambridge University Press, 1968. Softcover. Good. From the library of Kees Broos (name on endpaper).; Spine sunned.
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€10.00
DICTIONARY OF PROBLEM WORDS & EXPRESSIONS
by Shaw, Harry
New York: McGraw Hill Book Company. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. 1975. Hardcover. Book is in NF condition with small pen markings to inner front board else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges else bright, intact and whole.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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$12.50
Language & The Pursuit of Truth
by Wilson, John
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1958. Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small 8vo. [4], v-xii, 13-105, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 9s. 6d. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. First published in 1956, this is the first reprint listed on the copyright page, done in 1958. A name on the front pastedown; jacket has the top corner of its front flap clipped.
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$33.00
Principes de Grammaire Turque ("Turk" de Turquie)
by Jean Deny
Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1955. Soft cover. Fair/No jacket. French edition. Cover is worn along edges. Cover is tanned and stained, not affecting legibility. Pages are tanned, but text is clean and unmarked.
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$46.50
Altägyptische Grammatik. BAND 1 und 2 (von 3) apart.
by Edel, Elmar
Rom, Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1955 u. 1964. . Ohne den Registerband [= Register der Zitate. Bearb. von Rolf Gundlach u. Barbara Schwarzkopf. Rom 1967]. - Elmar Edel (1914-1997), Ägyptologe u. Hetithologe, wurde 1955 außerordentlicher, 1963 dann ordentlicher Professor für Ägyptologie an der Universität Bonn; er war auch archäologisch tätig u. untersuchte 1959-1981 die Nekropole des Qubbet el-Hawa, deren ca 80 Felsgräber er in ihren ober- wie unterirdischen Abschnitten mit allen...
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€500.00
Linguistic Controversies
by Crystal, David
Edward Arnold. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Some edgewear to the top edge of the DJ. Owner's name on endpaper. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages .
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$14.00
Changing Perspectives on the 'Seicento': A Study in the Evolution of Taste
by Limentani, Uberto
[Cambridge]: Modern Language Review, 1981. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. [20] page offprint from the Modern Language Review in publisher's stapled wraps.
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$15.00
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
by Eric Partridge
Macmillan Co, 1937. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Macmillan Co,1937. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Covers are very worn. Corners and edges are rubbed, top of spine has piece missing.Front inside hinge is cracked and showing some webbing. Foxing on front and back inside covers and first few pages of text, otherwise pages are clean and toned. Good reading copy.
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$56.60
Lessons in Elementary Wen-Li
by Baller, F. W
Shanghai: The China Inland Mission, 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. index, ix, 128p. Original 1/4 leather (with dark cloth). 24 cm. Leather backstrip dry and somewhat scuffed. Text in Wen-Li (Literary Chinese) and English.
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$125.00
Language Shifts Among the Scheduled Tribes in India: A Geographical Study
by Ishtiaq, M
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1999. Hardcover in good condition. First edition. One or two small marks to the rear board. Jacket is sunned and edgeworn on the upper edges and leading corners. Stamp on the page block face. The front pastedown and endpaper show signs of discolouration. Half title page and dedication page have a crease by the lower gutter. Some signs of dampness on the rear endpaper possibly due to some of the adhesive. The binding is a little loose at the front and back, however...
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£17.58
A Hand-Book of Luganda with Elementary Luganda Exercises
by Pilkington, G. L
S.P.C.K., 1937. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Hand-Book: 95 pages; Elementary Exercises: 44 pages. Folding 'Table of Contents' opposite the title page. Hand-Book originally published in 1901. First edition thus. A very good copy in brown cloth covers with title in black on fron tcover. Edge and corner wear. Staining to rear endpapers. No dust jacket.
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$31.25
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Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. June, 1880. [Issue No. 5]
by Royal Asiatic Society. Straits Branch
Singapore: Printed at the Government Printing Office, 1880. Paperback. Poor. 160p. plus a leaf following page 68, printed and numbered (68a) on one side. Softcover in original wrapper. 22cm. Cover worn, lacking almost all of backstrip and with front cover detached and chipped. Contents reasonably sound although the upper right corner has been nibbled enthusiastically in last half with no loss of text.
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$75.00
Sound of the Drum: Australian Slang Sampler
by Qantas Airlines
[Winton]: Qantas Airlines, 1966. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 12.5 by 9 cm. 8pp. Pages tanned, else very good in publisher's stapled wraps.
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$25.00
Die Lautveranderung Aztekischer Worter in den Sonorischen Sprachen und die Sonorische Endung AME
by Buschmann, Johann Karl Edward, 1805-1880
Berlin: Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Hardcover. Good. [433]-557p. Boards. 29cm. Hinges reinforced with paper tape. Ex lib. Mostly unopened. Reprinted from Abhandlungen der Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1856. German text.
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$60.00
The State of the Language
by Michaels, Leonard: & Ricks, Christopher (editors)
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1980. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of black spine strip and to corners of yellow boards, a bit of old damp-marking to boards, original owner's name and date (1980) on f/ep, but otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. A collection of essays by various authors on aspects of the English language as of (mostly) the late 1970s. A heavy book, packaged weight is over 1kg, so extra postage...
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£6.00
Espana a Vista de Pajaro
by Breton, Concha and Rose Martin
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1957 Second printing in hardcover without dust jacket. Hint of a spine twist, some rubbing to the boards. Very Good.
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$14.95
