Search Results: Languages and Linguistics from JimsOldBooks

Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 1975. A minor crease to the slightly faded spine, very slight scuffing to corners of cover, otherwise a good tight copy of this soft-cover book. A collection of pieces by various authors, all originally given at the Second Annual Colloquium on New Ways of Analyzing Variation held at Georgetown University in 1973. 327pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lerwick, Shetland: Shetland Arts Trust, 2004. A slight crease to bottom corner of front cover, slight scuffing to spine ends, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this large-format (about 12" high by 8" wide) soft-cover book. Contains the texts of the papers delivered at the two-day conference on Shetland dialect held in Scalloway on 26th and 27th March 2004. Some of the papers are written in Shetland dialect. 70pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Faber and Faber, 1964. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, original owner's name on f/ep, otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. A collection of texts given in phonetic (IPA) symbols, aimed at those studying phonetics and phonology of English. 125pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Paperback Phoenix Books edition. Some scuffing to spine ends and to corenrs of cover, a previous owner's name on f/ep, slight yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good tight copy of this slim soft-cover book. Originally published in 1957, this is a fourth impression from 1963. A collection of essays by the author on linguistical topics. 108pp. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Paperback edition. Slight scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, original owner's name and date (1978) on f/ep, otherwise a good tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. 301pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth, 1971. Esperanto edition. A tiny bit of bumping to spine ends, otherwise a very good clean tight copy of this slim hard-cover book. "The Ladybird Book of London" translated into Esperanto by J C Wells, , this is the only Ladybird title in that language. Issued as part of an "Accelerated" course by the Esperanto Association of Britain. 51pp, colour illustration throughout, endpapers show a map of London (front) and underground map (back).. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Routledge, 1989. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, slight bumping to spine ends of black boards, some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover book. Looks at the development of linguistic theory in the Western tradition using short extracts from significant texts on the subject, with each followed by commentary by the authors. 199pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1978. Minor scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, slight yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good tight copy of this slim soft-cover book, part of the publisher's "Language and Language Learning" series. This book contains two monographs; "On Defining Style" by Nils Erik Enkvist, and "An Approach to the Study of Style" by John Spencer and Michael Gregory. 109pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. Some creasing to the spine, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this soft-cover book. A collection of twenty-two pieces by various authors, all originally given at the first International Conference on Minority Languages in 1980. Includes pieces on Gaelic (Scots and Irish), Welsh, Lowland Scots, Nynorsk, Swedish (in Finland), Danish (in Germany), German (in Belgium), Friesian, Faroese, British Sign Language and others. 250ppp.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. Very slight creasing to outer corners of cover, otherwise a very good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine and no notes or underlining in the text. Intended for upper-level undergraduate or postgraduate readers, the book looks at Bilingualism from a socio-political point-of-view. 457pp.. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Paperback edition. Slight creasing to the slightly faded spine, minor scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, a previous owner's name on f/ep, otherwise a good tight copy of this soft-cover book. A collection of pieces by various authors, all originally given at a conference held at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica in April 1968. 530pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Routledge, 1990. A crease to top corner od front cover, otherwisea good clean tight copy of this slim soft-cover book. Originally published in 1974, this is a second edition from 1990. Looks at English-based pidgin and creole languages, mostly of African and Caribbean origins. 117pp. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1970. Some minor scuffing to spine ends and corners of cover, some brown discoloration to spine and top edge of cover (not with tobacco), some yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good tight copy of this soft-cover book. Part of the publisher's "Language and Language Learning" series, a collection of essays by various authors on aspects of Prosodic Analysis. 256pp.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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 would be required from buyers outside the UK. 609pp.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Routledge, 1990. Slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends of brown boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Contains pieces by various authors on aspects of the pronunciation of English (in Britain and further afield). 373pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981. A good clean tight copy with no creasing to the spine or covers of this paperback book in which the author looks at word order and sentence structure in the German language from the fifteenth century to the present. 241pp.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.