Berne, Stanley

Future Language

NY: Horizon Press, 1976. 1976. NY: Horizon Press, 1976. 1976. Very good. - Octavo, tan & white pictorial wraps. [ix] & 150 pp. & 2-page publisher's catalogue. The bottom corners of the book are lightly creased. Very good.

First edition.

Berne's study addresses sentence structure, grammar and usage with suggestions as to how language may be reformed to make it "more beautiful, more pleasurable, better understood, workable, teachable, simple, more free, and universally applicable to all modern languages.." [from the dw copy].

Scarce. Very good .

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Book number: 2165

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LITERATURE; LANGUAGE; GRAMMAR; SENTENCE STRUCTURE; USAGE; LINGUISTICS; STANLEY BERNE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Bugge, Aage

Gronlandsk Rejseparlor

Kjobenhavn [Denmark]: NYT Nordisk Forlag - Arnold Busck, 1952. 1952. Kjobenhavn [Denmark]: NYT Nordisk Forlag - Arnold Busck, 1952. 1952. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed wrappers with a map of Greenland on the rear wrap. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped & slightly chipped with the spine & extremities darkened. 131 & [1] pages. Illustrated with a few black-and-white vignettes by Ida Lynge. The edges of the inside wraps are darkened. Good.

A Greenlandic phrase book. Phrases are given in Danish with their Greenlandic equivalents. Good .

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Book number: 30948

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; GREENLANDIC; DANISH-GREENLANDIC PHRASE BOOK; AAGE BUGGE; VIGNETTES; ILLUSTRATOR; IDA LYNGE.

Carnoy, Albert J

Adjectival Nouns in Vulgar Latin and Early Romance

The Romanic Review, 1917. 1917. The Romanic Review, 1917. 1917. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The wraps are bumped & darkened with their edges creased & chipped. The spine is darkened & chipped with a tear to the head. Title & pages 165-195. The bottom page corners are creased with staining to the bottom corners of pp. 171/172, The top page corners are bumped & there is some light creasing to the margins. Good.

Reprinted from The Romanic Review, Vol. VIII, No. 2, April-June 1917.

Inscribed by the author to archaeologist Clark Hopkins on the title page and signed "A. C.". Albert J. Carnoy was Professor of Linguistics and of Iranian Philology, University of Louvain, and Research Professor, University of Pennsylvania.

Scarce. Good .

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Book number: 15985

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; PHILOLOGY; ADJECTIVAL NOUNS IN VULGAR LATIN AND EARLY ROMANCE; ALBERT J. CARNOY; COMPOUND WORDS; VOCABULARY; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; CLARK HOPKINS; THE ROMANIC REVIEW.

(University of Chicago)

Handbook of Indian Civilization

Chicago, IL: Syllabus Division, The University of Chicago Press, n.d. [early 1960s]. n.d. [early 1960s]. Chicago, IL: Syllabus Division, The University of Chicago Press, n.d. [early 1960s]. n.d. [early 1960s]. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed vermilion wraps. There is some fading to the edges of the wraps & there is an owner's stamp & ink notation on the top edge of the front wrap. There is a tiny tear to the top edge of the rear wrap. iii & 47 pages. There is an ink notation on page 15 & a small area of light soiling to page 45. Very good.

A volume in the series "Introduction to The Civilization of India" prepared for the use of University of Chicago students. The contents of this handbook include transliteration and pronunciation in Sanskrit and Hindi, a glossary and a four-page chronology of Indian civilization. Very good .

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Book number: 15338

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE; ASIA; INDIA; SANSKRIT; HINDI; TRANSLITERATION; PRONUNCIATION; GLOSSARY; CHRONOLOGY; HANDBOOK OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION.

Compton, Alfred Donaldson.

First Aid in English.

New York: The City College Store, 1940. 1940. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in light gray stapled wraps, titled in black on the front cover. The edges of the covers are soiled and darkened with minor creases and with a short tear to the top edge of the front cover. A previous owner's name is faintly penned in red at the top of the front cover with the date & location of the final exam penned in blue at the bottom. [ii] & 81 pages plus a 2 page index. The previous owner's name is penned in red on the title page with his notes as to final exams penned in blue on the rear blank. Good. "Revised Edition". RARE. "This pamphlet is intended as a guide to some matters with which students in New York have trouble, not as a systematic grammar or rhetoric, nor as a guide suitable for all parts of the country. It is not intended that the book should be used as a textbook, but rather as a guide to which students found deficient in any matter may be referred, and a summary that students should study by themselves."- from the preface. The book includes a list of "symbols used in correcting themes" printed on the verso of the front cover as well as an index to the "correction chart". Good .

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Book number: 97264

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE; ENGLISH; ALFRED DONALDSON COMPTON; THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK; FIRST AID IN ENGLISH; SYMBOLS USED IN CORRECTING THEMES; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY.

Dzidziguri, Shota

The Georgian Language. (Short Review)

Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, 1969. 1969. Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, 1969. 1969. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in decorative wrappers. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped with chipping & creasing to the spine. 87 & [2] pages plus colophon. Black-and-white illustrations. Good. Good .

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Book number: 30589

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; GEORGIA; THE GEORGIAN LANGUAGE; SHORA DZIDZIGURI; ORIGIN OF GEORGIAN PEOPLE; ORIGIN OF GEORGIAN LANGUAGE; GEORGIAN ALPHABET; GEORGIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE; WORKS ON GEORGIAN GRAMMAR; DICTIONARIES; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Jakobson, Roman; Santilli, Kathy.

Brain and Language. Cerebral Hemispheres and Linguistic Structure in Mutual Light.

Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, Inc. 1980. 1980. - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled printed wrappers. The edges of the covers are slightly darkened and there is a tiny ink line on the front cover. 48 pages. The top corners of several pages are lightly bumped. Very good.

First edition, with a printed presentation slip laid in.

"Roman Jakobson's lecture 'Brain and Language' given at New York University, May 6, 1980, is, as its title indicates, of primary interest to students of the medical sciences, linguistics, and neurolinguistics, but it also penetrates the areas of fundamental problems in poetics, general literary studies, and semiotics." - from the editor's note.

Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) was a Russian-born American linguist. He was one of the most important linguists of the twentieth century, influencing the likes of Noam Chomsky and Claude Levi-Strauss. He had a particular interest in the study of aphasia. Very good .

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Book number: 98121

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: ROMAN JAKOBSON; KATHY SANTILLI; BRAIN AND LANGUAGE; CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES AND LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE IN MUTUAL LIGHT; LINGUISTICS; RUSSIAN LINGUIST; APHASIA; MEDICINE; NEUROLINGUISTICS; SEMIOTICS; LITERATURE; SPEECH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY;

Lieberman, Philip

Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution

New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1998),, (1998). New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, (1998). (1998). Fine. INSCRIBED TO PETER MATTHIESSEN AND SIGNED BY PHILIP LIEBERMAN - Octavo, cloth-backed boards in a dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is lightly rubbed. xvi & 192 pages. Black-and-white illustrations & diagrams. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition.

Inscribed on the front endpaper to Peter Matthiessen: ""A different view of our humanness - / Phil Lieberman". Fine .

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Book number: 27452

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; ANTHROPOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; HUMAN SPEECH; EVE SPOKE: HUMAN LANGUAGE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION; PHILIP LIEBERMAN; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; PETER MATTHIESSEN; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Pike, Kenneth L. (1912-2000)

Language As Particle, Wave, and Field

The Texas Quarterly, 1959. 1959. The Texas Quarterly, 1959. 1959. Very good. - Octavo, softcover. Printed self-wraps. The outer leaves are darkened around the edges & lightly bumped & soiled with a tiny chip out of the bottom edge of the first leaf. 54 pages.

First separate edition. Reprinted from the Texas Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 2, Summer 1959.

Kenneth Pike was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics, which he developed to help with the analysis of languages from Central and South America by identifying, using both semantic and syntactic elements, strings of linguistic elements capable of playing a number of different roles. He believed that the structure of language should be studied in context, not just by looking at single sentences. He also coined the terms "emic" as in "phonemics" [referring to the subjective understanding and account of meaning in the sounds of lanaguages] and "etic" as in "phonetics" [referring to the objective study of those sounds].

Rare. Very good .

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Book number: 15964

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; LINGUIST; ANTHROPOLOGIST; AMERICAN; KENNETH L. PIKE; LANGUAGE AS PARTICLE, WAVE, AND FIELD; PHONEMICS; PHONETICS; TAGMEMICS.

Schick, Phiippine.

Deutsch-Englische Ubersetzungsubungen. 3 Volumes. Volumes I and II: (Mit Stilistisch-Syntaktischem Kommentar). Volume III: (Mit Sprachlich Erklarendem Kommentar).

Munchen: Max Hueber Verlag, 1959/1962. 1959/1962. - Octavo, printed orange wrappers. The spines are sunned. 125 pages; 118 & [2] pages; and 159 & [1] pages. There is a crease to the last page of Volume 1. Very good

Volume I is the second, revised edition. Volumes II and III are first editions.

This is a three-volume set of German-English translation exercises. German texts are accompanied by English translations. Very good .

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Book number: 35585

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGES; TRANSLATION; DEUTSCH-ENGLISCHE UBERSETZUNGSUBUNGEN; GERMAN-ENGLISH TRANSLATION EXERCISES; PHILIPPINE SCHICK.

Seward, Jack

Japanese in Action: An Unorthodox Approach to the Spoken Language and the People Who Speak It

New York & Tokyo: Walker Weathehill, (1970). (1970). New York & Tokyo: Walker Weathehill, (1970). (1970). Very good. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. viii, [1] leaf & 213 pages plus colophon. Near fine.

Third printing. Very good .

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Book number: 30784

Catalogue: Linguistics

Keywords: LINGUISTICS; JAPANESE LANGUAGE; JAPANESE IN ACTION: An Unorthodox Approach to the Spoken Language and the People Who Speak It; JACK SEWARD; JAPANESE CULTURE; SPEECH; PRONUNCIATION; SLANG; CURRENT IDIOMS; CIVILITIES; POLITE SPEECH; IMPOLITE SPEECH.