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The Language Instinct
by Steven Pinker
Originally published: New York : W. Morrow and Co., c1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-502) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-502) and index.
Language In Thought and Action
by S I Hayakawa
Language in Thought and Action is a book on semantics by Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, based on his previous work Language in Action published in 1939. Early editions were written in consultation with different people. The current 5th edition was published in 1991. It was updated by Hayakawa's son, Alan R. Hayakawa and has an introduction by Robert MacNeil. Its Library of Congress control number is 92033105. The book has sold over one million copies and has been translated into eight languages.
Made In America
by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.Bill Bryson turns away form the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture.In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land -...
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The Stuff Of Thought
by Steven Pinker
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books?including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate?have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today?s most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our...
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Language and Mind
by Noam Chomsky
This is the long-awaited third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This new edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system...
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Syntactic Structures
by Noam Chomsky
Syntactic Structures is an influential book by American linguist Noam Chomsky, first published in 1957. Widely regarded as one of the most important texts in the field of linguistics, this work laid the foundation of Chomsky's idea of transformational grammar. The book contains the well-known example of a sentence that is completely grammatical, yet completely nonsensical in "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Grammar Of the Arabic Language A
by W Wright
Reprint of the 1st pbk. ed. containing both volumes. Originally published in 1967.
Translation of: Grammatica Arabica.
Translation of: Grammatica Arabica.
Linguistics Books & Ephemera
Origins Of the Specious
by O'Conner, Patricia T ; Kellerman, Stewart
Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces "niche" as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with "and," or says "octopuses" instead of "octopi"? Do you think British spellings are more "civilised" than the American versions? Would you bet the bank that "jeep" got its start as a military term and "SOS" as an acronym for "Save Our Ship"? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you're myth-informed. Go stand in the corner--and read this book!In Origins of the...
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![Lanmou pa gin baryè. Woman [sic: Roman]. Premye épók](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/509/928509325.0.b.jpg)
Lanmou pa gin baryè. Woman [sic: Roman]. Premye épók
by Célestin-Mégie, Emile
Port-au-Prince: Fardin, 1984. Soft Cover. 215 pages, 19 cm. 'Premye épók' = first volume (of 3). First edition, 1975. Novel in Haitian Creole language. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47183. Vg / softcover.
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
by Steiner, George, 1929-
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.
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Istoua ti moun yo rakont'e-m
by Orjala, Paul R. ( Richard), 1925-2005
Port-au-Prince: Comité Protestant d'Alphabetisation et de Littérature, 1970. Soft Cover. 24 p., illus.; 21 cm. Reprinted from 1961 original. From 1950 to 1964, Orjala pioneered the work of the Church in Haiti and while there organized and conducted the Bible Training School. In Haitian. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47197. Vg / dj vg.
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Observing and Analysing Natural Language: A Critical Account of Sociolinguistic Method
by Lesley Milroy
Paperback / softback. New. Social networks ---- those informal and formal social relationships of which any human society is composed ---- are distinguished by their own patters of language use.
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£46.26
Mandarin in Four Weeks by Sya Syin-Ke.
by Sya Syin-Ke
Softcover. xiv, 184, 43 pages, 2 folding maps (Taiwan, Taipei), folding errata table; 18.5 cm. Uses Yale romanization. Contents include Introduction to Chinese Sounds; Days in a Week; What Is This?; What Are You Doing?; Season, Month, and Day; A Man and his Clothing; Who Is He?; Speaking Chinese; Where Are You Staying?; Hours of the Day; Sons v. Daighters; Food for Today's Dishes; Going to Town by City Bus; Where Have You Been?; How Do You Spend Your Sundays?; National Holiday; Is That Chang's...
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Random House Spanish-English English-Spanish Dictionary.
by Raventós, Margaret H. (Hambleton) & David L. Gold
Random House, NY [c1999]. Soft Cover. xxvi, 694 pages; 21 cm. Paper; front cover curled, evidence of water in upper textblock but neither mold nor stain; good. stock#45809.
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£4.05£1.62
Catéchisme Créole
by Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Impr. La Phalange, 1975. Soft Cover. 134 pages; 20 cm. The Catholic counter to the Protestant catechisms published in Haiti. Printed in both Creole / Kreol language and French on facing pages, and with French framing. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47187. Vg / softcover.
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Introductory Linguistics [by] Robert A. Hall, Jr.
by Hall, Robert A. (Anderson), 1911-1997
Philadelphia, Chilton Books, c1964. Hard Cover. xiii, 508 p., illus.; 25 cm. Chapters: The description of language; Linguistic geography; Writing and language; Linguistic change; Linguistics and related fields; The uses of linguistics. Stock#46322. Vg; no dj.
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Vocabulario de las dos lenguas Toscana y Castellana de Cristóbal de Las Casas, Sevilla, 1570
by Casas, Cristóbal de las, d. 1576. Kossoff, A. (Aron) David, 1918-1995
Madrid: Ediciones Itsmo para Wareham Imprints, 1988. Hard Cover. xxiv, 248 p.; 21 cm. Prólogo de Juan M. Lope Blanch. Edición de A. David Kossoff. Facsimile reprint; previously published Sevilla, 1570. Errata slip inserted. David Kosoff intended to publish facsimile reprints in his retirement from Hispanic Studies at Brown. Cheap printing in Spain would allow him generous profit margins. When the books arrived in Wareham (Mass., his retirement home), the printing was lighter than in the original and...
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The Elements of Style. With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing...
by Strunk, William, Jr., 1869-1946. White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)
Macmillan [c1979]. 'Third Edition'. Soft Cover. 92 p., index; 21 cm. Contents: Elementary Rules of Usage; Elementary Principles of Composition; A Few Matters of Form; Words and Expressions Commonly Misused; An Approach to Style (With a List of Reminders). Paper; VG+. ISBN 0024182001. stock#46680.
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Chrestomathie du Moyen Age.
by Paris, G. (Bruno Paulin Gaston), 1839-1903, & E. (Ernest) Langlois, 1857-1932
Librairie Hachette, Paris [192-?]. Contents include Origine de la langue française; Poésie épique; Romans bretons; Chantefable; Fableaux; Fables; Roman de Renard; Histoire; Roman de la Rose; Satire; Villon; Poésie lyrique; Littérature dramatique. Hard Cover. xciii, 368 pages; 15.5 cm. Paper over boards, blue cloth spine; minor wear, pages darkened, bookplate; good. stock#45522.
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£6.07£2.43
Language History from 'Language' (1933 Edition) Edited by Harry Hoijer
by Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949. Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976
NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston [1965]. Soft Cover. vii, 281-512 p., illus., maps; 21 cm. "A reprint of chapters 17-27 of... [the author's] Language (1933)." Bibliography: p. 563. Stock#46805. Vg / soft cover.
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Jénéral Rodrig: Priès-téyat an 5 ak. Nono Numa.
by Numa, Saint Arnaud. Pauris Jean-Baptiste
Pôtoprins [Port au Prince, Haiti] Edision Bon nouvel, 1975. Introduction by Pauris Jean-Baptiste. Play written in the Haitian language (the 11th Romance language). Entirely in Haitian. Soft Cover. v, [7]-62 pages, [2] leaves of plates, illus.; 20.5 cm. From the library of linguist Raphael G. Urciolo. VG. Stock#47195.
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Katechis Nasional Kreol II. Jezu Kri Se Tout Vi Nou
by Pa-M, Kaye. Bureau Catechetique National
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Impr. La Phalange, 1966. Soft Cover. 97 p.; 20.5 cm. A Catholic aid to the catechism. In Haitian. No copy in WorldCat. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47190. Vg / soft cover.
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Language and its Structure. Some Fundamental Linguistic Concepts
by Langacker, Ronald W
NY, Harcourt, Brace & World [1968]. Soft Cover. ix, 260 p.; 23 cm. Chapters: By way of introduction; An initial look at language; Language in society; The organization of grammar; Syntactic systems; Phonological systems; Language change; Genetic relationships; The universality of language design. Stock#46372. Vg / soft cover.
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Déita Lan Majodyol.
by Déita (pseudonym of Marika Roumain Fouche)
[Cambria Heights, NY, Direktris Word Processing Center, 1981]. Haitian poetry. Cover title; date, "Septanb 1981", page [42]. Inscribed in Haitian to distinguished linguist Raphael Urciolo. 41 pages; 22 cm. Vg / softcover. Stock#47194.
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Cultura Neolatina... Anno XIX, Fasc. 1-2, 1959
by Monteverdi, Angelo & Aurelio Roncaglia, editors
1959, SocietàTipografica Modenese for Universitàdi Roma. Periodical. 172 p.; 27.5 cm. Bollettino dell'Istituto di Filologia Romanza XIX: 1-2. Contents include Tavani, Il canzoniere del giullare Lourenço. 1. Cantigas de amor e cantigas de amigo; Hatcher, Compagnetto da Prato: A Sophisticated Jongleur; Ruggieri, La serietàdel 'Morgante'; Terracini, Appunti sulla 'coscienza...
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Beckett Translating / Translating Beckett. Edited by Alan Warren Friedman, Charles Rossman, Dina Sherzer
by Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989
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....
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![Mèt Larouzé: dapré roman Jak Roumin té ékri-a [Gouverneurs de la rosée]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/279/518/928518279.0.b.jpg)
Mèt Larouzé: dapré roman Jak Roumin té ékri-a [Gouverneurs de la rosée]
by Fanfan. Roumain, Jacques, 1907-1944
[Port-au-Prince, Haiti] Bon nouvèl [1980]. Soft Cover. 97, [3] p., chiefly illus.; 24 cm. In Haitian creole. Cartoon version of Roumin's novel 'Gouverneurs de la rosée', first published 1944. From the library of Raphael G. Urciolo. Stock#47184. Vg / soft cover.
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Formulistic Diction in the Spanish Ballad
by Webber, Ruth House
University of California Press, 1951. Soft Cover. University of California Publications in Modern Philology Vol. 34 No. 2, pp. 175-278. Contents incl. Formulas in the Spanish Ballad; Repetition in the Spanish Ballad; Formulistic Diction and Spanish Ballad Problems; Bibliography, p. 273-278. Paper; VG. stock#46112.
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£10.12£4.05
Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary Korean. Korean-English, English-Korean
by Langenscheidt (Firm)
NY & Berlin: Langenscheidt, ©2006. Hard Cover. 672 p.; 16 cm. Completely new edition. Provides more than 40,000 entries of idiomatic expressions and words along with a guide to pronunciation. "A convenient reference for writers, students, and business people; anyone who needs the right word at the right time. Poetry, prose, and a nine-letter pizza topping." ISBN (10): 1585730564. Stock#46985. Vg
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Nouveaux élémens de la Conversation, en Anglais et en Français
by Poppleton, G. H. / Genlis,Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de, 1746-1830
À Boston, Chez Cummings et Hilliard, 1820. Hard Cover. 71, viii, 145 pages; 18 cm. The 1825 English title by the same publishers is New Elements of Conversation, in English and French. A work composed upon the plan of that of Dr. Wanostrocht and John Perrin. By Professor G. Poppleton... Followed by the Manual of Idiotisms of Madame de Genlis. The Manual has special title-page and pagination and is dated 1817. American Imprints, 1820-1822 (two issues with slightly varied imprints); 1817--40900. The full...
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Parole a Buon Rendere, Ovvero, L'Invasione Dei Termini Anglo-Italiani...
by Italiano, Gloria
Fiesole (Firenze): Cadmo, 1999. Hard Cover. 140 p., illus.; 21 cm. An interesting examination of how English words and phrases have entered into Italian use and sometimes altered or enlarged Italian words and usage. ISBN (10): 8879231804. Stock#47858. Vg / soft cover.
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Teach Yourself Welsh. A Complete Course for Beginners
by Rhys Jones, T. J
NTC Publishing Group. series: Teach Yourself. Soft Cover. xviii, 334 p., index; 20 cm. "The course contains: A range of dialogues, key phrases, grammar and exercises; A detailed pronunciation guide; A special section on mutations; An extensive Welsh-English vocabulary; A description of differences between Northern and Southern Welsh dialects." ISBN 0844238414. Pictorial stiff paper covers; as new. stock#46819.
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Historical Linguistics: An Introduction
by Lehmann, Winfred P
Paperback. Very Good.
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