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Reading the OED : One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Ammon Shea
Paperback - $17.40
With sharp wit, sheer delight, and a keen eye, Shea shares his year inside the "Oxford English Dictionary," delivering an eye-crossing account of reading every word, and revealing the most obscure, hilarious gems he discovers along the way.
The Illustrated American Tourist Guide to English English Second Edition
J. Eric Smithburn
Paperback - $19.90
Lorry or truck? Potato chips or crisps? Autumn or fall? From the chemist to the chippy, whether you're at sixes and sevens, chuffed to bits or over the moon, this book may surprise anyone who thinks that the same language is spoken in the United States...
Deutsches Wortfamilienwarterbuch : Analyse Der Wortfamilienstrukturen Der Deutschen Gegenwartssprache, Zugleich Grundlegung Einer Zuka1/4nftigen Strukt
Jochen Splett
Hardcover - $7,739.40
This dictionary of present-day German comprises some 11,000 pages and 80,000 headwords and is the first comprehensive research-based dictionary of German word families. It orders the vocabulary by stem-morphemes, presents all the derivations with their...
Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics
Philip Strazny
Hardcover - $171.30
Historical and comparative linguistics has been an important scholarly discipline for 200 years, and yet this is the first dictionary ever to be devoted to it. With nearly 2,400 entries, "Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics" covers every...
A Handbook of Lexicography : The Theory and Practice of Dictionary-Making
Bo Svensen
Paperback - $80.70
This book provides a systematic survey of the theory and methods of dictionary-making (including the linguistic background): what types of dictionary there are, how different kinds of information are dealt with when compiling dictionaries, how this information...
Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995
Julius E. Thompson
Paperback - $64.50
In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a company devoted to publishing, distributing and promoting the works of black poets and writers. In so doing, he became a major player in the civil rights movement. Hundreds of black writers were...
European Languages II : Russian
M. V. Trofimov
Hardcover - $556.00
Daniel Jones (1881-1967) played a significant role in the emergence of phonetics as a fully developed academic discipline in the first half of the twentieth century. Jones's pioneering works are made easily accessible to scholars once again.