Language, Linguistics & Dictionaries

Ball, Allan Perley. The Satire of Seneca on the Apotheosis of Claudius, Commonly Called the Apocolocyntosis. A Study. New York: Columbia University Press, 1902. vii, 256 pages. Index. Columbia University Studies in Classical Philology. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine call number, stamp on top edge, stamp on copyright page, stamp on rear flyleaf; pocket inside rear cover. Most of the pages are still unopened, but some have been opened carelessly and have some tears. #26904. $35
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Bechade, Herve D. Grammaire francaise. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994. xviii, 314 pages. Index. Text in French. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. ISBN 2130466303. #25037. $20
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Comprehensive Glossary of Technical Terms. Comprehensive Glossary of Technical Terms - Science - Hindi-English: Botany, Chemistry, Geography, Geology, Home Science, Mathematics, Physics. India: Publication information in Hindi, 1980. 819 pages. Editorial and introductory pages in Hindi. Text in Hindi, glossary in Hindi and English. Fair hardcover, hinges weak, front and rear cover partially detached, covers stained. Internally sound. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on all edges, stamp inside front cover, on front flyleaf, on title page; library pocket inside rear cover. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #24011. $100
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Congres International des Slavistes. VII Congres International des Slavistes, Varsovie, 21-27 aout 1973. Communications de la delegation francaise. Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1973. Small 4to (medium-large book). 374 pages. Illustrations. Text in French. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #23262. $25
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Derrida, Jacques. Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles. English translation by Barbara Harlow. Drawings by Francois Loubrieu. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. Narrow 8vo. 165 pages. Illustrations. Includes 'Coup upon Coup: An Introduction to Spurs,' by Stefano Agosti. Text in English and French on facing pages. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Some underlining and marginalia. ISBN 0226143309. #26999. $25
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Dinnsen, Daniel A., editor. Current Approaches to Phonological Theory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979. xiii, 335 pages. Bibliography. Based on papers and discussions from the Conference on the Differentiation of Current Phonological Theories held at Indiana University, Bloomington, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 1977. Good hardcover. ISBN 0253315964. #20617. $60
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Dutt, Nalinaksha. Early Monastic Buddhism. Volume II. Calcutta: Calcutta Oriental Book Agency, 1945. vii, 349 pages. Index. Calcutta Oriental Series, 30. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); front cover torn; backstrip partially loose, name and stamp inside front cover, stamps on all edges, and stamp inside rear cover. Internally sound. #27588. $35
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Fawcett, Robin P. Cognitive Linguistic and Social Interaction toward an Integrated Model of a Systemic Functional Grammar and the Other Components of a Communicating Mind. Preface by Reinhard R. K. Hartmann. Heidelberg: Julius Groos Verlag and University of Exeter, 1980. xiii, 290 pages. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Folding plates. Exeter Linguistic Studies, 3. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 3872762281. #28408. $35
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Fisiak, Jacek, editor. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics. Volume One. Karpacz Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, 16-18 December 1971. Poznan: Adam Mickiewicz University & Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1973. 1st printing. Small 4to (medium-large book). 142 pages. Bibliography. Contributors include Waldemar Marton, Tadeusz Zabrocki, Maria Lipinska, Wolf-Dietrich Bald, Stefan Konderski, Piotr Kakietek, Anna Morel, Andrzej Kopczynski, Bogdan Lawendowski, Tomasz P. Krzeszowski, and Elzbieta Muskat-Tabakowska. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover), top part of spine frayed and worn. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #24714. $35
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Haidari, Amir Abbas. Modern Persian Reader. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1975. 1st printing. 37 pages and numerous pages with Persian page number. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Text in English and Persian. Exlibrary: Very good Mylar-covered softcover; call number on spine, stamp on top edge, stamp on title page and rear flyleaf. ISBN 0728600064. #28294. $30
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Harkins, William E., and Klement Simoncic. Czech and Slovak Literature. With a Bibliography on Lusatian Literature by Clarence A. Manning. New York: Kings Crown Press, Columbia University Press, 1950. vii, 50 pages. Bibliography. Columbia University, Department of Slavic Languages, Slavic Studies, Slavic Bibliography Series. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover), covers slightly sunned. #27710. $25
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Hatch, Evelyn, and Hossein Farhady. Research Design and Statistics for Applied Linguistics. Rowley, Massachusetts: Newbury House Publishers, 1982. 1st printing. xvii, 290 pages. Index. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover), edges and corners slightly rubbed; unrelated gift inscription on title page. ISBN 0883772027. #27879. $60
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Hoeksema, Jack. Categorial Morphology. New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. 237 pages. Bibliography. Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. A Garland Series. Comparative and general grammar of Dutch-language compound words. Very good hardcover. Pages damp-wrinkled and some dampstain inside covers. ISBN 0824054814. #23739. $35
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Laistner, M. L. W., editor. Isocrates De Pace and Philippus. Historical Introduction and Commentary by the editor. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Facsimile reprint. 173 pages. Index. Bibliography. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology, XXII. First published for Cornell University by Longmans, Green in 1927. Text in Greek and English. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label removed, stamps on top and bottom edges, stamp on front flyleaf; pocked removed from rear flyleaf. #26896. $30
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Lange, Victor, und Hans-Gert Roloff, editors. Dichtung, Sprache, Gesellschaft: Akten des IV. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongress 1970 Princeton. Frankfurt: Athenaum Verlag, 1971. x, 635 pages. Index. Bibliography. Photographs. Illustrations. Beiheft zum Jahrbuch fur Internationale Germanistik, 1. Text in German. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #23806. $20
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McQuade, Donald A. The Territory of Language: Linguistics, Stylistics, and the Teaching of Composition. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. 1st printing. xiv, 389 pages. Very good hardcover. ISBN 0809312174. #23893. $30
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Mulligan, William H., Jr., editor. A Historical Dictionary of American Industrial Language. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988. 1st printing. xii, 332 pages. Index. Bibliography. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label marks, stamp and sticker on front flyleaf. ISBN 0313241716. #26892. $27.50
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O Cuiv, Shan. The Sounds of Irish. Preface by Osborn Bergin. Dublin, Belfast: Brown & Nolan, 1921. 12mo (small book). 79 pages. Illustrations. A book to teach Irish phonetically. Good hardcover, spine sunned and faded, front cover partially faded; former owner's name on front flyleaf. #25745. $30
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Pietramellara, Giacomo. Raccolta di Divisi o Motti Araldici. Seri I. Roma: Tipograpfia Poliglotta, 1896. 1st printing. v, 94 pages. Index. Text in Italian. Good hardcover. Bookplate of Francisi de Neapolis, Ducis Campobelli inside front cover. #18955. $20
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Schievella, P. S. Critical Analysis: Language and Its Functions. New York: Humanities Press, 1968. 124 pages. Index. Bibliography. Good hardcover in worn, slightly torn and chipped dust jacket. Name in ink on flyleaf. #20528. $15
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Shin, Sang-Soon, Don-Ju Lee, and Hwan-Mook Lee, editors. Understanding Hunmin-jong.um. Seoul, Korea: Hanshin Publishing Company, 1990. 395 pages. Bibliographical references. CNU Series in Linguistics, 3. The papers collected in this volume stem from the presentations given at the Conference on Hunmin-jong.um held at Chonnam National University on Oct, 24, 1987. - Preface. Translated by Language Research Center, Chonnam National University. Appendix A: Hunmin-jong.um Haerye (The Original Text). Appendix B: A Korean Translation. Text in English and Korean. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. #28016. $70
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Simpson, C. G. The Turkish Language of Soviet Azerbaijan. Selections from The Press and from Modern Authors with a Grammatical Introduction. London: Central Asian Research Centre, in association St. Antony's College (Oxford) Soviet Affairs Study Group, 1957. Small 4to (medium-large book). ii, 124 pages. Good softcover, covers slightly soiled and worn. #19076. $30
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Smeets, Rieks (Henricus Joannes). Studies in West Circassian Phonology and Morphology. Leiden: Hakuchi Press, 1984. 490 pages. Bibliographical references. Errata sheet laid in. The author's Ph.D. dissertation at the Rijksuniversiteit in Leiden. 'This book is a contribution to the study of Circassian, a West Caucasian language. The description focusses on the language of a group of Circassians in Anatolian Turkey living in and around the town of Duzce. They speak a form of Shapsug, a West Circassian dialect. The Duzce Shapsug data were collected both in Turkey and in the Netherlands.' - Preface. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover); former owner's name title page. ISBN 9071176010. #28511. $150
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Smith, Harlie L., A. Nashat Naja, and James A. Snow, editors. Modern Written Arabic. Washington, D.C.: Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, 1969. Small 4to (medium-large books). 2 volumes. Foreign Service Institute Basic Course Series. Volume 2 published in 1974. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Some writing and underlining in volume 1. #26046. $70
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Tinglum, Ottar. A Brief Norse Grammar and Reader. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Nordisk Tidene, 1931. 96 pages. Part I: Grammar. Part II: Selections for Reading and Translation. Part III: Exercises. Also, a Vocabulary. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover), corners worn and chipped, lower part of backstrip missing; dampstains on outside edges of pages, not affecting text. #24073. $30
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Von Raffler-Engel, Walburga, Guest editor. Child Language--1975. New York: International Linguistic Association, 1975. vii, 531 pages. Word: Journal of the International Linguistic Association, Volumes 27, Number 1-2-3, April-August-December 1971. 'The purpose of this collection of essays is to show by actual examples that the acquisition of the child's mother tongue is part of his process of socialization...Each culture has its peculiar form of baby talk, the way in which one talks to infants and small children.' - Introduction. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). Upper corner of rear cover missing. #23459. $60
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Welskopf, Elisabeth Charlotte, editor. Soziale Typenbegriffe im alten Griechenland und ihr Fortleben in den Sprachen der Welt. Band 1. Teil 1. Belegstellenverzeichnis altgriechischer sozialer Typenbegriffe von Homer bis Aristoteles. Vorbemerkung von Rudolf Welskopf. Vorbemerkungen zu der Belegstellensammlung von Detlef Rossler. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1985. xxxvii, 1022 pages. Contents: Belegstellenverzeichnis altgriechischer sozialer Typenbegriffe von Homer bis Aristoteles, A-I. Introductory text in German, all other text in Greek. Good hardcover. Library call number on spine, library stamp on copyright page. #27029. $80
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