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New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Softcover. Very Good+. 177pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of the motivations underlying codeswitching (the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation).

London, UK: Croom Helm, 1981. First British Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 337pp; DJ price-clipped, clean & bright, sticker remnant to front board, rubber stamp (Chinese) to title page & top edge, pages age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG-/VG condition. Collection of linguistics papers resulting from work in trace theory, including Chomsky's proposals to permit the… Read more about this item

New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. Softcover. Near Fine. 342pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Papers presented at the conference entitled, "Communicating with the Indians: aspects of the language encounter with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, 1492-1800," held in October, 1996 in Providence, RI. European Expansion & Global Interaction Series, Volume 1. Illustrated.

South San Francisco, CA: Long River Press, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 325pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine condition. Features over 300 full color illustrations, each depicting the origins of a particular Chinese character.

Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1985. Softcover. Very Good-. 395pp; Covers clean & bright, minor staining to edges, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Dictionary of the Waskia language of Papua New Guinea. Includes Waskia/Tok Pisin/English; Tok Pisin/Waskia; English/Waskia.

Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 149pp; Minor staining to DJ, previous owner's name to FFEP, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good+ condition. Scarce vintage monograph on Manx phonology. University of Edinburgh Linguistic Survey of Scotland Monographs No. 2.

University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth in DJ; 154pp; Minor chipping & slight staining to DJ, DJ protected by mylar sleeve, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/Good condition. Story of three types of words added to American Southern vocabulary: Nahuatl, Muskogee and African.

London: Oxford University Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth in DJ; 419pp; Very small discoloration to front panel of DJ, else clean, tight copy, Near Fine/VG+ condition. Study of a grammar of Old Provencal composed in Italy c. 1240, which is the earliest surviving attempt to compose a full grammar of a Romance vernacular within… Read more about this item

London: Longman, 1991. Softcover. Very Good. 278pp; Clean, tight copy, VG condition. Second volume in series on multilingualism in the British Isles.

American Dialect Soceity, 2005. Hardcover. Fine. Cloth; 133pp; Clean, tight copy, Fine condition. Report on a sociolinguistic study of dialect change in Griffin, Georgia, a textile mill town 40 miles south of Atlanta. Publication No. 90 of the American Dialect Society. Annual Supplement to American Speech. Illustrated with charts & maps.

Thessaloniki, Greece: Kenneth A. Oliver, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good+. 138pp; Brown cloth boards, decorated endpapers, clean, tight copy, VG+ condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Introduction to language and linguistics. Partial Contents: The Origins and Functions of Language; The Indo-European Language Family; The Separation and Early Development of English; How a Language Grows; The Greeks Had a Word… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Cloth in DJ; 135pp; Top corner torn off DJ front panel, DJ protected by mylar cover, pages clean & tight, VG/Fair condition. Discusses the lore of word derivations.

Waukesha, WI: Maledicta Press, 1990. Softcover. Very Good+. 320pp; Clean, tight copy, VG+ condition. Volume 10 of unique journal focusing on "verbal aggression," i.e. cursing, in various languages. This volume: medical maledicta from San Francisco; telephonic cryptograms; phone-smut; pejorative nick-names for baseball all-stars; Egyptian Arabic abuse; Challenger Shuttle jokes; much more.

St. Louis, MO: The Loglan Institute, Inc., 1980. Softcover. Good. Wraps; 80pp; Covers & several pages stained (doesn't affect text), Good condition. Journal of Loglan, an artificial logical language invented in the late 1950s by James Cooke Brown.