Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1927. First American. Orginal Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 22 pp. Light tears lower spine of wreaps. Light foxing on pages and on fold-out chart. More about ENGLISH VOWEL-SOUNDS - S.P.E. TRACT NO. XXVI
(Clevedon, UK; 1998): Multilingual Matters Ltd. First Edition. Thick Quarto. 758 pp. illustrated. This encyclopedia will raise awareness of language diversity, help reduce the prejudice and stereotyping that surrounds language minorities and inform about the beauty of bilingualism. Each topic presented is presented in a clear and understandable style,A fine... More about Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
New York; (1971): Humanities Press. Octavo. 231pp., (3)pp., This work was compiled from essays written by attending participants after a symposium was held in Jerusalem under the auspices of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science of the International Union... More about Progmatics of Natural Languages
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 288p. index; bibliographic references, More about Bilingualism in Develoment; Language, Literacy and Cognition
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Printing. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to., 702pp. The best single-volume encyclopedia in the diverse field of icons, signs, and symbols. In maroon cloth, with gold letters. More about Encyclopedia of Semiotics
Bayreuth, Germany: B. Seligsberg Antiquariatsbuchandlung, 1931. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. German text. 8vo., 316pp. A scholarly treatise on German names, their root and geographic origin. Text in Gothic German, Bound in light green paper wraps. Library bar-code sticker on rear endpaper. More about Oberdeutsches Flurnamenbuch: Ein Alphabetisch Geordneter Hand Weiser Fur Freunds Deutscher...
Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1979. Thick Quarto. 993 pp, text in Arabic with entries & derivatives printed in red for easy reference, Celebrating 35 years of international publishing, Librairie du Liban, 1944-1979.Bound in maroon simulated leather lettered in giltspine lettered and ruled in gilt, only very minor shelf wear to... More about Muhit-Ul-muhit: An Arabic-Arabic Dictionary
Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1977. Dust Jacket. Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 321 pp. Front cover dj lightly soiled. Upper corners of pages 19-190 creased, otherwise v.g. OP. Papers by C.A. Hooker, M.V. Popovich, R. Wojicki, H.A. Simon, V.N. Sadovsky and V.A. Smirnov, M...... More about BASIC PROBLEMS IN METHODOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS - PART THREE OF THE PROCEEDIGNS OF THE FIFTH...
Terre Haute, IN: Sagamore Press, 1979. First Edition. Stapled Wrap. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 51pp. Slight off-set shadowing on rear panel. With 4 page Checklist laid in. Library bar-code sticker on rear endpaper. More about Indiana Dialects in Their Historical Setting. With a Chapter on the Historical Context of...
New York; (2008): Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. Octavo. 370 p. includes Index and Appendices. Provides a detailed description and analysis of Educational Testing Service's research and development efforts to develop a major revision of the TOEFL. This book serves as a case study of test design drawing upon theory... More about Building a Validity Argument for the Test of English as a Foreign Lanuage
The Hague: Mouton, 1969. Original Wraps. Later Edition. 114 pp. Chomsky's first book in 8th printing in European edition. More about SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES - JANUA LINGUARUM STUPIA MEMORIAE NICOLAI VAN WIJK DEDICATA - SERIES MINOR...
Rowley, MA: Newbury House Publishers, 1971. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 193 pp. Upper front dj rough, with crases and tears. Rest of the dj lightly rubbed. More about LANGUAGE STRUCTURES IN CONTRAST
Amsterdam: Mouton & Co., 1985. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 238p. bibliography. More about Spanish Language Use and Public Life in the USA
New York: Mouton, 1971. Cloth/hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 357p. Appendix has word index of Lithuanian, Latvian, and related languages such as Old Prussian, Old Church Slavic and a half dozen others. Some notes in margins else a very good copy. More about Janis Endzelins' Comparative Phonology and Morphology of the Baltic Languages
Paris: Mouton, 1975. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 621pp. Text in English and Polish. Weintraub was a literary historian of Polish Literature, language and history. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt, A clean bright copy in very good dust jacket with a a couple of tiny closed edge tears and... More about For Wiktor Weintraub, Essays in Polish Literature, Language, and History Presented on the...
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2005. First Edition. Decorated Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 239pp. This volume brings together linguists, communications scholars, economists and ethnologists in an analysis of improving the storytelling impact of economics information. Name index. Subject index. In green and red colored boards. More about Language, Communication and the Economy
Kopenhagen: Dansk Historisk, 1977. Cloth. Ocatvo. Danish text. 4 volume set. Beautiful reprint of the classic late 19th century study of the Danish language and its dialects. Originally published 1886-1914. Moderately scarce. More about Bidrag Til En Ordbog Over Jyske Almuesmal (4 volumes
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 97pp. A guide and drills for learning the phonetic sound of Mandarin Chinese. Bound in maroon cloth boards, with gilt title on spine. More about Speak Mandarin. A Beginning Text in Spoken Chinese
The Hague: Mouton & Co. 1965. First Edition. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 54 pp. Ex-library copy, former owner's name in ink on frontpapers, moderate soiling on covers. More about INDIRECT OBJECT CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH AND THE ORDERING OF TRANSFORMATIONS
Praha: Ceske Graficke Unie A S, 1924. 3/4 Leather Over Cloth Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. 370p. Illustrations, portrais, fascsimiles. Czech Language. Known also for his studies on John Hus, he was the first great philologist of the Czech language. This edition deals with the history and... More about Nas Jazyk Matersky; Dejinty Jazyka Ceskeho a Vyvoj Spinsovne Slovensnstiny=Our mother tongue....
Philadelphia; (2009): John Benjamins Publishing Co. First Edition. Octavo. 389 p. Illustrations & Maps, some in color. The origin and evolution of language. Topics include Language and Archaeology; Language and Genes; Language Acquisition and Language Universals; Language and Animal Communication; Language Evolution and Computer Modeling. Bound paper covered boards accented... More about Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the Emergence of Lanuage, Human Cognition, and Modern Cultures
Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1989. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 256p. index. More about Hispanic-American Material Culture; an Annotated Directory of Collections, Sites, Archives and...
New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 267pp. The first treatise on word grammar, grounded firmly in theoretical fields of syntax and semantics. An important contribution to the field. In clean and tight form, exceptn for small green highlighting on pages 4, 50, and 109. More about Word Grammar
Amsterdam and Philadelphia (2010): Jon Benjamins Publishing Company. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 197 p. Index. "The purpose of this book is to suggest and nurture a kind of paradigmatic change within narrative studies." More about Beyond Narrative Coherence
London: For W. Strahan for J. & P. Knapton, T. & T. Longman, C. Hitch & L. Hawes, A. Millar, and R. & J. Dodsley, 1755. First Edition. Folio. Two Volumes. First issue reading of D7 (Bacon’s Natural History and Milton’s Paradise Lost ). Complete in two volumes, no pagination..... More about A Dictionary of the English Language: in Which The Words are Deduced From Their Originals....