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  • BASTARD TONGUES: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages. by Bickerton, Derek.
    Bickerton, Derek.
    BASTARD TONGUES: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Hill & Wang, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all - Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. . . Bickerton has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. . . a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer." Double page map, glossary, index. suggested reading. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-28174.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 56321
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  • DICTIONARY OF WORD ROOTS AND COMBINING FORMS: Compiled from the Greek, Latin and Other Languages with Special Reference to Biological Terms and Scientific Names. by Borror, Donald J.
    Borror, Donald J.
    DICTIONARY OF WORD ROOTS AND COMBINING FORMS: Compiled from the Greek, Latin and Other Languages with Special Reference to Biological Terms and Scientific Names.

    Edition: Later printing.

    Palo Alto, CA: National Press Books, (1970, c 1960). From the preface - "One of the outstanding problems of the biologist, whether he be beginning student or specialists, is that of understanding technical terms. The best way to understand and remember technical terms is to understand first their component parts, or roots. . . This dictionary has been designed primarily to meet the needs of the beginning student, the medical student, and the taxonomist, but it should be of value to all biologists."

    Condition: Near fine in sturdy blue-grey stapled wrappers with silver lettering.

    Book ID: 88709
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  • THE MALEDICTION IN INDO-EUROPEAN TRADITION. by Falco, Jeffrey Louis (1947-2009)
    Falco, Jeffrey Louis (1947-2009)
    THE MALEDICTION IN INDO-EUROPEAN TRADITION.

    Edition: First printing.

    Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services. 1992;. First edition - A doctoral dissertation which focuses on the long history and linguistic richness of curses. " One way to create order out of the welter of ethnographic and literary sources on cursing is to survey the material thematically, the approach taken in [this dissertation] Drawing upon Indic, Hittite, Mesopotamian, Greco-Roman, Germanic, and Celtic literary sources, Falco offers examples of curses that reference such universal themes as the body and its parts (particularly the eye), food and hunger, sex, childlessness, homelessness, and pursuit and also more culturally specific themes such as allusions to swine and the sea and metaphors of atavistic dissolution into water, earth, and ashes. Particularly elaborate is the so-called…

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    Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services. 1992;. First edition - A doctoral dissertation which focuses on the long history and linguistic richness of curses. " One way to create order out of the welter of ethnographic and literary sources on cursing is to survey the material thematically, the approach taken in [this dissertation] Drawing upon Indic, Hittite, Mesopotamian, Greco-Roman, Germanic, and Celtic literary sources, Falco offers examples of curses that reference such universal themes as the body and its parts (particularly the eye), food and hunger, sex, childlessness, homelessness, and pursuit and also more culturally specific themes such as allusions to swine and the sea and metaphors of atavistic dissolution into water, earth, and ashes. Particularly elaborate is the so-called Hittite Soldiers Oath, actually more of a threat of sanction than an oath, which charges that any soldiers breaking the military code will be changed "into women, and may they dress them in a womanly fashion É and let them place in their hands a distaff and a spindle . . . that they suffer defeat in battle and in lawsuits and in marketplace, and that they perish utterly" (Enclyopedia dot com) Bibliography. 206 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in blue wrappers with title label on front cover.

    Book ID: 85556
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  • EARLY KINGDOMS IN MADAGASCAR 1500-1700. by Kent, Raymond K.
    Kent, Raymond K.
    EARLY KINGDOMS IN MADAGASCAR 1500-1700.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1970) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on detailed research into the precolonial history of Madagascar in an attempt to provide a more balanced answer to the questions of how the early kingdoms formed, their growth, and why did they change. He discovered that African influences -versus those from Asia - were more significant than previously thought. Illustrated with black and white photographs and 12 maps. xvi, 336 pp. ISBN: 0-030841712.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (sunning to spine and upper edge of dj.)

    Book ID: 47215
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  • Martin, Russell.
    OUT OF SILENCE. A Journey into Language.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Henry Holt, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fascinating, and highly praised, story of a little boy trapped in silence and struggling to regain language. Dustjacket praise from Richard Selzer and Ivan Doig. ISBN: 0-8050-19987.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 4761
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  • Martin, Russell.
    OUT OF SILENCE. A Journey into Language.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Henry Holt, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fascinating, and highly praised, story of a little boy trapped in silence and struggling to regain language. Dustjacket praise from Richard Selzer and Ivan Doig. ISBN: 0-8050-19987.

    Condition: SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 29017
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  • THE LANGUAGES OF FIJI. by Schutz, Albert J., (Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii.)
    Schutz, Albert J., (Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii.)
    THE LANGUAGES OF FIJI.

    Edition: First printing.

    Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1972. Hardcover first edition - Frontispiece of Rev. David Cargill. Illustrated. Maps. Bibliography. Index.xii, 120 pp. ISBN: 0-19-8151365.

    Condition: Very good overall in dark blue cloth with rubbing to the spine, lacking the dj (prev owner's name,) Uncommon,

    Book ID: 47956
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  • ELOQUENCE IN TROUBLE: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh. by Wilce, James M.
    Wilce, James M.
    ELOQUENCE IN TROUBLE: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - "The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology." A title in the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. Photographs, list of key characters, notes, references, index and glossary. xix, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-195106873.

    Condition: Fine (a new copy) in light tan boards with silver lettering, no dust jacket as issued.

    Book ID: 72781
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