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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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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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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Frank, Carl, Herausgeber. Strassburger Keilschrifttexte in sumerischer und babylonischer Sprache. Berlin und Leipzig: Walter De Gruyter, 1928. Small 4to. 36 pages and 20 pages of plates. Schriften der Strassburger Wissenschaflichen Gesellschaft in Heidelberg, Neue Folge 9. Heft. Text in German. Good stiff (soft cover); edges worn and slightly torn. #29012. $27.50
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Harris, Alice C. Endoclitics and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 1st printing. xvi, 299 pages. Index. Bibliography. 'Udi is an endangered language which belongs to the Lezgian subgroup of the North East Caucasian (Nakh-Daghestan, NEC) language family. - Preface. As New hardcover in As New good dust jacket. ISBN 0199246335. #29317. $40
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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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Kimpel, Dieter, Herausgeber. Mehrsprachigkeit in der Deutschen Aufklarung. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1985. 1st printing. vi, 239 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Studien zum Achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Deutsche Gesellschaft fur die Erforschung des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, 5. Text in German. Very good hardcover; spine sunned; name stamp on blank front free flyleaf. ISBN 3787306242. #29411. $40
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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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Leeuwen, J. van, Jr., en M. B. Mendes da Costa. Attische Vormleer. Leiden, Netherlands: A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1918. 281 pages. Negende druk, bewerkt door M. B. Mendes da Costa. Text in Dutch. Good hardcover; 1/4 cloth and boards. Lacks front cover or spine title, may have been rebound. Former owner's name on blank front flyleaf and name stamp on top edge of title page. #29311. $32.50
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Leeuwen, J. van, Jr. Schoolwoordenboek op the Gedichten van Homerus. Leiden, Netherlands: A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1913. Tweede druk. 213 pages. Text in Dutch. Good hardcover; brown cloth, edges and corners slightly rubbed; some ink stains. Former owners' names in ink on blank front flyleaf. #29312. $25
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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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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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Rice, Lester A. Hungarian Morphological Irregularities. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Slavica Publishers, 1970. 80 pages. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover); cover edges sunned. #29070. $15
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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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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. $19
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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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Worsham, Lynn, and Gary A. Olson, editor. Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric and Culture in a Posthuman Age. Foreword by Cynthia Y. Selfe. Cresskill, New Jersey: Hampton Press, 2008. 1st printing. x, 233 pages. Index. Bibliography. New Dimensions in Computers and Composition. A collection of ten essays examining the role of technology in redefining rhetoric, writing, and 'the human.' - Rear cover. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 9781572738348. #29290. $45
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