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This list contains approx 170 titles. They cover all aspects of the study of Language. At the end follows a section on lexicography which also lists some dictionaries
1 Abel-Rémusat, J P: De l'Étude des Langues Étrangéres chez les Chinois. Offpr Paris 1811. 32p dusty, VG £ 12.-2 Actes, XVI Congrés Internacional de Linguistica Filologia Romaniques, Palma De Mallorca 1980. Vol 1: Plenary Sessions, Round Tables. Vol 2: Linguistica Diacronica & Dialectologia. Palma de Mallorca: Moll 1982/1985. 421p 657p 25cm, bound in cloth, unused ex lib, 2 vols (heavy) together only £ 12.-
3 Arnold, E Vernon: Vedic Metre in its Historical Development. CUP 1905. xii 335p 24cm cloth VG ex lib £ 18.-
4 Augarde, Tony: The Oxford Guide to Word Games. OUP 1984. 240p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG+: Riddles, Puns, Crosswords, Scrabble and a chapter on Lewis Carroll £ 15.-
5 Baissac, Jules: De l'origine des Dénominations Ethniques dans la race Aryane. Etude de Philologie Comparées. Paris: Maisonneuve 1867. 104p 23cm wrappers, author inscr, VG £ 14.-
6 Barkley, William: A Last Word. Pitman 1961. 48p hb, dj, author inscription, as new: a pamphlet for simplified spelling of English £ 10.-
7 [Basic Italian] Duff, Charles: The Basis and Essentials of Italian, ... being a first approximation to a Basic Italian. Nelson/Orthological Inst 1946. x 144p cloth, dj, VG+ £ 10.
8 Baynton, Douglas: Forbidden Signs. American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language. Chicago UP 1996. xi 228p 24cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, new £ 16.-
9 Bayfield, M A: Our Traditional Prosody and an Alternative. Offprint 1918. 24p card cover sl worn £ 4.-
10 Beyond the Basics. Issues and Research in TESOL. Ed. Marianne Celce-Murcia. Cambridge: Newbury 1985. 208p 24cm card cover, VG+ £ 12.-
11 Bhavnani, Kum-Kum: Talking Politics. A Psychological Framing for Views from Youth in Britain. CUP 1991. xiv 213p 23cm hb, index, bibliography, stamped, as new. How do young people speak about politics. Based on interviews, between discourse analysis & sociology £ 10.-
12 Blondheim, D S: Les Parlers Judéo-Romans et la Vetus Latina. Étude sur les rapports entre les traductions bibliques en lange Romane des Juifs au Moyen Age et les Anciennes Versions. Paris: Champion 1925. cxxxviii 247p 24cm cloth, 60p indices, VG+ £ 20.-
13 Bradley, Henry: The Making of English. Macmillan 1906. viii 245p cloth (worn), rather worn ex lib copy £ 5.-
14 Buckley, Eugene: Theoretical Aspects of Kashaya Phonology and Morphology. Stanford: CSLI 1994. xii 408p 23cm card cover, bibliogr, new. Pomoan language in norther California £ 10.-
15 Burchfield, Robert: The English Language. OUP 1985. 194p hb, dj, index, figures, VG+ compact history: from Runes to Dispersed Forms of Current English £ 15.-
16 Burke, Peter: The Art of Conversation. Cornell UP 1993. viii 178p card cover, index, bibliogr, as new: Social History of Language, History of Silence, Conversation Arts, Post-Medieval Latin, Language & Identity etc £ 12.-
17 Bynon, Theodora: Historical Linguistics. CUP 1990. x 310p 23cm pb, index, bibliogr, VG £ 7.-
18 Cabourdin, Guy; Viard, Georges: Lexique Historique de la France d'Ancien Régime. Paris: Colin 1978. 228p 23cm pb, illus, index, VG ex lib copy £ 10.-
19 Campbell, Jeremy: Grammatical Man. Information, Entropy, Language and Life. NY: Simon & Schuster 1982. 319p card cover, index, some ink underlining and notes on back endpaper £ 12.-
20 Carroll, John: Language and Thought. (Foundations of Modern Psychology) Prentice Hall 1966. 118p 23cm pb, index, illustrations, ex lib, clean copy £ 5.-
21 Chadwick, John: The Decipherment of Linear B. CUP 1960. ix 154p 23cm cloth, dj, illus, index, VG+ £ 10.-
22 Chadwick, J: Decipherment of Linear B. 2nd Ed. CUP 1984. x 164p 22cm card cover, illus, index, VG+ £ 8.-
23 Chomsky, Noam: Problems of Knowledge & Freedom. Fontana 1972. 95p pb, VG+ £ 6.-
24 Noam Chomsky. Critical Assessments. Ed. Carlos Itero. Routledge 1994. 4 vols (of 8) boxed, approx 1600p 24cm, a comprehensive Festschrift, for which a loss of 50% might be a gain £ 24.-
25 Clifford, Paula: Inversion of the Subject in French Narrative Prose from 1500 to the Present Day. Blackwell 1973. (Pub Philolog Soc 24) vi 453p 22cm hb, dj, bibliogr, indices, as new £ 14.-
26 Cobbett, William: A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters. Dolby 1819. 186p, half claf marbeled boards, endpapers scribbled, a fresh and nice copy of the first GB edition £ 86.-
27 Corbett, Geville: Gender. CUP 1991. (Cambr Textbooks in Linguistics) xix 364p card cover, indices, bibliogr, illus, new: THe Puzzles of a grammatical category £ 10.-
28 Communicators, by Irene Franck & David Brownstone. NY: Facts on File 1986. (Work Throughout History) xii 228p 24cm half cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, illus, no footnotes: Authors, Clerks, Editors, Journalists, Messengers, Printers, Publishers, Secretaries etc £ 12.-
29 Cooper, Robert: Language Planning & Social Change. CUP 1989. viii 216p 24cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG £ 10.-
30 Crystal, David: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Guild (CUP) 1988. vii 472p 28cm hb, dj, illus throughout, indices, glossary, bibliogr, VG+ £ 24.-
31 Dauzat, A: Le Génie de la Langue Française. Paris: Payot 1947 (1943). 359p 22cm pb, paper yellowed VG £ 6.-
32 Dehara, Hiroaki: Conflict Between Languages. Japanese publication, in English, 146p, cloth, dj, author inscription: the limits of intercultural translation £ 8.-
33 Devitt, Amy: Standardizing Written English. Diffusion in the Case of Scotland, 1520 - 1659. CUP 1989. xi 122p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, tables, new: Scots-English to Anglo-English £ 14.-
34 Duez, Danielle: La pause dans la parole de l'homme politique. Paris: CNRS 1991. 165p 23cm, card, as new £ 10.-
35 Dunlea, Anne: Vision and the Emergence of Meaning. Blind and Sighted Children's Early Language. CUP 1989. xv 196p 24cm hb, dj, indices, bibliogr, illus, as new (stamped) (30.-) £ 10.-
36 Durrant, E D: The Language Problem. Its History and Solution. Esperanto Pub 1943. 168p pb, sl worn, index £ 10.-
37 English Language Teaching in India. Issues and Innovations. Ed. R K Agnihotri, A Khanna. Delhi: Sage 1995. 338p cloth, dj, as new £ 12.-
38 An Epistemology for the Language Sciences. Edited by Alexander Guiora. = Language Learning, A Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 33, 1983, No 5, Special Issue £ 8.-
39 Erpenius, Thoma: Rudimenta Linguae Arabicae; adjecit Alb. Schultens: Florilegium Sententiarum Arabicarum ut et Clavim Dialectorum ac praesentim Arabicae, Editio altera, aucta indicibus, Lugundi Batavorum: Luchtmans/Mair 1770, 374p quarto, approx 100p indices, slight foxing on first few pages, new cloth spine and new boards, a fresh and firm copy £ 240.-
40 [Esperanto] Privat, Edmond: The Life of Zamenhof, Inventor of Esperanto. transl R Eliott. Allen & Unwin 1931. 123p cloth, dj, frontisp, VG+ £ 16.-
41 [Esperanto] Janton, Pierre: Esperanto: Language, Literature, Community. New York: SUNY Press 1993. xiii, 169p 23cm, hb, bibliogr, index, VG, account of the esperanto movement £ 12.-
42 [Esperanto] De La Cruz Michel, Andres: Idioma Internacional. Leno Gi-Nasu. Mexico 1945. 64p 16cm card, VG+ £ 25.-
43 [Esperanto] Mirabeau, Octave: Ili estis frenezaj; plus: Andrejev, Leonid: Ruga Rido. Paris: Presa Esperantista, 1906. (Libraro Pacifisma 5) £ 15.-
44 Evans, S J: Studies in Welsh Grammar and Philology. Cardiff: Educ Pub 1890? 244p cloth, fresh £ 14.-
45 Ewart, Neil: Everyday Phrases. Their Origins and Meanings. Guild 1985. 162p hb, dj, VG+ £ 8.-
46 Ewing, Irene: Lipreading. Introd Sir Henry Miers. Manchester University Press 1930 ix 73p index, cloth, VG+ £ 8.-
47 Exercises, Instructive and Entertaining in False English, Written with a View to Perfect Youth in their Mother Tongue... and give them a Relish for What is Ornamental, Useful and Good. 18th Edition. Leeds: Heaton 1823. viii 111p 18cm full leather, disbound, text clean £ 24.-
48 Extension et Limites des Théories du Langage (1880 - 1980). Ed. J L Chiss. (Histoire Epistemologie Language 11, 2, 1989) 169p 22cm card cover, VG £ 6.-
49 First Language Attrition. Ed. Herbert Seliger, R Vago. CUP 1991. xvii 258p card cover, index, VG+ £ 12.-
50 Fletcher, Paul & Garman, Michael: (Eds) Language Acquisition. Studies in First Language Development. 2nd Edition. CUP 1990. xii 613p 23cm pb, bibliogr, index, tables, as new, significantly enlarged £ 15.-
51 Follett, Wilson: Modern American Usage. Ed. J Barzun. Longmans 1966. x 346p 22cm cloth, dj, ex lib £ 10.-
52 Fowler, H W: The King's English. Oxford: Clarendon, 1936. 383p 19cm cloth (fresh), VG+, the Royal Police of written English. £ 8.-
53 Goodwin, William: Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb. Macmillan 1897. xxxii 464p 23cm cloth, index, unopened ex lib copy £ 18.-
54 Gordon, Ian: The Movement of English Prose. Longman 1972. viii 182p 22cm hb, dj, VG+ ex lib, history of English prose £ 14.-
55 Gowers, Ernest: Plain Words. A Guide to the Use of English. HMSO 1948 vi 94p 22cm paper, index, worn & w/ a few marks £ 5.-
56 Grimshaw, Allen: (Ed.) Conflict Talk. Sociolinguistic Investigations of Arguments in Conversations. CUP 1990. x 356p 24cm, hb, index, bibliogr, stamped, as new (£ 55.-) £ 16.-
57 Gumperz, John: Discourse Strategies. CUP 1992 (1982) xii 225p card cover, index, bibliogr, a VG+ copy of this bible of pragmatics £ 12.-
58 Harris, James: Hermes, Or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar. Wingrave 1806. xix 442p 22cm, sturdy half leather ex lib binding, frontisp (Hermes), index, the 6th ed, solid, sl foxing but clean £ 46.-
59 Harris, John: English Sound Structure. Blackwell 1994. xiii 317p card cover, index, bibliogr, as new but just sl warped £ 16.-
60 Harris, Roy: The Language Machine. Cornell UP 1987. 182p cloth, dj, index, new: The mechanical metaphor in linguistic theories, very clever £ 12.-
61 Hayakawa, S I: Language in Action. NY: Harcourt 1941. xii 345p 20cm cloth, illus, index, a few underlinings in pencil, VG. Very influential text: from General Semantics to Watzlawik £ 14.-
62 Hearing by Eye. The Psychology of Lip-Reading. Ed. Barbara Dodd, R Campbell. Hillsdale: Erlbaum 1987. x 268p 23cm hb, indices, as new £ 14.-
63 Heim, Michael: The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. NY: OUP 1993. xxiv 175p 24cm hb, dj, index, new £ 14.-
64 Herdan, G: Language as Choice and Chance. Groningen: Noordhoff 1956. xiii 356p 25cm hb, dj, many tables, index, bibliographies, VG+. Fully developed account of linguistic statistics or language technology, from stylistics to information theory and linguistic duality £ 18.-
65 Hillert, Dieter: (Ed.) Linguistics and Cognitice Neuroscience. Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Language Disorders. = Linguistische Berichte, Sonderheft 6, 1994. Westdt Verlag 1994. 270p card cover, as new £ 12.-
66 Himley, Margaret: Shared Territory. Understanding Children's Writing as Works. NY: OUP 1991. 234p 22cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, as new £ 12.-
67 Hinde, Robert: (Ed.) Non-Verbal Communication. CUP 1979. xiii 443p card cover, index, bibliogr, many illus, VG+, based on a conference organised by Julian Huxley £ 16.-
68 Horne Tooke, John: EPEA PTEROENTA, or the Diversions of Purley. Part 2 [only] London: Tegg 1826. 591p 22cm, full calf, boards detached, binding firm but no spine, 30p index, text clean & fresh £ 20.-
69 Humboldt, Wilhelm: On Language. The Diversity of Human Language- Structure and its Influence on the Mental Development of Mankind. transl P Heath, introd H Aarsleff. CUP 1989. lxix 296p card cover, index, glossary VG £ 12.-
70 [Iordan, Iorgu]: Omgio lui Iorgu iorgan cu prilejul implinirii a 70 de ani. Bucarest : Academiei 1958. xxxii 946p 28cm cloth, plates, illus, index, bibliogr of I's extensive works, VG, very cheap £ 10.-
71 Janson, Tore; Tsonope, J: Birth of a National Language. The History of Setswana. Heinemann Botswana, Nir UP 1991. vi 165p 19cm card cover, index, bibliogr, lists, as new: £ 12.-
72 Jellinek, Max Hermann: Geschichte der Neuhochdeutschen Grammatik, von den Anfängen bis auf Adelung. Heidelberg: Winter 1913/14. 2 vols x 392p, xi 503p cloth, indices, VG+ set £ 26.-
73 Jespersen, Otto: Language. Its Nature, Development and Origin. Allen & Unwin 1954 (1922). 442p cloth, index, VG, first 100p cover the history of linguistics £ 12.-
74 Jopson, N B: The Distribution and Inter-Relations of the Slavonic Peoples and Languages. Inaugural Lecture, London 1922. 28p 19cm card cover fresh £ 4.-
75 Jukes, Andrew: The Names of God in Holy Scripture. A Revelation of His Nature and Relationships. Longmans 1888. viii 226p cloth, VG+ £ 12.-
76 Keuffer, Max: Die Stadt-Metzer Kanzleien und ihre Bedeutung für die Geschichte des "Romans". Erlangen: Junge, 1895. vii 142p 24cm wrappers, appendix with sources, "hommage d'auteur" VG £ 20.-
77 King, Christopher: One Language, Two Scripts. The Hindi Movement in 19th C North India. Bombay: OUP 1994. xi 232p 23cm cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, tables, chronology, as new £ 15.-
78 Korzybski, Alfred: Le Role du Language dans les Processus Perceptuels. NY: Non-Aristotelian Library, 1965. 50p 23cm stapled, Count A K, one of the fathers of General Semantics, VG £ 6.-
79 Land, Stephen: From Signs to Propositions. The Concept of Form in Eighteenth Century Semantic Theory. Longman 1974. viii 202p 22cm hb dj bibliogr index VG £ 12.-
80 Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate: Nukespeak Today. Ed. Paul Chilton. Pinter 1985. xxiii 244p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, VG: Essays on Peacemongering, Rhetoric of Defense in the US, Discourse of Deterrence, Humor as Resistance, Critical Linguistics etc £ 15.-
81 [langue d'Oc] Miracles Que Dieus ha mostratz per sant Frances apres la sua Fi. Versione Occitane de la Legenda Maior Sancti Francisci, Miracula De Saint Bonaventure. Ed. Ingrid Arthur. Uppsala: Academy 1992. xvi 201p 25cm card cover, full scholarly edition, as new £ 16.-
82 [langue d'Oc] Trinquier, Pierre: Proverbes & dictons de la langue d'Oc. UP du Languedoc 1993. 235p 24cm card cover, index, based on abbé Boissier de Sauvages (1750-80), collaborator of Diderot. £ 10.-
83 Lawton, Denis: Social Class, Language and Education. Routledge 1968. x 181p 22cm, cloth, tables, index, bib. Contains a critique of Bernstein on language and class. VG £ 10.-
84 Lederer, Richard: Anguished English. An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon our Language. Robson 1989. viii 118p 19cm, card cover, illus, VG+ £ 8.-
85 Lenneberg, Eric: Biological Foundations of Language. Appendix by Noam Chomsky, Otto Marx. NY: Wiley 1967. xvi 489p cloth, index, bibliographies, illus, a broad-ranging, scholarly overview £ 20.-
86 Lindsay, W M: A Short Historical Latin Grammar. Oxford: Clarendon 1915. xii 224p cloth, VG £ 12.-
87 Linguistic Complexity and Text Comprehension. Readability Issues Reconsidered. Ed. A Davidson, G Green. Hillsdale: Erlbaum 1988. viii 291p 24cm hb, illus, indices, as new £ 10.-
88 Masthrie, Rajend: English in Language Shift. The History, Structure and Sociolinguistics of South African Indian English. CUP 1992. xvi 252p hb, dj, index, bibliogr, tables, as new £ 16.-
89 Max Müller, Friedrich: A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners, in Devanagari and Roman Letters throughout. 2nd Ed, Revised & Accentuated. Longmans 1870. xxiv 300p cloth, top of spine torn, VG £ 24.-
90 Max Müller, Friedrich: Chips from a German Workshop. 4 vols, Longmans 1868 - 1875. Vol 1 and 2 second ed, Vol 3 and 4 first ed. 500p each, VG ex lib set (College Library), two spines repaired £ 120.-
91 Max Müller, Friedrich: Lectures on the Science of Language, delivered at the Royal Institution 1861. Longman 1862. x 420p 24cm original cloth spine repaired, index, genealog tables, VG+ 3rd edition, recased, but titlepage sl damaged by erasure £ 32.-
92 Morot-Sir, Edouard: The Imagination of Reference. Meditating the Linguistic Condition. Florida UP 1993. xi 171p 23cm cloth, dj, as new, "reference-criticism" £ 15.-
93 Morsbach, Lorenz: Über den Ursprung der Neuenglischen Schriftsprache. Heilbronn: Henninger 1888. x 188p cloth, VG+ ex lib copy £ 16.-
94 Mühlhäusler, Peter; Harré, Rom: Pronouns and People. The Linguistic Construction of Social and Personal Identity. Blackwell 1990. vii 303p 23cm hb, indices, illus, VG (40.-) £ 16.-
95 Multilingualism in the British Isles. Vol 2: Africa, The Middle East & Asia. Ed. Dafder Alladina, V Edwards. Longman 1991. xii 277p 19cm card cover, index, VG+ £ 10.-
96 Myers-Scotton, Carol: Duelling Languages. Grammatical Structures in Codeswitching. Clarendon 1993. xiv 263p 23cm hb, dj, bibliogr, indices, as new £ 14.-
97 Nitchie, Edward: Lip Reading: Principles & Practice. Methuen 1920?. 324p 20cm, sl soiled, poor £ 3.-
98 Opie, Iona & Peter: The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. OUP 1967. xviii 417p pb, indices, illus, VG £ 8.-
99 Osgood, Charles (et al): The Measurement of Meaning. Illinois UP 1965. 240p 24cm cloth, illus, bibliogr, some pencil notes £ 12.-
100 Partridge, Eric: Usage and Abusage, A Guide to Good English. BCA 1980. 392p 23cm hb, VG £ 8.-
101 Peacock, Mabel: Tales and Rhymes in the Lindsey Folk-Speech. Jackson 1886. 136p 18cm decor cloth, minor pencil notes, VG+ £ 28.-
102 Pike, Kenneth: Linguistic Concepts. An Introduction to Tagmemics. Nebraska UP 1982. xvi 146p cloth, index, illus, VGV+ £ 12.-
103 Pillet, Roger: Foreign Language Study. Perspective & Prospect. Chicago UP 1974. x 194p 22cm cloth, dj £ 10.-
104 The Chief Elements Used in English Place-Names, Ed. Allen Mawer. CUP 1930. ix 67p 23cm cloth, dj, VG+ £ 10.-
105 Introduction to the Survey of English Place-Names, Ed. Allen Mawer. CUP 1925. xi 189p 23cm cloth, index laid in, VG+; The Chief Elements Used in English Place-Names, Ed. Allen Mawer. CUP 1924. ix 67p 23cm cloth (=English Place-Name Society, Vol 1, part 1 & 2), VG set £ 25.-
106 Potter, Simeon: Modern Linguistics. Deutsch 1957. (Language Library) 192p 22cm hb, dj, index, ex lib, VG £ 8.-
107 Psyche. An Annual of General and Linguistic Psychology. Ed. C K Odgen. Vol XV (1935) only. Cambr: Orthological Inst. 254p 24cm half cloth, VG. Inscription by William Empson, contrib, also Odgen & Richards, teaching of Basic in Moscow, with plate) £ 15.-
108 Rauch, Elisabeth: Sprachrituale in institutionellen und institutionallisierten Text- und Gesprächssorten. Bern: Lang 1992. 441p card cover, VG+ lib duplicate (new DM 99.-) £ 12.-
109 Read, Charles: Children's Creative Spelling. Routledge 1986. xi 160p 22cm hb, dj, index, tables, bibliogr, VG+ £ 10.-
110 Reading Children's Writing. A Linguistic View. John Harris, Jeff Wilkinson, et al. Allen & Unwin 1986. xiv 218p card cover, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 12.-
111 Reimann, Hans: Mit Roter Tinte. Leipzig: Matthes 1919. 16p 15cm, paper cover, disbound, paper fragile & browned. Angry pamphlet against decline of language, pref. dated Im Felde £ 12.-
112 Renaissance Linguistic Archive 1350 - 1700. A Second Print-out from the Secondary Sources Database. Ferrara: Istituto Studi Rinascimentali 1988. xv 298p 23cm card cover, three indices, a comprehensive bibliogr; together with: Henry Sweet Society, Newsletter, Supplement: Checklist of Library Holdings [Keeble College Oxford]. (1990) Ed. P Salmon. 112p 22cm card cover, both items smoke-soiled £ 12.-
113 Renfrew, Colin: Archaeology and Language. The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins. CUP 1987. xiv 346p 24cm hb (minor water damage), dj, index, bibliogr, plates, illus, VG £ 15.-
114 Robins, R H: General Linguistics. An Introductory Survey. Longman 1965. xxii 390p 23cm hb, index, VG £ 10.-
115 Robinson, Ian: The New Grammarian's Funeral. A Critique of Chomsky's Linguistics. CUP 1975 xiv 189p hb, dj, index VG+ £ 10.-
116 Robinson, Ian: The Survival of English. Essays in Criticism of Language. CUP 1974. vii 247p 23cm card cover, as new. Religious English, The Language of Love, Vulgarisation of The Times, etc £ 12.-
117 Rumor and Gossip. The Social Psychology of Hearsay. Ralph Rosnow; Gary Fine. Elsevier 1976. 166p 22cm cloth, index, appendix on rumor control, minor pencil notes, VG+ £ 14.-
118 Schleicher, August: A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages, Part 1. transl Herbert Bendall. Trübner 1874. xxiii 160p 24cm cloth, VG £ 12.-
119 Schütz, Albert: The Voices of Eden. A History of Hawaiian Languages Studies. Hawaii UP 1994. xx 522p card cover, index, 100p annotated bibliogr, as new: The Noble Savage Speaks etc £ 16.-
120 Seshagiri Sastri, M: Notes on Aryan and Dravidian Philology (1884). Repr Delhi 1982. xix, xxxi, xl, 207p 4p 22cm cloth, VG £ 15.-
121 Shepherd, Valerie: Language Variety and the Art of the Everyday. Pinter 1970. xiii 202p 23cm hb, dj, index, bibliogr, new. Non-standard English in Hardy, Tennyson et al, Women and Language £ 16.-
122 Shuman, Amy: Storytelling Rights. The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents. CUP 1986 (Camb St in Oral & Lit Culture 11) ix 227p 24cm, hb, index, bibliogr, stamped, as new £ 10.-
123 Smith, Pearsall Logan: Words and Idioms. Studies in the English Language. Constable 1943. x 300p 18cm cloth, dj, index, VG: English Sea terms, Romantic Words, Popular Speech and Standard English, Bodily Idioms, etc £ 10.-
124 Stewart, George: Names on the Globe. OUP 1975. ix 411p cloth, index, VG+ ex lib: Man the Namer, Namers at Work, Place-Names as Sources £ 15.-
125 Strainchamps, Ethel: Don't Never Say Cain't. An Autobiography. NY: Doubleday, 1965. 168p 22cm cloth, dj, VG+. Linguistic socialisation in Ozark, Missouri, the autobiography of a linguist £ 10.-
126 Stray, Christopher (Ed.): Grinders and Grammars. A Victorian Controversy. privately printed, 1 of 100 copies only. Documents & studies the dispute about Kennedy's Latin Primer £ 12.-
127 Stray, Christopher (Ed.): The Mushri-English Pronouncing Dictionary. A Chapter in 19th C Public School Lexicography. Swansea: privately published, 1995. 86p card cover, limited ed. of 325 copies £ 15.-
128 Studies in Spelling. London UP 1961. Ed. H J Robbie, Scottish C Research in Educ. ix 208p hb, dj, VG+ £ 10.-
129 Sweet, Henry: The History of Language. Dent 1900 (Temple Primers) xi 148p cloth, VG £ 12.-
130 The Function of Tense in Texts. Ed. J Gvozdanovic; T Janssen. Amsterdam: North Holland 1991. ix 292p card cover, as new £ 15.-
131 Thass-Thienemann, Theodore: Symbolic Behaviour. NY: Washington Sq Pr 1968. ix 498p cloth, indices, bibliogr, few pencil notes, VG. Language, Psychology, Symbolism of the Body, epistemological etymology £ 14.-
132 Thomas, D W: The Recovery of the Ancient Hebrew Language. Inaugural Lecture. CUP 1939. 43p card cover, very fresh copy £ 12.-
133 Tota Kahani; or, Tales of a Parrot in the Hindustani Language, translated from the Tuti Nama, by Saiyid Haidar Bakhsh, surnamed Haidari. New Edition, with vowel points, and a vocabulary, ed. Duncan Forbes. London: Allen 1852. ex lib copy, pagin in hindu, half leather (extr worn), some annotations in pencil, still nice £ 12.-
134 La Tradition Espagnole d'Analyse Linguistique. Ed. Ramon Sarmiento. (Histoire Epist Language 9, 2, 1987) 168p 22cm card cover, VG+ £ 8.-
135 Trench, Richard Chenevix: On the Study of Words. Kegan Paul, Trench 1888. xii 348p 18cm cloth (minor faults) index, still VG £ 16.-
136 Trudgill, Peter: On Dialect. Social and Geographical Perspectives. Blackwell 1984. viii 240p card cover, index, bibliogr, VG+ £ 14.-
137 Ullmann, Stephen: Language and Style. Collected Papers. Blackwell 1964. viii 270p cloth, dj, index, ex lib, VG+ £ 12.-
138 Urban, Wilbur: Language and Reality. The Philosophy of Language and the Principles of Symbolism. Allen & Unwin 1939. 745p cloth, indices, VG+ fresh copy of 1st ed, library stamp £ 16.-
139 Wardhaugh, Ronald: Topics in Applied Linguistics. Newbury 1974. 206p 23cm, cloth, dj (worn) VG ex lib, on Spelling, Reading, SLT, etc £ 10.-
140 Wartburg, Walther v: Évolution et Structure de la Langue Française. Bern: Francke 1950. x 324p 22cm cloth, dj, neat pencil annotations, partly as running transl £ 8.-
141 Wartburg, Walther v: Problèmes et Méthodes de la Linguistique. Paris: PUF 1946. vi 214p 22cm card, sl dusty, VG £ 6.-
142 Watzlawick, Paul (et al): Pragmatics of Human Communication. A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes. Faber 1968. 196p 22cm cloth, index, bibliogr, pencil notes, £ 12.-
143 Weekley, Ernest: The Romance of Words (1912). Murray/Guild 1949. 175p pb £ 2.-
144 Weisse, John: Origin, Progress and Destiny of the English Language and Literature. NY: Boulton 1879. 701p 24cm orig cloth sl worn, many tables of linguistic development (distribution of linguist origins etc), VG £ 18.-
145 Welsh Phonology. Selected Readings. Ed. Martin Ball. Cardiff: Wales UP 1984. xi 283p 23cm hb, dj, new £ 12.-
146 [Welsh] Sadler, Louisa: Welsh Syntax. A Government - Binding Approach. Croom Helm 1988. 288p 22cm hb, dj, appendix, bibliogr, index, as new £ 15.-
147 Wilden, Anthony: The Rules are no Game. The Strategy of Communication. With: Women in Production: The Chorus Line, 1932 - 1980. Routledge 1987. xv 432p 24cm hb, dj, many illus, bibliogr, index, context theory, a wild book £ 18.-
148 Words for Robert Burchfield's 65th Birthday. Ed. E G Stanley, T F Hoad. Cambridge: Brewer, 1988. 198p 24cm, hb, dj, insignif watersoiling, as new. Festschrift for the editor of the OED supplement. 15 essays on various aspects of English linguistics, incl. a study of "interdisciplinary" £ 14.-
149 Yule, George: The Study of Language. An Introduction. CUP 1985. vii 220p hb, index, bibliogr, VG+. A material and methodological survey of all aspects of linguistics £ 12.-
Lexicography & Dictionaries
151 Hulbert, J R: Dictionaries, British & American. Deutsch 1955. 107p 22cm hb, dj, short hist of lexicogr £ 10.-
152 Murray, K M E: Caught in the Web of Words. James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary. Yale UP 1977. xii 368p 24cm cloth, dj, index, plates, nice clean copy VG+ £ 12.-
153 Tancke, Gunnar: Die italienischen Wörterbücher von den Anfängen bis zum Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612). Tübingen: Niemeyer 1984. vii 270p 24cm cloth, bibliogr, library stamp as new £ 16.-
154 Willinski, John: Empire of Words. The Reign of the OED. Princeton UP 1994. viii 258p cloth, dj, index, bibliogr, tables, new £ 14.-
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