Results for: Languages & Linguistics
Aggressor, the Manuever Enemy : Esperanto Language. Army Field Manual FM 30-101A.
Headquarters, Department of the Army, 1959.
Greatly expanded in 1962. Pamphlet. Slight browning and soiling to edges of covers and pages. Corners bumped a bit. 95 p. Includes introduction, grammar, and vocabulary. An uncommon Army pamphlet, for use in military exercises by an Aggressor force, "the use of which will enhance intelligence play and add realism to field exercises" (from the intro). The fictitious backstory states Esperanto has been formally adopted by the Aggressor country and is on its way to supplanting other dialects in that nation. Uncommon
Price: $35.00
Basque-English Dictionary.
Aulestia, Gorka.
Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1989.
Very good quart-sized hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with light bumping to lower corners of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with light scuffing to covers. Name and number written on upper corner of front free endpaper in blue ink. 558 pages. A nice reference work on the Basque language with sections on alphabet, word order, verbs, and many other topics besides the dictionary part of this work.
Price: $30.00
Zum Heutigen Stand der Sprachwissenschaft [ On the Current State of Linguistics ].
Brugmann, Karl.
Strassburg: Verlag von Karl J. Trübner, 1885.
Thin octavo (standard size). Some wear to edges and corners of boards, more so at head and heel of spine. Some foxing on pages. Some browning to page edges. 144 p. German scholar Brugmann (1849 - 1919) was a major figure in Indo-European linguistics, whose first two volumes of GRUNDRISS DER VERGLEICHENDEN GRAMMATIK DER INDOGERMANISCHEN SPRACHEN were his most important works. This work was published one year before the GRUNDRISS, and includes sections titled "Sprachwissenschaft und Philologie" [ Linguistics and Philiogy ] and "Erwiederung auf Georg Curtius' Schrift Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung" [ A Reply to George Curtuis' Work "On the the Criticism of the Latest Linguistic Research" ]. Curtius was a German philologist who died the same year as this work was published. Text of this work is entirely in German.
Price: $50.00
Language, Thought, and Consciousness : An Essay in Philosophical Psychology.
Carruthers, Peter.
Cambridge University Press, 1996..
1st edition. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of the boards. Dj is lightly worn and rubbed along edges with light scuffing on covers. 291 pages with references and index. An interesting work that "makes a fresh contribution to an ancient debate, and claims, in contrast to much recent work in philosophy and cognitive science, that the independence of thought from language is by no means clear-cut." (dj blurb).
Price: $35.00
The Sound Pattern of English.
Chomsky, Noam, and Morris Halle.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968..
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with a few small tears and chipping mainly located near head of spine. Dj's covers are also scratched and scuffed. Name and date written on front free endpaper in ink. Light browning to page edges. 470 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $20.00
A New Dictionary of Americanisms : Being a Glossary of Words Supposed to Be Peculiar to the United States and the Dominion of Canada.
Clapin, Sylva.
Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1968.
Octavo. Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Some scuffing to covers including small black mark on back cover. 581 pages. Reprint of 1902 edition.
Price: $20.00
Linguistics : A Guide to the Reference Literature. Second Edition.
DeMiller, Anna L.
Englewood: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.
Very good octavo hardcover without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and some light scuffing to covers. Tag taped to spine. 396 pages with 3 indices.
Price: $25.00
Boolean Semantics for Natural Languages. Synthese Language Library, Volume 23.
Keenan, Edward L., and Leonard M. Faltz.
Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in glossy binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and on upper corners of panels. Light scuffing and minor scratching to covers. Small tear on fore-edge of rear free endpaper. 387 pages with figures, bibliography, and index. Scarce.
Price: $95.00
Philosophical Skepticism and Ordinary-Language Analysis.
Vander Veer, Garrett L.
Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1978.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges and some scuffing to covers. 277 pages with endnotes and index.
Price: $15.00
Rhetoric and the Pursuit of Truth : Language Change in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar 8 March 1980.
Vickers, Brian and Nancy Struever.
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985.
Thin octavo. SIGNED in black in by Nancy Streuver. Some wear to edges and corners of cover, more so at heel of spine. A few pages have light creases to corner tips. Former owner wrote notes in blue felt tip at tned of book at last page, with small marks and short underlining in blue on a number of pages, not affecting legibility. 121 p. w/notes.
Price: $25.00
