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From the back cover:

A Student's Grammar of the English Language is a shorter and revised version of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, the widely acclaimed definitive grammar of modern English on which the authors worked in collaboration with Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik.

The structure of the parent book has been preserved so that reference to it can easily be made, but this version takes particular account of the needs of students who require depth of treatment and also clear presentation with detailed exemplification. A Student's Grammar of the English Language draws on the most recent research, including new findings not only in grammar but also in the neighbouring fields of semantics, pragmatics, and text linguistics. Discourse features are dealt with throughout, as well as being the theme of a major chapter entitled: 'From Sentence to Text."

The authors are careful to point out those features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British from American English.

A Student's Grammar of the English Language will be a standard work and an indispensable text book for all those who need an advanced and authoritative description of contemporary English.

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I donate all money made from these book sales to local non-profits (SE Pennsylvania) that help people facing a wide range of crises. 


Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

English

A Student's Grammar of the English Language

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

How to Express 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases!

It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication!

Do you want to speak simple Thai but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting Thailand for a short time and want a Thai phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this Thai phrasebook is for you--it's the easiest and quickest way to learn Thai. It's tiny 0.4 x 4.1 x 5.9 inches size makes it incredibly convenient to travel with but without losing the essential content for communication.

The idea of Instant Thai is simple--learn 100 words and phrases and say 1,000 things. The trick is knowing which 100 words to learn, but the authors Stuart Robson and Prateep Changchit have solved the problem, choosing only those words you'll hear again and again. Even with a vocabulary this small, you'll be surprised how quickly and fluently you too can communicate in the Thai language. It also has an English-Thai wordlist, arranged alphabetically. At the end of the book are useful appendices for telling the time, kinship terms, some Thai proverbs, and emergency expressions. Here's a sample of what you'll be able to do with this Thai phrasebook:
 * Meet people.
 * Go shopping.
 * Ask directions.
 * Ride the subway.
 * Order food and drinks.
 * And much more.

Instant Thai

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#Greek #language #dictionary #travel #Berlitz #translations #linguistics

Soon, "It's Greek to me" will have new meaning. This phrase book is an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, color-coded guide to the Greek language. Greek letters and their English equivalent are represented, allowing you to communicate with confidence and travel with ease! The Berlitz phrase book is the unparalleled market leader in its category.

Greek Phrase Book

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#hardcover #aphorisms #if #language #anthology #humor #quotes #linguistics #wordplay #wit

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

An Anthology of Aphorisms That Begin with the Word IF





Perfect for linguaphiles and lovers of quotes, Ifferisms is a lively compendium of wit, wisdom, and wordplay from Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like, Viva La Repartee, and Oxymoronica. A collection of aphorisms--pithy observations that communicate some kind of truth about the human experience--Ifferisms contains those that begin with "if." From "If life hands you lemons, make lemonade" to "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," the sayings in Ifferisms demonstrate how hypothetical thinking helps people contemplate their lives.

Ifferisms

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North Carolina

A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history. The compilation of the OED began in 1857, it was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

The Professor and the Madman

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Some water (coffee?) damage to the bottom but in great shape. #hardcover #alphabetversusthegoddess #malewords #femaleimages #linguistics #etymology #history #language #leonardshlain 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Indiana

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

#hardcover #nonfiction #humor #writing #language #English #linguistics

Iowa

Or, the Joy of Text

Alphabetter Juice

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#hardcover #educational #linguistics #Englishlanguage #Englishlanguagedevelopmemt #OldEnglish #GermanicEnglish #developmentofEnglish

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Kansas

The English language is now accepted as the global lingua franca of the modern age. But how did it evolve? How did a language spoken originally be a few thousand Anglo-Saxons become one used by over a quarter of the human race? The Stories of English is a groundbreaking and entertaining history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and linguist. Crystal turns the history of English on its head and provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies-in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the world. Whatever their regional, social, or ethnic background, each group has a story worth telling, whether it is in Scotland or Canada, South Africa or the United States. Interwoven within this central chronological story are accounts of uses of dialect around the world and examples taken from current popular culture as well as literary classics. As Newsday wrote, "Crystal is bold, thoughtful, and often very funny.... His comparisons and allusions are effortless, and he's as up on Ali G and Middle Earth as he is on Anglo-Saxon and Middle English".

The Stories of English

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Whether you need extra books to help you with studying Italian, need a crash course for your upcoming trip or want to brush up on your knowledge, these 2 books will be of help. Both books in very good condition.  #Italian #language  #reference #learningaid #learning #education #linguistics #translating

Italian Language Learning Books

The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World





For lovers of language and fans of Blink and Freakonomics, New York Times bestselling author James Geary offers this fascinating look at metaphors and their influence in every aspect of our lives, from art to medicine, psychology to the stock market.

From President Obama's political rhetoric to the bursting of the housing bubble, from conversations to commercials, James Geary shows that every aspect of our day-to-day experience is molded by metaphor. Geary takes readers from Aristotle's investigation of metaphor right up to the latest neuroscientific insights into how metaphor works in the brain. Romeo's exclamation "It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!" may be one of the most well-known metaphors in literature, but metaphor is more than a device of love-struck poets. As Geary demonstrates, metaphor has leaped off the page and landed with a mighty splash right in the middle of the stream of consciousness.

Witty, persuasive, and original, I Is an Other explores metaphor's effects on financial decision making, effective advertising, leadership, learning, and more.





I Is an Other

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Some pages have the practice exercises filled in, however your exercises can be written on paper. #arabic #language #linguistics #foreignlanguage #DVDs #al-kitaab #alifbaa #culture

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds

Newly revised and packaged with two DVDs containing both audio and video exercises, Alif Baa with DVD: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, is the first part of the Al-Kitaab program. It teaches learners to recognize and produce both letters and sounds accurately through a variety of exercises designed to develop listening, reading, and writing skills. In addition, it introduces about 150 basic vocabulary words in authentic contexts, and it includes video footage of an Arabic calligrapher, a large collection of street signs, social greetings, capsules on Arab culture, and an English-Arabic glossary.

Alif Baa with DVDs

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#hardcover #internet #internetculture #language #linguistics #languageandculture #nytbestseller 

Massachusetts

Understanding How Language Is Changing

THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.

Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.

Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time.

Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer 'LOL' or 'lol', why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

'McCulloch is such a disarming writer - lucid, friendly, unequivocally excited about her subject - that I began to marvel at the flexibility of the online language she describes, with its numerous shades of subtlety.' New York Times

Because Internet

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contains a boatload of things you didnt know about the English language

Word Nerd

#hardcover #dictionary #writingtools #vocabulary #linguistics #english #choosetherightword

Book is in like new condition, no flaws except a little bump on the lower right of the front cover ( see photo ).

"This unique and concise compendium presents the most confused and misused words in the language today - words misused by careless speakers and writers everywhere. It defines, discerns, and distinguishes the finer points of sense and meaning."

Minnesota

The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

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#paperback #nonfiction #animals #pets #dog #psychology #memoir #science #nature #linguistics 

Utah

Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words

Shares the story of a Border Collie who recognized an unprecedented number of human words to explore her role in advancing understandings about animal intelligence, recounting how she also demonstrated an ability to use deductive reasoning and imitation.

Chaser

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#paperback #nonfiction #theskinthatwespeak #education #culture #language #linguistics

California

Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

A collection that gets to the heart of the relationship between language and power in the classroom.

The Skin That We Speak

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#hardcover #language #nonfiction #linguistics The book has underlined passages here and there.

Texas

Understanding the New Rules of Language

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

#hardcover #ex-lib #nonfiction #language #linguistics #etymology #placenames 

Suppose you are a
CITY.
Yes, you, looking at this book.
Who named you
SANTA FE,
or
PORTLAND,
or
TOMBSTONE,
or
whatever your name is?
This book invites you to a big party with lots and lots of relatives, near and far, from all over tha nation.
These relatives will be glad to meet YOU!

New York Is English, Chattanooga Is Creek

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Alaska

The Silent Language 

#baseball #chatter #linguistics #sports #interviews

How to Talk Baseball hits a home run with fans who enjoy playing, watching, and talking our national game. The fascinating profiles of baseball's most famous stars will delight all aficionados, and the hilarious terms defined here will add pepper to anyone's game-watching.Beginning with a superlative line-up of people who have enriched America's favorite pastime, the first part of the book draws lively portraits of baseball's superstars and super characters, including Pete Rose, Dizzy Dean, Dennis Eckersley, Red Barber, Red Smith, Yogi Berra (It ain't over till it's over), and Casey Stengel. Find out who was the first to say Can he hit, hit with power, run, throw and field?, now the five dimensions of measuring a baseball player; How sweet it is; and Can't anybody here play this game? How to Talk Baseball's illustrated lexicon tells the origin and meaning of baseball's unique language--seventh-inning stretches, southpaws, spitballs, ohfers, hit-and-runs, foot in the bucket, beanballs, circus catches, Baltimore chops--terms indigenous to baseball, brought together in a comprehensive glossary. You'll learn whether a player is a bad-ball hitter, a bench jockey, a bonus baby or a clubhouse lawyer, and how to tell the difference. Even a novice fan can sound like a network sportscaster, describing how ducks on the pond are waiting for their MVP to dial 8 to a shutout. How to Talk Baseball is a fun read and will help readers warm up their vocal cords and get ready to talk their best game.

How to Talk Baseball

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Strictly Speaking 

#hardcover #language #alphabetjuice  #english #letters #words #phonemes #linguistics 

The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof - Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences - With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

From sources as venerable as the OED and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com, and especially from the author's own wide-ranging experience, this book derives an organic take on language that is unlike any other.

Alphabet Juice

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#hardcover #phrases #language #linguistics #culture #english

Oregon

The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day

Mad hatter . . . pie in the sky . . . egg on your face. We use these phrases every day, yet how many of us know what they really mean or where they came from? From bringing home the bacon to leaving no stone unturned, the English language is peppered with hundreds of common idioms borrowed from ancient traditions and civilizations throughout the world. In Red Herrings and White Elephants, Albert Jack has uncovered the amazing and sometimes downright bizarre stories behind many of our most familiar and eccentric modes of expression: If you happen to be a bootlegger, your profession recalls the Wild West outlaws who sold illegal alcohol by concealing slender bottles of whiskey in their boots. If you're on cloud nine, you owe a nod to the American Weather Bureau's classification of clouds, the ninth topping out all others at a mountainous 40,000 feet. If you opt for the hair of the dog the morning after, you're following the advice of medieval English doctors, who recommended rubbing the hair of a dog into the wound left by the animal's bite. A delightful compendium of anecdotes on everything from minding your p's and q's to pulling out all the stops, Red Herrings and White Elephants is an essential handbook for language-lovers of all ages.

Red Herrings and White Elephants

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Discover the Surprising Etymology of Everyday Words

This book is awesome awful!

Did you know that "awful" first originated as a compliment? How about the fact that it was perfectly fine for someone to defecate in their living room? Or that at one time a bully was actually a sweetheart?

You may think that these things sound outlandish, but hundreds of years ago, the words "awful," "defecate," and "bully" meant something entirely different than what we know today. The Unexpected Evolution of Language reveals the origins of 208 everyday terms and the interesting stories behind their shift in meaning.
Arranged in alphabetical order, you will enjoy uncovering the backstories to terms like:

 * Awful - worthy of respect or fear; inspiring awe
 * Bimbo - slang for a stupid, inconsequential man
 * Defecate - to purify; cleanse
 * Invest - to clothe; to dress
 * Nice - foolish; stupid
 * Relay - hunting term meaning fresh pack of hounds


From "aftermath" and "sophisticated" to "empty" and "prestige," you will aboslutely love seeing just what kind of damage time has done to the English language.

Sidney Greenbaum, Randolph Quirk

A Student's Grammar of the English Language

Stuart Robson; Prateep Changchit

Instant Thai

Berlitz Editors (Editor); Berlitz Publishing Staff

Greek Phrase Book

Mardy Grothe

Ifferisms

Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman

Leonard Shlain

The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

Roy Blount

Alphabetter Juice

David Crystal

The Stories of English

Margarita Madrigal; Giuseppina Salvadori; Passport Books

Italian Language Learning Books

James Geary

I Is an Other

Kristen Brustad; Mahmoud Al-Batal; Abbas Al-Tonsi

Alif Baa with DVDs

Gretchen McCulloch

Because Internet

Michael Powell

Word Nerd

Eugene Ehrlich

The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate

John W. Pilley; Hilary Hinzmann; John W. Pilley

Chaser

Lisa Delpit (Editor); Joanne Kilgour Dowdy (Editor)

The Skin That We Speak

Gretchen McCulloch

Because Internet

Chris Raschka (Illustrator)

New York Is English, Chattanooga Is Creek

Edward T Hall

The Silent Language

Mike Whiteford

How to Talk Baseball

Edwin Newman

Strictly Speaking

Roy Blount

Alphabet Juice

Albert Jack

Red Herrings and White Elephants

Justin Cord Hayes

The Unexpected Evolution of Language