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Published by Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1979
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Hardbound. Condition: Good. Quarto, red cloth with black lettering, wear at the base of the spine, bookplate on the free frot endpaper, xx, 140 pp., notes, bibliography, library pocket on the rear pastedown endpaper.
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Published by Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979
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More imagesLinguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 1975)
James A. Matisoff, Paul K. Benedict; F.K. Lehman and Nicholas Bodman - Editorial Committee
Published by University of California - Department of Linguisitcs, Berkeley, California, 1975
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Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjjacket. Stated Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 1975). Tight softcover in good condition. 8vo. 120pp. Orangy yellow wrappers with black lettering & map on the front wrapper. The staple bound backstrip has bright yellow tape over the staples. The previous owner wrote name & Apri…l '76 date neatly in ink on top edge of first (editorial list) page. This book is otherwise clean & very tight. The wrappers have a little light soiling, wear, & edgewear. The front wrapper has a light vertical crease and the back wrapper has a light short crease close to both corners The applied yellow tape has a small tear. There is a typed note from the publisher that two pages are reversed in order. The leaves are in very good condition with no markings - some have bumped corners. Ships within 24 hours. Scans available upon request.
Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish (Paperback or Softback)
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Published by UC, Berkeley, 1996
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Published by UC, Berkeley, 1995
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Published by UC, Berkeley, 1996
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Paperback. Condition: New. In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentat…ion. The author analyzes the many kinds of Yiddish "psycho-ostensives"-ranging from blessings and thanks to lamentations and curses. To a person who mentions something horrible you can say: Zalts dir in di oygn, fefer dir in noz! ("Salt into your eyes, and pepper into your nose!"). Or to a child you might tenderly murmur: A gezúnt dir in yeder éyverl! ("A health to all your little body-parts!"). The author illustrates how these formulas can be used to fulfill social conventions, to keep away evil, to show off-or even to deceive the listener. Comments [1999] "I have known and profited from this book for many years, and its interest for linguistics and Yiddish studies has grown steadily. The book will have three audiences: specialists in Yiddish; linguists, psychologists, and anthropologists who are interested in the emotional side of language; and general linguists familiar with Matisoff's outstanding contributions, both witty and insightful, in other linguistic fields." -William Labov, University of Pennsylvania "Matisoff's book was pathbreaking, innovative, and crucially important when it was first published and remains so today. It is as relevant as it was then, if not more so. Matisoff is a consummate scholar and also an excellent writer: clear and weighty but also whimsical and witty." -Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University.
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Published by Department of Linguistics, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1988
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Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1999
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. ii, 247p. Contents: "Phonetique historique et eciture du chinois," "The common origin of diminutives in southern Chinese dialects and Southeast Asian languages," "On the languages of the Jingpo nationality," "On the Tibeto-Burman languages of the eastern Himalayan area in China," "A brief compar…ison of register tone in Central Tibetan and Kham Tibetan," "The Old Tibetan terminative -su," "Phonological typology of northeast India," "Tense and aspect in Kuki-Chin," "In defense of Kamarupan," "Aspect and tense in the Bisu language," and "Three Munda scripts.".
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 2002
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 254p, figures. Contents: "The sounds and tones of five Tibetan languages of the Himalayan region," "Notes on the pronunciation of an eastern variety of Burmese," "Proto-Lolo-Burmese velar clusters and the origin of Lisu palatal sibilants," "Tone and stem2-formation in Hakha Lai," "Some notes on…Maraa," "Wedge issues," "Speech reporting strategies in Kinnauri narratives," "Seke phonology: a comparative study of three Seke dialiects," and "Vowel tenseness and assimilation in Yi: a feature geometry study.".
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 2001
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: As New. 274 pages. Contents: "Dulong texts: seven fully analyzed narrative and procedural texts," "Tone correspondences among the Bodo languages," "The pitch-accent system of Niuwozi Prinmi," "Chokri (Phek dialect): phonetics and phonology," "Prenasalization and preglottaization in Dasi Chine, with paralle…l exapmles from Mro and Mara," "Function of naak/na in Daai Chin with examples fromother Chin languages," "The syntax of deixis in Lai," "The double demonstratives of Chantyal," "Negation in Qiang grammar," "Remarks on the vowel system of old Burmese," and "A typology of verb agreement in Burushaski.".
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1999
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 203p, map. Contents: "Laghuu or Xa Pho, a new language of the Yi group," "Greetings among Naxi and Kham Tibetans on Yunnan's high plateau," "An instrumental analysis of Sharchhop obstruents," "What did Qiangic peoples call the twelve months?" "The Amdo dialect of Labrang," "The Manipuris in the…Barak Valley: a case study of language maintenance," "A comparison between Khasi and Manipuri word order," "Internal relative clauses in Tenyidie (Angami)," "The category of causative verbs in Tibeto-Burman languages.".
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1998
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 236 pages. Contents: "The first person pronoun in Archaic Chinese, with a note on duplex characters," "The impersonal construction in Manipuri (Meithei)", "Phom phonology and word list," "Wancho phonology and word list," "The /ka-/and 'kra-/ prefixes in Thai," "Ho Ne (She) in Hmongic," "Austrone…sian roots and Sino-Tibetan: some lexical correspondences.".
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1998
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. vi, 248p. Crease in rear cover, o/w like new. Contents: "The middle voice in Lai," "Tsuu kaa tii hla?: deixis, demonstratives and discourse particles in Lai Chin," "The morphosyntax of transitivization in Lai (Haka Chin," "A willy-nilly look at Lai ideophones," "Lai psyco-collocaton," and "Tiddi…m Chin tones in historical perspective.".
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1997
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. vi, 227, ills. Contents: "In memorian: Paul K. Benedict," "The sound system of Lai," "Glottal stop and glottalization in Lai," "Lai verb lists," "Verbal alternations in Lai," "Tense and aspect in Lai Chin." With a cumulative index for Vols. 1-20.
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1997
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. xxviii, 242p. Contents: "The Life and Works of Fu Maoji," and "A descriptive grammar of Lolo" by Fu Maoiji.
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1994
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 180 page. Contents: "The verbal agreement system of four Kham languages," "Parallel grammaticalizations in Tibeto-Burman languages," "Grammaticalization of verbs in Classical and Modern Newari," "Grammaticalized verbs in Hayu," "A semanti study of deictic auxiliaries in Burmies, "Watch out for n…umber ONE: Jingpho nai "I" and lanai 'one'," "Kiranti linking /?/," et.al.
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1995
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: As New. 181 pages. Contents: "Grammaticalisation of extent in Mran-Ni," "The variation of free morphemes in compound words in Jinghpo," "Conditions for tonogenesis and tone split in Tibetan dialects," "The phonological systems of three Pwo Karen dialects," "Sino-Tibetan kin term *-1 suffix," "Verbal suffix…es in Mising," "The linguistic situation in Manipur," "A comparative study of phonological correspondences in Rgjal Rong and Written Tibetan cognates," and "On the original relationship between Chinese and Kam-Tai.".
Published by Department of Linguistics University of California, Berkeley, 1991
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 172 pages. Contents: "On the word in Angami Naga," "Nominalization, relativization, and attribution in Lotha, Angami, and Burmese," Inverse and pseudo-traverse prefixes in Kiranti languages: evidence from Behare, Athpartya, and Dungmali," "The rhetorical use of the Tibetan ergative," "Pathways o…f the development of the ergative in Central Tibetan," "The Tibetan transcriptions of Tangut ideograms," "Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments?" "A note on PST-level morphosyntax," "Genital flipflop: a Chinese note," and "Sino-Tibetan "Vulva.".
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Published by University of California / CSU, 1987
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Fall 1987 issue in excellent, unmarked condition (slight handling). 180 pages. [10oz]. Book.
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More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1979
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. used Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Very Good in Good DJ, with 4 inch tear at top front of DJ and evidence of shelf wear on corners. Slight tropical speckling to Page Edges, otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or stains. Bibliography note:…Bibliography: p. 134-140. Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches. Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces Don¿t be put off by the subtitle of this incredibly witty, informative, and entertaining analysis of the linguistic subtleties of Yiddish. In using the term "psycho-ostensive,¿ the author refers to the heavy emotional baggage that Yiddish speakers carry around with them: their language is full of linguistic subtexts that mask, obfuscate, and hide the true feelings in the heart of the speaker.¿Arnold Ages, Jewish Tribune. "It may be said of Matisoff¿s treatise that it shows how Yiddish, through its linguistic delicacies, offered its speakers and listeners valuable therapeutic tools to cope with the perplexing world they encountered. Exploring that wolrd with Matisoff is a recreation, a joy, and "a gan Eden.¿ That¿s Hebrew and Yiddish for paradise.¿Arnold Ages, Jewish TribunE. In this delightful book, the author enumerates and classifies the formulas Yiddish speakers use to express their emotions. It is a rarity among scholarly books, for it brings joy while it teaches; it makes us smile, sometimes roar with laughter, while it develops the most rigorous linguistic argumentation. The author analyzes the many kinds of Yiddish "psycho-ostensives"¿ranging from blessings and thanks to lamentations and curses. To a person who mentions something horrible you can say: Zalts dir in di oygn, fefer dir in noz! ("Salt into your eyes, and pepper into your nose!"). Or to a child you might tenderly murmur: A gezúnt dir in yeder éyverl! ("A health to all your little body-parts!"). The author illustrates how these formulas can be used to fulfill social conventions, to keep away evil, to show off¿or even to deceive the listener.
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Published by Stanford University Press 2000, 2000
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