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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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Productivite Morphologique Et Emprunt: Etude des Derives deverbaux Savants en Francais Moderne
by Zwaneburg, Wiecher
Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 1983. French text. Hardcover. 199 pp. Near Fine copy, no dust jacket. Minor sunning to the binding; clean contents.
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SGD 33.09
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
by Noelle Gallagher
Yale University Press, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. Explores the history of metaphors used for venereal disease and how it reflected the cultural anxieties about gender, race, and sex during the 18th century. New tightly bound hardcover in like DJ. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underling. Includes b&w illustrations, source notes and an index. xii, 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in...
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SGD 27.51
Primer of Attic Greek
by Mayor, H.B
London: Macmillan, 1967. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good+. Reprint of second edition! Blue cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has faint toning to spine, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked.
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SGD 27.57
The Grammar of Space
by Svorou, Soteria
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994. Hardcover. Near fine. Gilt stamped brown cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has hint of shelfwear to boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked with faint foxing to top edge of block.
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SGD 193.02
imperatives and Commands (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)
by Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y
Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pr, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 2010, First Edition. Hardcover. 500 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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SGD 77.21
The Philosophy of Language
by Katz, Jerrold J
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. Good. octavo, black cloth boards, no DJ, book is in good condition with green ink notes to the intro and first chapter, stray notes thereafter, 326pp.
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SGD 20.68
![Engan Language Speaking Manual [New Guinea]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/794/408/1133408794.0.b.0.jpg)
Engan Language Speaking Manual [New Guinea]
by Larson, James E
np: New Guinea Lutheran Mission - Missouri Synod, 1967. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 1967. Softcover, plain orange wraps; bound with a single metal band. Title page says volume 1, pages 1-98, but this book includes both volumes, a total of 159 pages, plus 58 additional unnumbered lesson pages in the rear. Printed on rectos only. Very Good. Soil and handling to wraps and title page; text unmarked. Prepared by James E. Larson, a Lutheran missionary, as a linguistic guide to the Engan language...
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SGD 241.27
Words Apart: The Language of Prejudice
by Green, Jonathon
London: Kyle Cathie Limited, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
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SGD 27.57
![Etnografiya Kavkaza, Yazykoznaniye, Vol. VII, Tabasaranskiy Yazyk [Ethnography of the Caucasus, Linguistics, Vol. VII: The Tabasaran Language]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/584/764/1462764584.0.b.jpg)
Etnografiya Kavkaza, Yazykoznaniye, Vol. VII, Tabasaranskiy Yazyk [Ethnography of the Caucasus, Linguistics, Vol. VII: The Tabasaran Language]
by Uslar, P. K
Tbilisi: Metsiyereba, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto, 10.25 x 6.75 inchers, yellow boards stamped in red, very good, light wear and soil, pages a tad wavy, a couple minor instances of underlining. 1069 (1) pp. Tabasaran is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Lezgic branch. It is spoken by the Tabasaran people in the southern part of the Russian Republic of Dagestan. There are two main dialects: North (Khanag) and South Tabasaran. It has a literary language based on the Southern dialect, one...
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SGD 117.19
Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the 20th Century
by Ostler, Rosemarie
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition, 2003. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 239 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, a bit of age-toning to the covers, minor creasing to the tips of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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SGD 27.30
Anthology of Linguistic Studies of the Balkan Peninsula (in Russian)
by Zalisnyak, A. A., et al., eds
Moscow: NAUKA, 1976. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, publisher's green cloth gilt, very good, owner's namestamp on flyleaf. Collection of studies of Balkan languages. 322 (2) pp. Text in Russian.
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SGD 27.57
On Expressive Language: Papers Presented at the Clark University Conference on Expressive Language Behavior
by Werner, Heinz; Editor
Worcester, MA: Clark University Press, 1955. First printing. Paperback. Very Good+. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has faint toning and foxing to wraps, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
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SGD 137.87
Signification and Significance: A Study of the Relations of Signs and Values
by Morris, Charles
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Presumed first edition, 1964, hardcover with black and gilt stamped gray cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 99pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild edgewear to boards and spine ends, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with toning, edgewear that includes a couple small closed tears, now in archival mylar wrap.
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SGD 75.83
The Story of Writing
by Robinson, Andrew
Thames & Hudson, 1999. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 9.17
Die Lautveranderung Aztekischer Worter in den Sonorischen Sprachen und die Sonorische Endung AME
by Buschmann, Johann Karl Edward, 1805-1880
Berlin: Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Hardcover. Good. [433]-557p. Boards. 29cm. Hinges reinforced with paper tape. Ex lib. Mostly unopened. Reprinted from Abhandlungen der Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1856. German text.
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SGD 82.72
The World's Major Languages
by Comrie, Bernard
NY: Oxford University Press, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 1014pp+ index. Remainder mark to bottom, wraps lightly edgeworn, else very good and Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining, highlighting or notes.
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SGD 20.68
Vedic History (Set in Chronology); India Without Misrepresentation, Book I.
by Pillai, Govinda Krishna
Allahabad: Kitabistan, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition, 1959. Hardcover in dust jacket, 156 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, stamp and a very small ink-notation on the front flyleaf, a bit of age-toning or discoloration to some pages and page-edges, some soiling or discoloration to the dust jacket, rubbing and wear to the tips and edges of the dust jacket including some tearing or loss at the tips. Dust jacket housed in dust jacket...
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SGD 43.94
An Introduction to Old Irish - Clothbound edition
by Lehmann, R. P. M. & W. P
New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Cloth hardcover, very good or better, possibly not issued in dust jacket. 201 pp. Uncommon in the hardcover edition.
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SGD 48.25
Zur Geographie des Mittelenglischen Wortschatzes; Palaestra 205
by Kaiser, Rolf
Leipzig: Mayer & Muller, 1937. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps, clean unmarked text, very good copy, ink-inscription on the first page, some discoloration and wear to the covers. Text in German. Uncommon.
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SGD 137.87
An Analysis of the Derivative Words in the English Language; Or, A Key to their Precise Analytic Definitions, By Prefixes and Suffixes: Designed to Furnish an Easy and Expeditious Method of Acquiring a Knowledge of Derivative Words, from a Knowledge of their Component Parts
by Town, Salem
New York: J. Orville Taylor, 1838. Ninth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Ninth edition, 1838, hardcover with brown cloth boards, octavo, 164pp., not illustrated. Book VG with mild wear to spine ends and corners, title band on spine toned, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, some faint pencil writing to endpapers and margins. No DJ.
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SGD 35.85
Mkhas-pahi-dgah-ston, parts 1-3 (Indo-Asian Literatures Volume 9, Parts 1-3)
by Ohandra, Lokesh; Richardson, H. E. (intro.)
New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Volume 1-3 only. 1961. Hardcover, green covers. Reproduced with the original Tibetan script. Near Fine. Clean contents. Volumes 1-3 only, lacking the 4th volume which includes all of the loose plates.
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SGD 165.44
A Short Introduction to Grammar, generally to be used: compiled and set forth for the bringing up of all those, that intend to attain to the knowledge of the Latin tongue
by Lily, William
London: S. Buckley & T. Longman, 1745. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo, 6 x 3.75 inches, old very dark brown leather, fair copy with dark brown paper over the spine, loss, abrasions and dryness to boards, recent flyleaves, possibly lacking some of the text; (10) 62 pp, ending with "finis," but not conforming in pagination to any of the 1745 editions in Worldcat, which are all substantially longer. Is this an unrecorded condensed or abridged edition? We can't figure it out! First published in 1534 in Latin....
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SGD 89.62
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Pinker, Steven
Paperback. Like New.
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SGD 6.86
The Logical Syntax of Language
by Carnap, Rudolf: C.K. Ogden
London: Routledge, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. octavo, green boards in dust jacket, jacket is in good condition with staining, sunning, chipping and edgewear, book is in very good condition with ink stamps to the front pastedown and flyleaf, small stains to the text block, 352pp.
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SGD 41.36
The Book of Nonexistent Words
by Stefano Massini
HarperVia Publishing, 2021. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2021 HarperVia Books imprint of HarperCollins Publishing softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. How many times have words not been enough? How many complex feelings don't have a corresponding noun that properly describes them? How many times has language left us like an archer without arrows in the...
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SGD 20.61
