A Dictionary of Mangareva (or Gambier Islands) by Edward Tregear
$55.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Reading Level: good
Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar by Robert D King
$14.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: Good
Essai en vue d'un Dictionnaire et d'une Grammaire selon le dialecte en usage aux Marquises 1799 by William Pascoe Crook
$25.00 NZD
Category: Maori & Pacific | Reading Level: very good
Résumé sur la 4ème de couv. : " Un dictionnaire qui retourne aux sources, en rédigeant leur manuscrit en 1799 dans les faubourgs de Londres, Samuel Greatheed, l'un des directeurs de la L.M.S., William P. Crook, qui venait de vivre deux années éprouvantes dans l'archipel des Marquises, et le jeune Timaut ...Show more
More Than Nature Needs - Language, Mind, and Evolution by Derek Bickerton
$25.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
The human mind is an unlikely evolutionary adaptation. How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than anything a hunting-and-gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of evolutionary theory, saw humans as "divine exceptions" to natural selecti ...Show more
English in Australia and New Zealandan introduction to its history, structure and use by Kate Burridge; Jean Mulder
$25.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
Text for students of English or linguistics, introducing theoretical and methodological issues in modern linguistic study. Gives an overview of the structure and history of the English language, emphasising Australia and New Zealand. Uses a synchronic and diachronic approach drawing on many different tr ...Show more
An Introduction to Historical Linguistics by Terry Crowley
$18.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
All languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts and techniques of diachronic linguistics, the study of language change over time. It covers all themajor areas of historical linguistics, presenting concepts in aclear and c ...Show more
Empires of the Word - A language history of the world by Nicholas Ostler
$20.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another in the past, and what it is about -- say -- Greek, Sanskrit, Mandarin Chinese and English that has led to their supremacy at different times. / A lively, witty and ...Show more
Introducing Chomsky by John Maher; Judy Groves
$10.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
Place Name Types and Cultural Sequence in Polynesia - report of a simple statisitical study of an investigation still in progress by Aarne A Koskinen
$40.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Annals of The Finnish Society for Missiology and Ecumenics XXIV | Reading Level: very good
Nukuoro Lexicon by Vern Carroll; Tobias Soulik
$135.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: PALI Language Texts - Polynesia | Reading Level: very good
Grammaire et Dictionnaire de la Langue des Iles Marquises - Francais-Marquises by Rene Ildefonse Dordillon
$120.00 NZD
Category: Pacific | Series: Travaux et Memoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie XVII | Reading Level: good-very good