Matisoff James (139 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Fair.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Good. some shelfwear but still NICE! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Article topics include : Shakuhachi Zen: The Fukeshu and Komuso; Kintosho: Zeami's song of exile; ther organized peasant: The Wakamonugumi in the Edo in the Edo Period; commentary on "World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era 1600-1867" by Donald Keene; aims and achievements of the Meirokusha: fact and fiction; the glory that was Azuchi; and more. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Journal.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft 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 & April '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.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Blessings, Curses, Hopes, and Fears: Psycho-Ostensive Expressions in Yiddish. Book.

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 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. 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.…

Condition: New.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 197pp octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 181pp octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 149pp octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.

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

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 207 pages. Articles: "On the Place of Lepcha in Sino-Tibetan: A Lexical Comparison," "Notes on Anong, a New Language," "U," and "The Verbval Morphology of Dumi Rai Simplicia.".

Soft 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 comparison 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.".…

Soft 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.".…

Soft 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 parallel 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.".…

Soft 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.".…

Soft 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," "Austronesian roots and Sino-Tibetan: some lexical correspondences.".…

Soft 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 "Tiddim Chin tones in historical perspective.".…

Soft 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. xxviii, 242p. Contents: "The Life and Works of Fu Maoji," and "A descriptive grammar of Lolo" by Fu Maoiji.

Soft 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 number ONE: Jingpho nai "I" and lanai 'one'," "Kiranti linking /?/," et.al.…

Soft 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 suffixes 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.".…

Soft 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 of 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.".…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condition: new.