‎Philology‎

‎TEEUW, A.‎

‎Dialect-Atlas van/of Lombok (Indonesia).‎

‎Djakarta, 1951. Small folio-oblong. Orig. cloth-backed portfolio. V pp. and 80 maps (numb. VI-VII and 1-78).‎

Bookseller reference : 35638

‎NYROP, KR.‎

‎Grammaire historique de la Langue Francaise. 6 vols.‎

‎Copenhagen, Leipzig etc., 1914-30. Lex8vo. Bound in 6 uniform solid hfabrikoid.‎

Bookseller reference : 36046

‎BARSOUM, MONIR.‎

‎A Hundred Pages for You.‎

‎No Place, (1961). 4to-oblong. Full private cloth. (8),100 pp. 700 textdrawings to learn the basic of the Coptic language illustrating simple rules for beginners.‎

Bookseller reference : 36446

‎KROMAN, ERIK.‎

‎Musikalsk Akcent i Dansk. Med Tillæg: Svenske Indvandringer i Danmark i Oldtiden. English Summary.‎

‎København, Munksgaard, 1947. Orig. omslag. 275 pp.‎

‎Disputatsen.‎

Bookseller reference : 36597

‎GRAMMONT, MAURICE.‎

‎Traité de Phonetique. Avec 179 Figures dans le Texte.‎

‎Paris, Delagrave, 1933. Royal8vo. Orig. full cloth. XII,480 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 36754

‎WULFF, K.‎

‎Über das Verhältnis des Malayo-Polynesischen zum Indochinesischen.‎

‎Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1942. Orig. printed wrappers. 158 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 36910

‎HENDRIKSEN, HANS.‎

‎Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung des Hethitischen für die Laryngaltheorie.‎

‎Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1941. With orig. wrappers in solid full fabrikoid. 99 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 36985

‎WESSMAN, V.E.V.‎

‎Samling av Ord ur Östswenska Folkmål. Tillägg till H. Vendells Ordbok över de Östsvenska Dialekterna. 2 Bd.‎

‎Helsf., 1925- 32. Lex8vo. Hldrbd. XXXI, 576, XII, 713 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 3786

‎BØGH, M.F.G.‎

‎Dansk Retskrivningslære, foredraget som selvstændig videnskabelig Lære et Forsøg.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Seidelin, 1822. Lille 8vo. Samtidigt hldrbd. med skindtitel. Ryg med brugsspor. 247,(2) pp. Lidt spredte marginale brunpletter.‎

Bookseller reference : 37901

‎NORDBERG, STIG OLSSON.‎

‎Fornsvenskan i våra latinska Originaldiplom f'ore 1300 I. Akademisk Avhandling.‎

‎Uppsala, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1926. Med orig. bogtrykt foromslag i samtidigt hldrbd. XIII,231 pp. Dedikation til E. Hellquist på foromslaget.‎

‎Disputatsdelen, men der udkom yderligere en del 2.‎

Bookseller reference : 37971

‎ARNAULD ET LANCELOT.‎

‎Grammaire genérale et raisonnée de Port-Royal. Précedée d'un Essai sur l'origine et les progrés de la Langue Francoise, par M. Pettitot, Et suivie du Commentaire de M. Duclos, auquel on a ajouté des Notes.‎

‎Paris, Chez Perlet, N XI. - 1803. Contemp. full calf, gilt back, wear to top of spine. A small piece of the titlelabel gone. Back slightly rubbed. (6),470,(2) pp. Internally clean, printed on good paper.‎

Bookseller reference : 38074

‎"JONES, WILLIAM.‎

‎On the Hindu's. [In: Asiatic Researches or, Transaction of the Bengal Asiatic Society]. - [FOUNDING COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY - PMM 235]‎

‎(Calcutta, Printed and sold by Manuel Cantopher, and sold at London by P. Elmsly, 1788). 4to. Extracted and bound in a recent vey nice marbled dark blue paper-binding w. matching gilt burgundy leather title-label to front board. A very nice and clean copy. Pp. 415-431‎

‎The seminal first edition of this groundbreaking paper which determined the connection between the Indo-European languages and thereby founded comparative philology and Indo-European studies. ""This slim paper read to the Bengal Asiatic Society and published in its ""Transaction"" marks a turning-point in the history of linguistics and signaled the birth of comparative philology."" (PMM 235).Sir William Jones (1746-1794) was an English philologist and judge who was stationed in India in 1780. He is the founder of the Asiatic Society and now famous as the discoverer and propounder of the existence of a relationship between the Indo-European languages. As he was stationed in India, he set out to master the ancient Sanskrit language, among other things in order to study native Indian law codes, which were written in this language. Due to his excellent language skills and his already perfect mastering of Greek and Latin, Jones discovered a shocking similarity between the languages in a huge number of words. By this discovery of the connection between Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, Jones had, without realizing it initially, discovered what was to be known as proto-Indo-European, -the lost mother tongue of almost all European, Indian and Russian languages as well as some Middle Eastern ones. And thus, with this breakthrough work, Jones, for the first time in history, presents man with the fact that there exists one single, ancient, prehistoric language that led to the development of numerous languages in Europe, India, Russia and the Middle East. It was to take subsequent scholars almost a decade to uncover what exactly this language was, but because of Jones' founding of comparative philology, the likes of Karl Verner and Jakob Grimm have been able to do this.The passage, for which Jones is most famous comes from the present work and has gone down in history as the single most important passage within the literature pertaining to comparative philology: ""The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure" more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanscrit" and the old Persian might be added to the same family."" With these words, linguistics had witnessed a turning-point that was to change this science for ever and that was furthermore to point in the direction of a future understanding of the common heritage that much of mankind possesses. ""In 1786 Jones made his epoch-making discovery between the Sanskrit, Gothic, Greek and Latin languages -to which he later, erroneously, thought he could add Egyptian. His clear understanding of the basic principles of scientific linguistics provided the foundation on which Rask, Bopp and Grimm built the imposing structure of Indo-European studies."" (PMM 235).‎

Bookseller reference : 38098

‎"JAKOBSON, ROMAN.‎

‎Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze. - [THE RISE AND FALL OF LANGUAGES]‎

‎Uppsala, 1941. 8vo. Bound in a recent full blue cloth w. printed paper title to front board. A bit of creasing to title-page and remains of cloth strip to hinge of title-page. Otherwise nice and clean, w. some marginal notes, all in light pencil. Old owner's name to title-page (J.A. Joffe). (2), 83 pp.‎

‎The very scarce first edition of Jakobson's monumental work, ""Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals"", in which the seminal linguist and founder of the Prague School presents a revolutionary theory about the underlying uniform structure of the world's languages. Roman Osipovich Jakobson (1896 - 1982) was a famous Russian linguist and literary critic, who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century. He is probably most famous as the pioneer of structural analysis of language and as the co-founder of structuralism.Jakobson was born into a Russian Jewish family. He early on showed a great interest in the theory of language, and already as a student he became a leading figure of the Moscow Linguistic Circle. He was very much influenced by Husserl's phenomenology and the work of Saussure, and he developed a deep interest in the question of how language, the human speech, functions and is possible.Due to political troubles in Russia, in 1920 Jakobsen moved to Prague, where he was to become even more influential. He here, in 1926, co-founded the Prague School of linguistic theory, together with the Copenhagen School the most influential school of linguistics of its time and of decades to come. It is here that Jakobson develops his seminal ideas of phonology as well as the term structuralism and the contents of it.When the Second World War broke out, Jakobson moved to Scandinavia, where he met the Copenhagen School of linguistics and its main figure, Louis Hjelmslev. It is during his time in Scandinavia that he writes (in German) and published (in Uppsala, Sweden) his influential ""Kindersprache..."". Later he fled to America, where he met Claude Lévi-Strauss, Quine, Bloomfeld and many other important thinkers within the field of language theory.Jakobson's structuralist theories of language differentiate much from other parts of the structuralist movement in that he constantly bases them on knowledge from other sciences, from mathematics, philosophy, psychology etc.In the present work, Jakobson sets out to prove that child language and aphasia must be considered within comparative linguistics, because it is the same rules that govern these as those that govern all human world languages. """"Die einzige Gelegenheit, die wir haben, die menschliche Sprache in statu nascendi zu beobachten bietet das Kind."" So schrieb vor kurzem Karl Bühler, und man könnte dementsprechend fortsetzen: ""Die einzige Gelegenheit, die wir haben, die menschliche Sprache im Abbau zu beobachten, bieten die pathologischen Sprachstörungen zentraler Natur."" Für den Linguisten, der sich mit dem Enfaltetsein des Sprachgebildes befasst, muss auch seine GEBURT und ABSTERBEN viel lehrreiches bieten. Diese drei Teilformen des sprachlichen Geschehens wurden trotzdem noch nicht einer systematischen vergleichenden Analyse unterzogen."" (p. (1)-2). (""""The only opportunity we have to observe the human language in statu nascendi is offered by the child."" So Karl Bühler wrote not long ago, and one could continue in the same manner: ""The only opportunity we have to observe the human language in disintegration is offered by the pathological language disturbances of central nature."" For the linguist, who is occupied with the turning out of the language formation, its BIRTH and DEATH must also contribute with something instructive. In spite of this, these three parts of the happening of language have not yet been subjected to a systematic comparative analysis."" -Own translation). Jakobson now formulated specific hypotheses about the order in which children acquire their native language and about the nature of language dissolution, creating an entirely new approach to the study of the world's languages. By linking observations about language typology, language acquisition and language pathology, Jakobson here presents an original, revolutionizing theory about the structure of the sound inventories that underlie the world languages. This approach to the study of the structure of sound and language was clearly ahead of its time, and phonology still did not have the sufficient empirical evidence or the sufficient instruments to properly verify it. Thus, only much later has Jakobsen's theories on the rise and fall of language been fully appreciated.‎

Bookseller reference : 38103

‎"VOLTAIRE, (F.M.A. de).‎

‎Elémens de la Philosophie de Neuton. Contenant la Metaphysique, la Théorie de la Lumiere, & celle du Monde. Nouvelle Edition.‎

‎A Londres (but Paris), no printer, 1744. Small 8vo. Contemp. full mottled calf, raised bands, richly gilt back. Previous owners stamp on tp. Engraved portrait (Newton), engraved titlevignette, VIII,5-12,(1-)232,209-471,(4) pp. The text is complete and continous despite the odd pagination. Having 8 engraved plates (1 folding) and many textengravings. A few leaves with contemporary marginal notes. Internally fine and clean.‎

‎Second or third edition, a contrefacon not printed in London, but in Paris. ""Voltaires's importence for the history of science lies particularly in his having composed a famous popularization of Newton, Élemens de la philosophie de Nrwton (1738), while also collaborating with his companion and mistress, Émilie, marquise de Chatelet, on her translation of the Principia into French, and more generally in his having referred, with the lightness of touch that made him a serious critic of the human condition, his moral philosophy to what he took to be Newtonian, and hence a correct account of physical reality."" (DSB XIV:p.83), The work has been called one of the most beautifull illustrated scientific works at all.- This edition not in Gray's Bibliography.‎

Bookseller reference : 38273

‎LANGHE, R.. DE.‎

‎Les Textes de Ras Shamra-Ugarit et leurs apports à l'Historie des Origines israélites.‎

‎Bruges, Bryart & Louvain, Bibliothèque de l'Université, 1939. Extrait des Ephemerides Theologicae Louvanienses, Tome XVI, 1939, p. 245-327.‎

‎Bulletin d'histoire et d'exégèse de l'ancien Testament. Fasc. 7.‎

Bookseller reference : 38716

‎BUTTMANN, PHILIPP.‎

‎Griechische Grammatik Achtzehnte, verbesserte Auflage.‎

‎Berlin, Myliussche Verlagsbuchhandl., 1849. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt but somewhat rubbed. Stamps on titlepage. (2),522 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 38890

‎TÖNGES, KONRAD.‎

‎Lebenserscheinungen und Verbreitung des deutschen Märchens.‎

‎Giessen, Verlag von Münchowsche Unversitäts-Druckerei Otto Kindt , 1937. Orig. printed wrappers. 98 pp. + 1 folded map.‎

‎(Gießener Beiträge zur deutschen Philologie, 56).‎

Bookseller reference : 39022

‎SHELLABEAR, W.G.‎

‎Malay-English Vocabulary. Containing over 7000 Malay Words or Phrases with their English equivalents, together with an Appendix of Household, Nautical and Medical Terms etc. 2nd edition, revised and enlarged.‎

‎Singapore, Methodist Publishing House, 1912. Orig. full cloth, hinges loose, front board stained. XII, 157 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 39029

‎SCHÜTTE, GUDMUND.‎

‎Gotthiod und Utgard. Altgermanische Sagengeographie in neuer Auffassung. I-II.‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Aschehoug Dansk Forlag, 1935-36. Orig.bogtrykt omslag, uopskåret. (12),+ 336 (12),+ 372 pp. Illustreret.‎

Bookseller reference : 39184

‎FEILBERG, H.F.‎

‎En Kaargild. En Samling Fortællinger, Æventyr, Remser i jydske Folkemaal.‎

‎Aarhus 1897. Smukt privat marmoreret papirbind med skindtitelfelt, originalt for-og bagomslag medindbundet. 91 s.‎

‎1. udgave.‎

Bookseller reference : 39365

‎MOLEMA, H.‎

‎Wörterbuch der Groningschen Mundart im neunzehnten Jahrhundert.‎

‎Norden & Leipzig, Soltau, 1888. Later half cloth. VIII, 583 pp.‎

‎Wörterbücher. Herausgegeben vom Verein für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung. Band III.‎

Bookseller reference : 39368

‎GRIMM, JACOB.‎

‎Deutsche Grammatik. Vierter Theil. Neuer vermehrter Abdruck. Besorgt durch Gustav Roethe und Edward Schroeder.‎

‎Gütersloh, Bertelsmann, 1898. Bound in two later full clothbindings. LXII, 1312 pp.‎

‎Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (1785 - 1863), German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, his Deutsche Mythologie and more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales‎

Bookseller reference : 39513

‎MIKKELSEN, KR.‎

‎Dansk Ordföjningslære. Med sproghistoriske Tillæg. Håndbog for viderekomne og lærere. Fotografisk optryk af originaludgaven fra 1911.‎

‎Kbhvn. 1975. Orig. helshirt. 800 pp.‎

Bookseller reference : 39516

‎BRØNDAL, VIGGO.‎

‎Substrater og Laan i Romers og Germansk. Studier i Lyd- og Ordhistorie.‎

‎K., 1917. Hshirt. (Disp.). 215 pp. St.p.t.‎

Bookseller reference : 4038

‎"HJELMSLEV, LOUIS.‎

‎Principes de grammaire générale. - [ANTICIPATING ""GLOSSEMATICS""]‎

‎København, Høst & Søn, 1928. 8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. A bit of minor wear to extremities and a bit of wear to spine. An excellent, very nice and clean copy. 362, (1 - errata) pp.‎

‎The rare first edition of Hjelmslev's first major book, in which he anticipates many of the views that led to the foundation of the seminal theory of language ""Glossematics"" which he framed together with H.J. Uldall. This foundational work treats the general laws of the formation of language and is an invaluable source for the understanding of Hjelmslev's linguistic theories. Hjelmslev had studied comparatvive linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris, when in 1931 he co-founded the ""Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague"", also known as the ""Copenhagen School of Linguistics"" with Viggo Brøndal (1887-1942). Hjelmslev's linguistic theories formed the basis of this seminal school, which soon became one of the most important centres of structuralism in the world. The single most important cornerstone of this internationally highly influential school was the new theory on language that Hjelmslev had developed together with Hans-Jørgen Uldall. This theory consisted in the double duality of the linguistic sign and is now known as ""Glossematics"", a now generally used term, which was coined by the two. ""Glossematics"" represents an attempt to analyze the contents and the form of language on a coherent basis. Hjelmslev's theories of semiotics became hugely influential, and virtually all of the greatest European thinkers interested in language and theories of language throughout the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s were hugely influenced by Hjemslev, whose theories remain of seminal character to this day.‎

Bookseller reference : 41377