Brown Cecil H (69 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Hardcover with dust jacket, from a private collection. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Top edge of text block has some light spotting. Was kept in a house of a smoker so I assume there is an odor to the book (I don't have a good sense of smell so it seems quite mild to me but opinions may vary, of course). Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. This book has some underline, writing but still in good condition in general, no lost page, no tear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 95-118 pages with tables and cited references. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. current Anthropology Volume 35 Number 1 complete issue. First edition. Lexical acculturation has received moderate attention through the years, but largely from the perspective of acculturative studies of individual languages, or from that of the incorporation of loans from one specific language into another. A few authors have attempted comparative studies of patterns across regional areas or several languages, but rarely on the scale represented by Brown's study. In this volume, he looks at 77 concepts and items of acculturation from European sources in 292 Native American languages, covering the whole of the New World. But this work is more than a catalog of these items in the native languages: it is also a thorough discussion and analysis of the apparent processes and principles by which such transfers take place. Brown hopes that, through such massive comparisons and analyses, the basic principles and processes of linguistic acculturation will become better understood and thereby take on some predictive value in specific situations. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, light edge wear else very good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, tiny wear at base of spine, otherwise a Near Fine copy without dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No dust wrapper.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 83, pp. 13-27,Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last page in facsimile, else VG.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 8, No 3, pp. 596-615, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last page in facsimile, else VG.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 9, No 1, pp. 97-112, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 197-214 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (10" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Ethnology Volume XXIV Number 3 complete issue. First edition. Several recent studies describe polysemous relationships that occur widely in languages. For example, approximately two-thirds of the languages of the world use a single term to designate both wood and tree (Witkowski, Brown, and Chase 1981), and almost one-half merge eye and face under a single term (Brown and Witkowski 1983). This paper documents occurrences of widespread polysemy involving terms for parts of human limbs.1 For instance, many geographically and genetically unrelated languages use a single term to denote and (hand/arm polysemy) and many equate and (foot/leg polysemy). Polysemy plays an important role in lexical change. The development of polysemy is a common means whereby languages encode new referents or alter the encoding of existing ones (Brown and Witkowski 1983). Typically this involves expanding a word for one referent to another when both referents bear a common relation to one another (cf. Casagrande and Hale 1967; Lyons 1963, 1977). For example, hand is related to arm, and foot to leg, through physical connection or spatial contiguity. These limb parts are also components of the upper and lower limb respectively. In addition to these meaning relations, others such as class inclusion and likeness/resemblance often mediate polysemy development (Brown 1979a; Brown and Witkowski 1983). Development of polysemy typically involves extending a term for a high salience referent to one of low salience (Brown and Witkowski 1983). Referents may be high in salience for humans due to intrinsic properties that make them perceptually very distinct (Berlin, Boster, and O'Neill 1981; Hunn 1977) or because they are culturally very important (Witkowski and Brown 1983) or because of both of these factors. Labels associated with high salience referents tend strongly to be in languages; i.e., they are more frequent in use, simpler in form, and acquired earlier by children learning language than marked labels associated with low salience referents (Greenberg 1966, 1975). Evidence presented here indicates that hand and foot are regularly of high salience for humans compared to arm and leg respectively. Similarly, terms for the former are typically unmarked in languages compared to terms for the latter. Hence, polysemy development has commonly involved expansion of terms to arm and terms to leg rather than the reverse direction. The existence?and consequent cultural importance?of extensive wearing apparel in a society negatively influences the occurrence of limb polysemy. The presence of elaborate tailored clothing covering the limbs greatly increases the distinctiveness of limb parts and renders more likely their labeling by separate terms. Condition: Light edge wear with bumped corners, head page ends soiled else very good. …

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 81, pp. 791-817, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, last pg in facsimile, else VG.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 79, No 2, pp. 317-342, Extracted from orig vol, then Recased in orig journal covers, else VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1984. 1st edition. Xviii + [306] pp. Printed green cloth, sharp corners, tight binding as in unused. Price penciled inside back cover. Pages clean, bright, white, and unmarked.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. An ex-library copy in original paper covers. The usual ex-libris markings, and rubbing to the covers. The binding is sound (with no spine creasing), and the text is clean/unmarked. Book.

306pp. 8vo Green cloth. Fine/no dj.

Condition: gut. 136 S., 23 cm, Aufkleber, Bibliotheksexemplar, Einband leicht berieben. Sprache: Englisch.

brossura. Condition: Good. 0. In 8, br. ed. con risvolto, pp. 133, introduzione di Giorgio De Rossi; volume in buono stato.Luogo di pubblicazione RomaEditore ArmandoAnno pubblicazione 1978Collana Metodologia delle scienze e del linguaggio-15Materia/Argomento Filosofia, Linguistica ***Books dated over 70 years old are not exportable, please do not order.***. Book.…

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1999. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 259pp. Gilt lettering, tables, map, appendices, bibliography, indices. Edited by William Bright. Publisher series: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 20. (Indians of N.A., Language, Lexicography).

Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. Very good/no DJ.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. 259 pages. part of the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. 1/4 inch bump to top edge of front cover of book; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 ".

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Linguistic and Genetic (mtDNA) Connections between Native Peoples of Alaska and California: Ancient Mariners of the Middle Holocene traces the linguistic and biological connections between contemporary Aleut people of southwest Alaska and historic Utian people of central California. During the Middle Holocene Period, Aleut and Utian languages diverged from their common parent language, Proto-Aleut-Utian (PAU), spoken by people who resided on or near Kodiak Island in coastal southwest Alaska. Around the time of divergence, Utians departed the PAU homeland, migrating by watercraft along the eastern Pacific coast to the San Francisco Bay Area. The affiliation between Aleut and Utian languages is strongly supported by comparative linguistics and by the genetic link (mtDNA) of groups speaking these languages. On their migration, Utians encountered coastal groups speaking languages different from their own. Through these prolonged and intimate interactions, words were borrowed from Utian into the languages of these native coastal communities. Other significant findings explored in this book are the lack of compelling evidence for the kinship of Eskimo and Aleut peoples, despite scholarship's long-term acceptance of this proposal, and the discovery of language-structure features shared by Yeniseian and Na Dene, indicating an historical connection for these circumarctic languages.…

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