Lieberman, Philip

Eve Spoke Human Language and Human Evolution

London, Picador, 1998. As new hardback in dust-wrapper. 208 pp. New On the evolution of language. It follows the first "modern" humans who developed language and so produced the ability to express complex and abstract thought. The book argues that the modifications made to the brain to enable the development of language are the same as the Darwinian mechanisms that produced distinctive attributes in other animals. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 25764

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Language|Linguistics|Featured

LOCKWOOD, W.B.

A Panorama of Indo-European Languages:

London, Hutchinson, 1972. 8vo. hardback in green clothand original printed dust-wrapper. A very nice, bright copy, clean and tight. Dust-wrapper excellent. A little unoffensive tape off-setting to endpapers. owner name neatly inside. The Concept of Indo-European, Hellenic, Italic, Osco-Umbrian, Venetic, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Slavonic, Thraco-Phrygian, Illyrian, Aryan, Tocharian, Anatolian. With index of languages and dialects. A very accessible and still popular work.

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N° du livre: 38340

Catalogue: Linguistics

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

MALLORY, J.P., ADAMS, D. Q..

The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World : Oxford Linguistics.

2006. Large p/b. xxiv+731pp. With many maps, figures and tables. Almost as new. Seems unused. Clean and tight. This book introduces Proto-Indo-European, describes how it was reconstructed from its descendant languages, and shows what it reveals about the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using related evidence from archaeology and natural history the authors explore the lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy, history, and environment of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. They include chapters on fauna, flora, family and kinship, clothing and textiles, food and drink, space and time, emotions, mythology, and religion, and describe the quest to discover the Proto-Indo-European homeland.

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N° du livre: 38444

Catalogue: Linguistics

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

MARCHAND, Frank (ed.)

L'Acquisition Du Langage Manuel de Linguistique Appliquée.

Paris, Delagrave, 1975. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good Destiné aux instituteurs et à ceux qui les forment. L'acquisition du langage des enfants français et des immigrés. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 36204

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Linguistics|French|Featured|Language Acquisition|Language Teaching|Book-Cover Design

MARCHAND, Frank (ed.)

Les Analyses de la Langue Manuel de Linguistique Appliquée.

Paris, Delagrave, 1975. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good Destiné aux instituteurs et à ceux qui les forment. Grammaire, vocabulaire, analyse du discours . Paperback.

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N° du livre: 36206

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Linguistics|French|Featured|Language Acquisition|Language Teaching|Book-Cover Design

MARCHAND, Frank (ed.)

La Norme Linguistique Manuel de Linguistique Appliquée.

Paris, Delagrave, 1975. A very nice bright copy. Clean and tight. Used; Very Good Destiné aux instituteurs et à ceux qui les forment. La norme; le langage dans les mass-media . Paperback.

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N° du livre: 36207

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Linguistics|French|Featured|Language Acquisition|Language Teaching|Book-Cover Design

MARCHAND, Frank (ed.)

La Phonétique Et Ses Applications Manuel de Linguistique Appliquée.

Paris, Delagrave, 1975. Light spotting to front cover but a good, clean, tight copy. Used; Very Good Destiné aux instituteurs et à ceux qui les forment. Phonétique et éducation des sons; la lecture; l'orthographe. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 36205

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Linguistics|French|Featured|Phonetics|Language Teaching|Book-Cover Design

MARTINET, André

Elements of General Linguistics.

London, Faber & Faber, 1969. A very nice bright copy. 228pp. Clean and tight. Light crease to gutter, spine sunned, owner name neatly to f.e.p. Used; Very Good Standard work. First published in 1960 under the title of Élements de Linguistique Générale'. This edition translated by Elizabeth Palmer and with a foreword by L. R. Palmer. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 29795

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Linguistics|Elements of General Linguistics|élements de Linguistique Générale'|Book-Cover Design

McWHORTER, John

The Power of Babel. A Natural History of Languages.

London, William Heinemann, 2002. P/b. 336pp. A very nice bright copy as new. Used; Like New . Paperback.

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N° du livre: 31748

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Language|Linguistics|Language History|Historical Linguistics|Featured

MEILLET, A.. (Buck, G. C.)

Introduction a L'étude Comparative Des Langues Indo-Européenes. Preface by George C. Buck. Alabama Linguistic and Philological Series 3

Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1964. A good tight clean copy in original dust-wrapper. xiv+516pp. Light thumbing and marking of fore-edges and just a tad dusty but generally good condition. Collectable; Very Good An introduction to comparative Indo-European by celebrated French linguist. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 28372

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Language Reference|Linguistics|Comparative Linguistics|Featured|Book-Cover Design

MEILLET, A..

Linguistique Historique Et Linguistique Générale. Collection Linguistique Publiée Par la Société de Linguistique de Paris - VIII.

Paris, Champion, 1965. A very nice bright copy in original printed wrappers. Clean and tight. viii+334pp. Probably unused. Used; Good One of the many writings by this foremost of French linguists. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 34487

Catalogue: Linguistics

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

MEILLET, A..

Linguistique Historique Et Linguistique Générale. Tome II. Nouveau Tirage. Collection Linguistique Publiée Par la Société de Linguistique de Paris - XL.

Paris, Klincksieck, 1952. A very nice bright copy in original printed wrappers. Clean and tight. xiii+234pp. Probably unused. Used; Very Good One of the many writings by this foremost of French linguists. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 34488

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Language Reference|Linguistics|Language|Comparative Linguistics|Featured

Mengham, Rod

Language

London, Fontana Press, 1993. Paperback, very good condition. Used; Like New Challenging and provocative, the author's all encompassing attention ranges over the biological knowledge we have of language, a history of writing systems, the linguistic effects of democracy, the spread of Indo-European, and the role language plays in nationality, family, gender and class and much more. Paperback.

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N° du livre: 25891

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Linguistics|Language|Babel|Grammar|Babble|Featured

Meulen, Alice Ter

Representing Time in Natural Language the Dynamic Interpretation of Tense and Aspect

MIT Press, 1997. A very nice bright copy as new. P/b. 162pp. Used; Like New . Paperback.

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N° du livre: 30781

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Language|Linguistics|Reference|Tense|Aspect|Featured

Meyer, Charles F.

Apposition in Contemporary English. Studies in English Language.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. A very nice bright copy new in dust-wrapper, 166pp. New Derived from the Survey of English Usage Corpus of Written British English. Cover design by Ken Vail. Hardcover.

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N° du livre: 27756

Catalogue: Linguistics

Mots-clés: Apposition|Spoken English Corpus|Linguistic Characteristics|Featured|Book-Cover Design