Search Results: Language and Linguistics from The Owl at the Bridge

Hard Cover. Contents include Before History, The Egyptians, The Phoenicians, The Greeks, The Romans, Small Letters, Carolina & Gothic Letters, The Invention of Type, Printing and the Alphabet, The Alphabet Today. 294 pages, index, illustrations throughout in red & black; Very Good in lightlyworn dust jacket. Stock#32933/h.

Tubingen, Max Niemeyer, 1959.. Soft Cover. 68 p. (p. 67 is folding sheet) 22 cm. Grammar of Old High German (750-1050) and Old Saxon. Pencil annotations by a serious student. Stock #29,163. Vg/ wrappers.

Chicago UP [1975]. Soft Cover. 191 p., illus.; 22.5 cm. Contributors include Miller & Ervin; Chomsky; Brown, Fraser, Bellugi; Lees; Bullowa, Jones, Bever; Hymes; Chan, Lenneberg, Rebelsky; Halle, Teuber; Jenkins & Palermo; Kagan; Deese, Moore. Stock#32022x. Vg/paperback.

London & NY, Oxford University Press, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. viii, 507 p., [1] leaf of plates, 1 color illus.; 23.5 cm. Contents: Understanding as Translation; Language and Gnosis; Word against Object; The Claims of Theory; The Hermeneutic Motion; Topologies of Culture; Bibliography: p. [475]-484. Stock#45719. Vg / dj vg.

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1954. Hard Cover. v, 186 p. illus., 20.5 cm. Four parts: What is language,? How does language work,? Our Language [English], Other people's languages. Stock# 32,008. Vg, despite ex-lib. marks/ dj good+.

[Port-au-Prince, Haiti?] [s.n.] 1976. Soft Cover. 48 p.; 20.5 cm. "Roman sa-a té parèt déja ti moso pa ti moso nam jounal Boukan pou lané 1967 la. --Sé Carrié Paultre ki ékri-l" -- p. [5]. This work contrasts superficial conquests with love, while revealing underlying assumptions concerning love and marriage in Haitian society. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47196. Vg / soft cover.

N.Y., Knopf, MCMXXX [1930]. Hard Cover. ix, 489 p. Third edition, revised and enlarged; first published in 1919. Mencken sought to identify the ways in which Americans used words differently than standard English. Good+/ no dj. 101572.

N.Y., Knopf, 1962. Hard Cover. xiii, 890, xliii p. First published 1948. "Deals with American spelling and pronunciation, the vulgar speech, proper names both personal and geographical, and slang and argot." Vg/ dj vg. 101574.

HarperPerennial [c1994]. Soft Cover. Abridged edition of 'American Sign Language'. xvii, 614 p., illus., 24 cm.; color pictorial paper covers; VG+. 31929.

N.Y., Knopf, 1962. Hard Cover. xv, 739, xxxv p. First published 1945. "Though of particular usefulness in conjunction with The American Language, this Supplement is nevertheless an independent work and may be read without reference to its predecessor." Vg/vg. 101573.

A La Haye, Chez Antoine Van Dole. MDCCXXXIX [1739]. First published in Paris the same year; cf. Cioranescu (18th Cent.) 13210. The author wonders if animals can communicate through the sounds they make and, if so, what this means philosophically/ theologically. This Hague reprint contains an eight-page defence by the Jesuit author of charges which led the book to be proscribed in France. Hard Cover. 135, 8 pages; 16 cm. Bound in full contemporary binding. stock#NS0163. Vg, binding worn at hinges.

Paris, Chez Gissey... Bordelet... Ganeau... MDCCXXXIX. [1739]. Hard Cover. 1 p. l., 157, [158]-[162] pages; 15.5 cm. Cioranescu (18th Cent.) 13210. The book wonders if animals can communicate through the sounds they make and, if so, what this means philosophically / theologically. The Hague reprint of the same year contains an eight-page defence by the Jesuit author of charges which led the book to be proscribed in France. Good+, 19th-century half leather, mottled paper-covered boards. stock#OB460.

Cambridge, MIT Press [1969]. 'Beginning in the middle fifties and emanating largely from M.I.T., an approach was developed to linguistic theory and to the study of the structure of particular languages that diverges in many respects from modern linguistics. ...The major purpose of this book is to... propose a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar... The emphasis in this study is syntax; semantic and phonological aspects of language structure are discussed only insofar as they bear on syntactic theory.' Soft Cover. 251 pages, index; Paper; good+. Copy of Albert S. Cook, poet & critic, with his pencil notes. Stock#21961ax.

Paris, H. Champion, 1908 & 1909. Regional dialects of France during the late Medieval and Early Modern period. Bound for Romance-language linguist Max Leopold Wagner (1880-1962); later passed into possession of Urciolo. Hard Cover. Fascicules 31, 32, 33, with 100 maps in each; 54.5 cm. Title-page & introductory sheets for fasc. 31 are missing; those for 32 and 33 are bound in. Bound in sturdy green cloth; large and heavy; textblock beginning to separate from spine. Stock#46217/h.

New York, Pitman Pub. Corp. [1959]. Hard Cover. xxii, [1], 294 p., 23.5 cm. A school text book for learning Russian. By the founding Director of the M<iddlebury Russian School. Stock# 43,657 Vg, some pencil ank a few ink annotations/ no dj.

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. 245 p., illus.; 24 cm. 22 articles incl. The writer as self-translator, Raymond Federman; "The same old stories": Beckett's poetics of translation, Lori Chamberlain; The relationship between compagnie and company: one work, two texts, two fictive universes, Brian T. Fitch; Une voix pas la mienne: French/English Beckett and the French/English reader, Marjorie Perloff. Stock#45896. Vg/ dj vg.

Edinburgh University Press [1966]. Hard Cover. x, 173 p.; 22.5 cm. "An exhaustive examination into the effects of bilingual education of Irish primary school children, for most of whom English is the mother tongue." Bibliography: p. [151]-161. Stock#46806. Vg / dj vg.

[Madrid] Editorial Gredos [1961]. First Edition. "Gives dates of origin of words, with quotations showing usages and derivatives." Sheehy (10th) AD734n. Hard Cover. 610 pages; 25 cm. Vg / no dj. Stock#45534.

Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. vii, 489 p., illus., maps (chiefly color); 28.5 cm. Contents: Modelling English; The origins of English; Old English; Middle English; Early modern English; Modern English; World English; The nature of the lexicon; The sources of the lexicon; Etymology; The structure of the lexicon; Lexical dimensions; Grammatical mythology; The structure of words; Word classes; The structure of sentences; The sound system; The writing system; Varieties of discourse; Regional variation; Social variation; Personal variation; Learning English as a mother tongue; New ways of studying English. Stock#45866. Fine, new from publisher, in shrinkwrap / dj fine.

NY, Macmillan, 1981, c1962. Hard Cover. xvi, 762, 655 pages; 24 cm. Title continues: "anglais-français. Completely revised by Denis Girard with the assistance of Gaston Dulong, Oliver Van Oss, Charles Guinness". ISBN (10): 002522610X. Stock#46706. Fine / dj fine.