Harmony, August 2014. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. "A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages."--Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar.....
Dorset Press, June 1995. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
University of Nebraska Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. 445 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of central west Greenland. In this.....
Academic Press Inc, October 1976. Hardcover.
The MIT Press, February 2000. Hardcover. A neuroscientist and a linguist show how evolution could have given rise to structured language. A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky.....
D. Appleton and Company, 1897. Hardcover. 236 pages. A very good hardcover copy half bound in leather; no dust jacket.
Mouton, 1972. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 380 pages. The paperback edition precedes the hardcover edition (as is noted in the letter accopanying the monograph). Signed by the author on front free endpaper. First edition (first printing). Very good in purple wrappers (paperback). Front cover has scuffs and lower front corner.....
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.....
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.....
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1948. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 42 pages. Reprint from the Supplement to the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Number 8, July-September, 1948. The Tocharian languages are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by inhabitants of the Tarim Basin. First.....
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).
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).
University of Chicago Press, 1980. Trade Paperback. 242 pages. The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical.....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.
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.....
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).
Gedruckt bey N. Gretsch, 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. 70 pages. The first or one of the first books by this noted early 19th century Finnish linguist, published while he was teaching in St. Petersburg soon after earning his doctorate. A wide-ranging essay on Finnish literature and language, with words printed.....
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.
N/A, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed, affordably priced, compact paperbacks bring ideas to life and amplify.....
Dorset Press, January 1988. Hardcover.
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).
University of California Press, September 1977. Trade Paperback.