BIDDULPH, Joseph

Some Forgotten Languages of Europe: Published by Joseph Biddulph 'Languages Information Centre'.

Pontypridd, Wales, Joseph Biddulph, 1996. Card covers, 40 pp. In very good condition. Seems unused. We have other works for sale in this splendid series.

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N° du livre: 38358

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Grammar|Linguistics |Featured

BROWN, Keith, OGLIVIE, Sarah.

Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World:

Amsterdam etc. Elsevier, 2009. Quarto, xxxvi+1283pp. Heavy item. As new. In very good condition, clean and bright. Full descriptions of the phonology, semantics, morphology, and syntax of the world's major languages, giving insights into their structure, history and development, sounds, meaning, structure, and language family, thereby both highlighting their diversity for comparative study, and contextualising them according to their genetic relationships and regional distribution.

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N° du livre: 38301

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Reference|Linguistics |Featured

BUSHELL, H. S. (prepared by) [Mortimer Wheeler]

The Transliteration of Russian, Serbian and Bulgarian for Bibliographic Purposes. Preface by Cyril Hinshelwood and Mortimer Wheeler.

London, Royal Society, 1953. Printed stapled wrappers, off-set litho, 12 pp. III tables. Very good with a few damp marks to covers. Clean and tight.

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N° du livre: 37365

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Slavs|Slavonic|East European|Russia|Featured

Campbell, George L

Compendium of the World's Languages: Volume II. Masai to Zuni.

London and New York, Routledge. 1991. Volume II only. Large 8vo. pp829-1574. In original unclipped dust-wrapper. Heavy item 1.5Kg. An excellent copy, as new and unused. Clean, bright and tight. Descriptions of over three hundred languages encompassing both Modern and 'Dead' languages, isolates and pidgins.

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N° du livre: 38168

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Featured|Multi-Lingual|Reference|Linguistics

CAMPBELL, George L.

Compendium of the World's Languages 2 Vols: Volume I Abaza to Lusatian. Volume II Masai to Zuni.

London and New York, Routledge. 1991. 2 hardback volumes, large 8vo. xxiv-1574pp. In original unclipped dust-wrappers. Heavy set. May incur extra postal charges. A very good set, barely unused. Clean, bright and tight. Dust-wrapper spines just a tad sunned. Descriptions of over three hundred languages encompassing both Modern and 'Dead' languages, isolates and pidgins.

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N° du livre: 38432

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Featured|Multi-Lingual|Reference|Linguistics

CAMPBELL, Lyle

Historical Linguistics. An Introduction

Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1998. Paperback, 288pp. Used; Like New "The absolutely best textbook in historical linguistics". Practical and hands-on with numerous student exercises, featuring a wide-range of languages and examples. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 27540

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Linguistics|Historical Linguistics|Indo-European

CHOMSKY, Noam.

Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar. Janua Linguarum Series Minor 56.

The Hague, Mouton, 1975. A very nice copy in usual printed light blue card wrappers. 95pp. Crisp, clean and tight, yellowing at wrapper edges. Used; Very Good . Paperback.

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N° du livre: 34819

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Language Reference|Chomsky|Transformational Generative Grammar|Linguistics|Featured

CLACKSON, James

Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011. Large p/b. xxii+260pp. As new and unused. Reprint of 2007 first edition.

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N° du livre: 38305

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Indo-European|Linguistics|Language|Reference|Featured

CLYNE, Michael G..

Transference and Triggering. Observations on the Language Assimilation of Postwar German-Speaking Migrants in Australia. With a Foreword by Hugo Moser.

The Hague, Martinus Nijoff, 1967. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. xix+148pp Used; Very Good Triggering as a phenomenon in some examples of bilingual speech was first noticed and explored by Michael Clyne in the first of his many books, Transference and Triggering (1967), and has been subsequently problematised by many researchers in the field of language contact. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 34515

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Linguistics|Contact|German|Minority Languages|Australia|Bilingual|Featured

COMRIE, Bernard

The Languages of the Soviet Union: Cambridge Language Surveys.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981. 8vo. p/b. xvii[v]317pp. double page map, many tables. In good condition, with some age browning to paper very light wear to covers. A general account of the languages spoken in the area covered by the former Soviet Union - one of the most diverse multinational and multilingual areas in the world. Arranged by language family: Altaic, Uralic, Indo-European, Caucasian, Paleosiberian, Eskimo-Aleut and others. With maps and other appendices.

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N° du livre: 38374

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Soviet Union|Reference|Slavonic|Uralic|Altaic|Featured|Paleosiberian |Finno-Ugric|Linguistics |Sovietica

Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena

Multilinguals Are... ?

London, Battlebridge Publications, 2010. Paperback, 96pp. As new. New Author's presentation copy. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 29987

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Multilingual|Bi-Lingual|Language Acquisition|Second Language Acquisition|Linguistics|Featured

CRYSTAL, David & DAVY, Derek

Investigating English Style English Language Series.

London, Longman, 1973. P/b. xii+264pp. Light wear to covers and slight signs of use but a good, clean, tight copy. Used; Good Stylistic analysis of spoken and written texts. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 31763

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: English|Language|Style|Featured|Book-Cover Design|Literature|Linguistics

Cunningsworth, Alan and Philippa Ferst.

Word Power. Strategies for Acquiring English Vocabulary. With Answer Key.

London, Macmillan, 1992. Large format paperback, 19x24.5cm. 124pp. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Very light unobtrusive wear. Text clean. Used; Very Good Approaching the development of vocabulary handling skills by giving practice in deducing meaning, using contextual and linguistic clues, and perceiving relationships between words, this book stresses relationships between words - formal, semantic and collocational.. and involves individual, group and whole-class activities. Alan Cunningsworth is the also the author of "Evaluating and Selecting EFL Teaching Materials". Paperback.

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N° du livre: 35799

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: English|Language Teaching|Featured|Tesol|English As a Foreign Language

DALBY, Andrew.

A Guide to World Language Dictionaries.

London, Library Asscociation, 1998. viii+470pp. A very nice bright copy in original dust-wrapper. As new and unused. Used; Very Good Highly recommended bibliography. The most up-to-date and well annotated bibliography of dictionaries to some 276 of the world's languages. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 26971

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: English|Language|Reference|Dictionary|Bibliography|Featured

DANIELS, Peter T. & Bright, William

The World's Writing Systems.

New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996. 8vo. hardback in dust-wrapper. xlv+922pp. Heavy item. In very good condition, clean and tight. Fore-edge just a little marked. "The only comprehensive resource covering every major writing system".

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N° du livre: 38394

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Alphabets|Writing|Paleography|Epigraphy|Scripts|Ancient World|Writing Systems|Daniels|Bright|Featured|Alphabets and Scripts