Linguistics Books
Johns Hopkins University Press The Mysteries of New Orleans The Longfellow
Book SynopsisThis edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.Trade ReviewUncovering the vices of a city that was steeped in sexual promiscuity of every variety and crimes of greed, passion and malice... Reizenstein invests a good many satiric jibes at religion, society and human nature in general. A mixture of naturalistic realism and gothic melodrama, Mysteries of New Orleans really focuses most of its attention on the city of its title. Reizenstein's greatest talent is for minute detail, and, under his scrutiny, very little that goes on in the city escapes his notice... Steven Rowan's astute and clearly written introduction and his very informative notes on each chapter are helpful in understanding the historic context of the book. His translation allows readers a glimpse into a city whose varied and intriguing population has created a potpourri as rich today as it was 150 years ago when Baron von Reizenstein took up residence and took up his pen. -- Mary McCay New Orleans Times-Picayune The essence of New Orleans is invested in a history of vice, vagrancy, and pirate vibes... What is [this] history exactly? In The Mysteries of New Orleans a novel written in the mid-nineteenth century by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, just published by Johns Hopkins University Press, the squalor is more vivid that anything we might mention today. The Baron was just reporting. Andrei Codrescu, NPR's All Things Considered Ethnic American literature has found legitimacy in the classroom, so this novel comes as a welcome surprise... This roman a clef include[s] scandalous depictions of salacious antebellum life amid the European, African, mulatto, and Creole societies that intermingled in the city... The book offers a rare and candid look into a much earlier time. A significant document. Choice 2003 Painstakingly reconstructed... Has... taken its place as a founding text for a city whose open and tolerant atmosphere was no longer any mystery at all. -- Christopher Capozzola Bay Windows 2005Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionSearching for a Key to The MysteriesMemoranda for the Sympathetic ReaderProloguePart IChapter 1. Lucy WilsonChapter 2. The MasqueradeChapter 3. Two SistersChapter 4. A Night After the HoneymoonChapter 5. A Welcome GuestChapter 6. Don Juan in HellChapter 7. Parasina Brulard-HotchkissChapter 8. An Intermezzo and Further Events at Madame Brulard'sChapter 9. The Southern CrossChapter 10. Mantis ReligiosaChapter 11. The Negro FamilyChapter 12. SullaChapter 13. The ManuscriptPart IIChapter 14. Jenny and FridaChapter 15. Far AwayChapter 16. The Assault on Looking-Glass PrairieChapter 17. Gretchen in the BushChapter 18. Unexpected Chapter 19. Searching for a Bride Chapter 20. Lesbian LoveChapter 21. AlbertPart IIIChapter 22. One Year LaterChapter 23. Under The Live OaksChapter 24. The Coffee PickersChapter 25. The Prince of Württemberg Chapter 26. Aunty CelestineChapter 27. Corybantic FitsChapter 28. In the Hamburg MillChapter 29. Clubmen of the 99th and 100th DegreeChapter 30. Under the BedPart IVPrologue: The Fata Morgana of the SouthChapter 31. Angel and GeniusChapter 32. On the Flight to NinevehChapter 33. InterludesChapter 34. A Parrot in Cupid's ServiceChapter 35. A Letter From the West, or, The Voice of a Friend From HighlandChapter 36. The Confession Chapter 37. Complications and RevelationsChapter 38. One Night in the Life of a Young WomanPart VPrologue: The Criminals' Dock on the MesaChapter 39. Red Today, Dead TomorrowChapter 40. The NurseChapter 41. How It HappenedChapter 42. The ReunionChapter 43. The Journey to the Place of ExecutionEpilogueNotes
£37.50
Johns Hopkins University Press The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and
Book SynopsisAn international, encyclopedic guide to the field's most important figures, schools, and movements, the new edition reflects the state of literary theory and criticism.Trade ReviewNothing quite matches this in scope and depth. Taken as a whole, the guide provides a synoptic overview of literary theory from a twentieth-century Western point of view. The articles are succinct and pointed. -- Jeffrey R. Luttrell American Reference Books Annual, 1995 A massive, double-columned Yellow Pages of lit crit. If it falls between Abrams and Zola, historically between Plato and postmodernism, intellectually between Aristotle and feminism, or geographically between Japanese Theory and Criticism and Caribbean, you can probably find it here. -- Ray Carney Partisan Review A superlative work of reference that can be read for information, and not just another overview. It provides a comprehensive historical survey of ideas and scholars from Plato to modern times, examining developments in other disciplines which have shaped literary theory and criticism. -- Shelley Walla Literary Review Two centuries ago this jumbo-size book would have come into the world not modestly as a 'guide' but as a fully fledged encyclopedia. It divides a whole field of knowledge into its constituent parts and presents them in alphabetical order with great lucidity... This is a text whose coverage and the general excellence of its entries really will suit the everyday business of study and research. -- Simon During The Australian This comprehensive and easily understood reference book will serve as an indispensable guide for helping students or scholars assess and discuss an overwhelming body of material, especially such 'buzz' topics as multiculturalism. -- Cristian Salazar Bloomsbury Review Books such as Holman's Handbook to Literature define these concepts briefly but are no substitute for the Guide's analytical essays and their explanations of the development and significance of key critical theories and their methods. Since the Guide is more comprehensive and analytical than Wendell Harris's Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory, no academic library reference collection can do without it. Wilson Library Bulletin An uncommonly absorbing reference book that attempts to map changes wrought by an anxious new worldliness and self-consciousness among scholars, which the term 'theory' connotes... For writers and critics, [this] is a must, but every committed reader will want to own it. San Francisco Chronicle First published in 1994, this title has established itself as one of the main references in the field, through well-written, in-depth articles on critics, schools, periods, and critical innovations of specific countries and ethnic traditions. Choice 2005 A satisfying offering in the discipline of literary theory; The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism endeabors to cover not only individual critics and philosophers from antiquity to the present day, but also the full range of the many diverse schools of critical thought. Kirkus Reviews This edition of the Guide is a terrific resource... I know I'll be consulting it frequently until the third edition arrives. -- James Phelan University of Toronto Quarterly 2006 In all, the Guide's substantial essays provide an appropriately updated sense of the most important issues and figures in contemporary theoretical discussions of literature and interpretation. -- Mark M. Freed Journal of Midwest Modern Language Assoc. 2006 The new version of Guide will provide a new generation of scholars and students with an exhaustive reference, but it will also serve as a valuable and critical measurement of the discipline. Rocky Mountain Review 2005 Certainly it should (and I hope - will) be adopted by research librarians affiliated with any credible institution of higher learning. -- Matthew Biberman English Studies in Canada 2007Table of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsThe Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and CriticismList of EntriesList of Contributors Index of NamesIndex of Topics
£72.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Latin Inscriptions of Rome
Book SynopsisThis unique guide will prove a fascinating and illuminating companion for both sophisticated visitors to the Eternal City and armchair travelers seeking a novel perspective into Rome's rich history.Trade ReviewLatin is a less and less common attainment even among educated travellers, so Tyler Lansford has come to the rescue... If this book is not slipped into many a Rome-bound suitcase, there is no justice in the world. I can think of few more enjoyable companions on a prowl through the city. -- Jane Stevenson Times Literary Supplement 2010 The Latin Inscriptions of Rome is a delight, one to which I shall turn and to which I shall send my students when in Rome, and which I recommend to everyone interested in gaining a wealth of detailed information about 'the epigraphic habit' and its importance to our understanding not just of ancient Rome, but of every era of the Eternal City's incredible history. -- James C. Anderson Classical Outlook 2010 Tyler Lansford... has put together the most original and stimulating guide to the Eternal City of the hundreds published in recent years. -- Masolino D'Amico La Stampa 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionArms of Selected PopesGeneral Abbreviations and SymbolsLatin and Greek AbbreviationsGeneral Map1. The Capitoline Hill2. The Forum & Environs3. The Subura & Environs4. The Esquiline Hill5. From the Forum Boarium to San Paolo fuori le Mura6. From San Clemente to the Via Appia7. The Lateran & Environs8. The Quirinal Hill9. From San Marco to Piazza di Spagna10. From Piazza del Popolo to Piazza Colonna11. The Pantheon & Environs12. From Corso del Rinascimento to Via Giulia13. From Via del Pellegrino to Santa Cecilia14. From Ponte Sisto to the Acqua Paola15. The Borgo & the VaticanGlossaryMetrical SchemesIndex of First LinesIndex of Sites
£60.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Write an Effective Funding Application A Guide
Book SynopsisThe book includes detailed information on developing budgets, before and after versions of proposals, and descriptions of common pitfalls that everyone can avoid.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Prepare the Ground2. Plan Ahead3. Zoom In, Zoom Out: Putting Your Work in Context4. Notes toward the Text5. Un-Curb Your Enthusiasm6. The Budget: Core Strength7. Get It Down: The First Draft8. Get It Right: The Second Draft9. Get It Smooth: The Final Draft10. Get It Done: Review, Refresh, Release11. Close the Circle12. Build Your CredentialsAppendix A: Sample Research ProposalAppendix B: Sample Project SummaryAppendix C: Effective Letters of SupportAnnotated BibliographyIndex
£26.65
Ohio State University Press Trading Tongues Merchants Multilingualism and
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£999.99
University of Arizona Press Workbook to Accompany the Second Edition of
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£999.99
MP - University Of Minnesota Press A Bibliography of English Etymology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Sources Bibliography Journal Abbreviation List Supplement 1: Subject Reference Supplement 2: Publications Containing Mainly Lists of Words Borrowed into English and Containing Little or No Discussion of Their Origin Part Two: Word List Word List Supplement 1: Thesaurus Supplement 2: List of Regional Words Featured in this Volume Supplement 3: English Words of Certain and Possible Celtic Origin from the Works by John Davies and Mitsuhiko Ito Supplement 4: List of Archaic Words Featured in this Volume Supplement 5: List of Slang Words Featured in this Volume
£999.99
University of Hawai'i Press Remembering the Kanji 3 Writing and Reading the
Book SynopsisEmploys the same methods as Volumes 1 and 2 of Remembering the Kanji to introduce additional characters useful for upper-level proficiency, bringing the total of all three volumes to 3,000 kanji. The third edition has been updated to reflect the 196 new kanji approved by the government in 2010.
£35.95
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S. Latin Readings
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£30.38
Pro Lingua Learning The ESL Miscellany
Book SynopsisNow in its sixth edition, this is a well-loved, eclectic compendium of useful and interesting information for teachers and advanced English Language Learners. It is known among teachers as ‘the book you would most want to have with you if you were stuck on a desert island or teaching in a very remote place.’
£37.95
The University of Utah Press Reading and Writing the Lakota Language Book on
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£999.99
Georgetown University Press The Mystery of Culture Contacts Historical
Book SynopsisOffers a theoretical linguistic research to the areas of historical linguistics, cross-cultural communications, and text analysis. This title examines the crucial role that language plays in the many problems encountered in contacts between people from divergent cultural backgrounds.
£48.00
Georgetown University Press Taking Language Seriously The Narrative
Book SynopsisExamines the linguistic, discursive, and narrative foundations of public administration research and develops a narrative theory of knowledge development and use for the field.Trade ReviewThis serious, demanding book provides a valuable service to advanced students of public administration and their professors... [Jay D. White's] success is due primarily to his impressive command of the literature in [public administration and the philosophy of science] and his skillful integration of this literature into his overall argument. American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsPreface 1. A Narrative Theory of Knowledge for Public Administration Research Knowledge as Storytelling The Nature of the ArgumentsA Few Words about PositivismA Preview 2. Knowledge as Storytelling, Interpretation, and Critique Applied Research as StorytellingPublic Administration's Dissatisfaction with ExplanationWhat Is Going on in Other Fields?A Turn to Interpretation?Critical ResearchSummary 3. Three Modes of Research Explanatory ResearchInterpretive ResearchCritical ResearchFoundationsSummary 4. Administrative and Legal Reasoning: Understanding Explanatory, Interpretive, and Critical Rationality Instrumental ReasoningThe Structural Limits of the Rational ModelLegal ReasoningInterpretive and Critical ReasoningImplications for Knowledge Development and UseSummary 5. From Positivism to Postpositivism: The Linguistic Turn in the Philosophy of Science Philosophy and ScienceThe Cartesian AnxietyThe Myth of the GivenThe Correspondence Theory of TruthThe Critique of ExplanationThe Critique of InterpretationThe Linguistic Foundation of KnowledgeThe Practical Rationality of Theory ChoiceSummary6. The Action Movement in Administrative Research: Examples of Interpretive and Critical Research Action TheoryA Case Study of Action TheoryAction ResearchAction ScienceSummary 7. Social Action, Administrative Research, and Literary Interpretation: The Logic of Interpretation and Critique Literary InterpretationPositions in InterpretationThe Relevance of the Author or ActorMeaning and SignificanceThe Canons of InterpretationCriteria for ValidationSummary: A Melding of Genres 8. Taking Language Seriously: Some Postmodern Themes The Loss of Grand NarrativesKnowledge and the Linguistic Basis of Local NarrativesPoststructuralismKnowledge as ConversationThe Local Narratives of Public AdministrationImplications 9. Language, Discourse, and Rationality: The Foundations of a Narrative Theory of Knowledge References Index
£48.00
Undena Publications,U.S. The Development of the Anomalous Syriac Verb
Book SynopsisA verb study of the ancient Syriac language.
£10.24
Undena Publications,U.S. The Sequential Forms in Late Egyptian and
Book SynopsisThis study presents the analysis of a common feature in Late Egyptian and Biblical Hebrew verbal systems, namely the existence of sequential forms, used to coordinate two sentences sharing the same time reference.
£13.98
Undena Publications,U.S. Aphasic Evidence for Lexical and Phonological
Book SynopsisLinguistic phenomena as manifested in the case of a Hebrew-speaking aphasic are discussed in this monograph. Attention is paid to the implications for linguistic research in general, and for Semitic in particular.
£9.38
Undena Publications,U.S. Morphophonemics of the Verb in Rendille Gender
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the morphology and morphophonemics of the verb in Rendille, a language of north-eastern Kenya.
£15.13
Undena Publications,U.S. Central Somali
Book SynopsisThis study presents an outline of the Central Somali spoken in the Bay region of southern Somalia, including the city of Isha Baydhaba (Iscia Baidoa).
£13.96
Undena Publications,U.S. The Development of the Participle in Biblical
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£12.40
Undena Publications,U.S. Bibliographic Bulletin
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£11.14
Undena Publications,U.S. Markedness Relations in the Pronunciation of the
Book SynopsisAnalysis of the pronunciation of the prefixed particles in Hebrew formal and semi-formal speech shows that deviations from the norms are of significance only in the minority of the forms, espe cially in the rare environments.
£13.89
Undena Publications,U.S. Theoretical Implications of Consonant Sequence
Book SynopsisSeven constraints on consonant sequences in Israeli Hebrew, which are the modern reflexes of older Semitic constraints, are discussed in this essay.
£9.35
Undena Publications,U.S. The Sam Languages
Book SynopsisThis study reconstructs aspects of the history of the Sam languages, which are spoken in the Eastern African countries of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia.
£16.00
Undena Publications,U.S. Bibliographical Bulletin
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£12.16
Undena Publications,U.S. Grammatical Categories of Verb Stems in Chadic
Book SynopsisThis study rejects various theories on the nature and history of the Chadic verbal system which claimed that Proto-Chadic had a fundamental binary distinction of aspect and a characteristically marked Imperfective verb stem. This study presents comparative evidence from 10 languages of the Biu- Mandara branch of Chadic to support its contention.
£12.64
Undena Publications,U.S. The IIwy Verbs and the Vowel System of ProtoWest
Book SynopsisA study of the West Semitic language; comparative data from Ethiopic and Hebrew is examined and found to be in broad agreement with the Arabic conclusions.
£9.75
Undena Publications,U.S. Love through Death in Modern Hebrew
Book SynopsisInvestigating the verb la-mut 'to die' in Hebrew, one observes that, depending on the context, it has a secondary meaning ranging from 'want' to ' love'. It will be argued here that the different readings of the verb stem from a regularity in Hebrew according to which some verbs may change their interpretation in a predictable way.
£8.47
Undena Publications,U.S. The Syntax of Indicator Particles in Somali
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£9.45
Undena Publications,U.S. Paradigm Coherence
Book SynopsisData from Modern Hebrew support the principle of paradigm coherence and the claim that inflection tends to minimize allomorphy while derivation preserves it. It is shown, however, that analogical change is a function of the degree of automaticity of the morphological and syntactic relationships concerned
£11.21
Undena Publications,U.S. Phonological Channels in Chaha The tConverb in
Book SynopsisChala (Cala) is a Gur language of Ghana. This is an attempt to formulate rules for the use of consonants in Chala.
£8.70
Undena Publications,U.S. Reference to Quantification in the City Dialect
Book SynopsisThis is a sociolinguistic analysis of some very common ways in the dialect spoken in Gaza to refer to concepts of time and space on one hand, and other types of quantification on the other.
£8.10
Undena Publications,U.S. Systematic vs Autonomous Phonemics and the Hebrew
Book SynopsisA study of Tiberian Hebrew using phonemic analysis.
£8.47
Undena Publications,U.S. On the Role of Perceptual Clues in Hebrew
Book SynopsisRelativization in Modern Israeli Hebrew is discussed from a number of perspectives.
£999.99
Undena Publications,U.S. Bibliographical Bulletin Afroasiatic Linguistics
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£16.27
Undena Publications,U.S. The Chadic Verbal System and its Afroasiatic
Book SynopsisA study of the Chadic family of Afro-Aasiatic languages spoken in Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.
£999.99
Undena Publications,U.S. Schwa Insertion in Berber
Book SynopsisAn analysis of verb stems in the Berber language.
£8.37
Undena Publications,U.S. Word Formation Strategies in the Hebrew Verb
Book SynopsisThis study suggests a hierarchy for the familiar syntactic and semantic factors determining realization of Hebrew verbs in the particular conjugations.
£11.20
Undena Publications,U.S. On the Complexity of Some Types of Complex
Book SynopsisThe complexity of some sentence types in Urban Moroccan Arabic is studied here and compared with some other dialects of Arabic.
£7.87
Undena Publications,U.S. Semantic Parameters in Angas Kinship Terminology
Book SynopsisA study of the system of kinship terminology of the Angas langauge of Plateau State in Nigeria
£9.08
Undena Publications,U.S. The Hausa Aspect System
Book SynopsisA study of constructions in the modern Hausa language, providing detailed historical explanations of their origin and development. The weork starts with morphological forms and syntactic patterns reconstructed for Proto-Hausa, and is supported by reliable comparative data from other Chadic languages.
£12.99
Undena Publications,U.S. Extrinsic Ordering in Classical Arabic
Book SynopsisExtrinsic ordering is when the order of application of two rules must be specifically indicated and does not follow from a general principle. In Arabic the survival of a long vowel in a syllable made closed by a contraction may be a case of such ordering.
£11.14
The University of Michigan Press The Lue Language
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£999.99
Maupin House Publishing Caughtya Grammar with a Giggle for Middle School
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£23.70
Gallaudet University Press The Signed English Schoolbook
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£999.99
Gallaudet University Press American Sign Language Green Books A Students
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£999.99
Center for the Study of Language and Information The Semantics of Destructive Lisp 5 Center for
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The basic theory of memory structures; 3. Equivalence relations; 4. A plethora of simple examples; 5. The effectiveness theorems; 6. Fragments of lisp; 7. Derivations and transformations; 8. The Robson marking algorithm and applications; 9. Programs as data and the eval function; 10. Editing data efficiently; 11. Conclusions; Bibliography.
£999.99
Center for the Study of Language and Information A Manual of Intensional Logic
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Center for the Study of Language and Information Short Introduction to Modal Logic
Book SynopsisThis text presents semantic and syntactic features of modal logic and illustrates them by analyses of three modal systems S5, S4 and T. The book concentrates on the logical aspects of the subject and provides philosophical motivations to show the point of the formal work.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Classical propositional logic; 2. Classical monadic predicate logic; 3. The system S5; 4. System T; 5. System S4; 6. Hilbert-type axiomatizations; Exercises.
£999.99
