Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Harpercollins, February 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
Linguistics
National Proverbs in the Principal Languages of Europe. Cover title: National Proverbs in Five Languages
John W. Parker, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. 176 pages. Proverbs in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in stamped green cloth covers with bright gilt decorations and lettering on front cover and spine. Spine is tanned. No dust jacket.
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Folio Society, 2014. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 199 pages. Text of this edition follows that of the paperback edition by Penguin Books in 1999, with minor emendations. First Folio Society edition (first printing). A fine copy; no dust jacket. In publisher's origingal slipcase.
Proto-Takanan Phonology (University of California Publications in Linguistics, 70)
University of California Press, 1971. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 209 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in yellow wrappers (paperback).Slight cover wear. Crease in front cover lower front edge.
Teisdal' en how twas spok'n
Privately Printed by Lintons Printers, Co. Durham, 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 191 pages. B/W photographs. Book on Teesdale dialect. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).
North East Dialect: The Texts; with, North East Dialect: Survey & Word List (2 volumes)
Centre of Northern Studies School of Humanites University of Northumbria, 2002. Trade Paperback. Text, 144 pages; Survey, 145 pages. Second editions, revised, updated. Fine copies in wrappers (paperback).
Tha Caps Me Nah! / Nay Fer Sewer (John Hartley's Yorkshire Tales, No. 7), and The Mystery of Burts' Babby (John Hartley's Yorkshire Tales, No. 14) (2 items)
W. Nicholson & Sons (No. 7) and Watmoughs Limited (No. 14), n.d., ca. 1900-1910. Trade Paperback. No. 7, 16 pages. No. 14, 16 pages. First editions (first printings), presumed. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Tanning and some wear to covers. Some rusting to staples on No. 14.
Ann Waddleton's Visit ti Scarborough and Hoo Juries finnd the'r vardict (Yorkshire Dialect Readings No. 3, second edition)
Yorkshire Publishing Press, n.d., ca. 1921. Trade Paperback. pp. 40-54. First edition (first printing). Very good in illustrated pink wrappers (paperback). Wear to covers with rust at staples. Scarce.
A Hand-Book of Luganda with Elementary Luganda Exercises
S.P.C.K., 1937. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Hand-Book: 95 pages; Elementary Exercises: 44 pages. Folding 'Table of Contents' opposite the title page. Hand-Book originally published in 1901. First edition thus. A very good copy in brown cloth covers with title in black on fron tcover. Edge and corner wear. Staining to.....
A Grammar of the Burmese Language
The A. B. M. Press (American Baptist Mission), 1945. Hardcover. 66 pages. Revised edition, originally published in 1883. Revised edition. A very good copy in white paper over boards and blue cloth covers with title on front cover. Mild soiling and edge wear. Title page with 2' closed tear. No.....
The Irish of Ring, Co Waterford: A Phonetic Study
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. 175 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue paper over boards and black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Sheet of 'further additions and corrections' enclosed. Covers mildly soiled, upper corners bumped. Edge wear. No dust.....
Pidgin and Creole Languages: Selected Essays
Cambridge University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 157 pages. Schuchardt is credited with founding the field of creole studies. Book is the first English translation of a selection of his most important essays. First edition in English (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket.....
Extinct Languages
Dorset Press, June 1995. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Stories, Sketches and Rhymes in the Rochdale Dialect. Volume I
James Clegg, 'The Aldine Press', 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. 488 pages. Rochdale is a large town in the Greater Manchester area of England. First edition (first printing). Volume I (one * on spine). A very good copy in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Mile edge and corner wear.....
Kota Texts: Part One, Three, Four (3 monographs)
University of California Publications in Linguistics, 1944 and 1946. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Linguistics: Volume 2, No. 1, pp. viii, 1-192; Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-190; Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. iv, 191-374. The Kotas are people of South India in the Nilgiri Hills.....
Dravidian Borrowings from Indo-Aryan
University of California Press, 1962. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 26. pp. x, 121. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in gray printed wrappers (paperback).
Brahui and Dravidian Comparative Grammar
University of California Press, 1962. First Edition. Trade Paperback. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 27. pp. xi, 90. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in gray printed wrappers (paperback).
Language Learnability and Language Development
Harvard University Press, (1984). First Edition. Trade Paperback. 435 pages. Pinker's first book; lays out his theory of computational language acquisition. The seventh book in Harvard's Cognitive Science Series. Published simultaneously in hardcover. First edition (first printing). A near fine, gently read copy in wrappers (paperback). From the Harvard office.....
The History of Inflectional N in English Verbs Before 1500
University of California Press, 1950. First Edition. Trade Paperback. x, paginaged from 157 to 328, as issued. Map. University of California Publications in English, vol. 7, no. 4. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author on the cover, 'To Bud, with best.....
The Mechanism of Speech: Lectures delivered before the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf (Fifth edition)
Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1911. Hardcover. 133 pages. Includes index not present in the first edition. Illustrated with black-and-white charts and diagrams. Fifth edition. Near fine hardcover copy in brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine; no dust jacket. Light bumps and wear to corners.
Studies on the Accentuation of Polysyllabic Latin, Greek, and Romance Loan Words in English, with Special Reference to those ending in -able, -ate, -ator, -ible, -ic, -ical, and -ize.
Almqvist & Wiksell, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 644 plus 6 pages of errata and corrigenda. First edition (first printing). One page with a repaired margin tear. Neatly bound in gold cloth, lacking the original wrappers.
A First Language: The Early Stages
Harvard University Press, January 1973. Hardcover. For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children-the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, studying both semantic.....
Persian and Arabic Riddles: A language-centered approach to genre definition
Indiana University Press, 1965. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 135 pages; reproduced from typescript. A linguistic analysis of the structure of Persian riddles. Persian text written phonetically in the Roman alphabet. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
A Man About A Dog: Euphemisms And Other Examples of Verbal Squeamishness
HarperCollins UK, May 2008. Trade Paperback. Suitable for those captivated by language and our ability to abuse it, this title, by one of Britain's foremost commentators on English, collects and explains examples of verbal perfume.
The Phonology of a Berwickshire Dialect
Schuler, 1942. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 99 pages. Thesis presented to the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).