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Austin, Peter K., editor
Living, Endangered, and Lost
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-25560-9
Barthes, Roland
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07177-3
Bauman, H-Dirksen L., Jennifer L. Nelson, and Heidi M. Rose, editors
Essays on American Sign Language Literature
$65.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-22975-4
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22976-1
Bowen, J. Donald, editor
A Course for Speakers of English
$49.95 paperback; 978-0-520-00156-5
Bright, William
Their Origin and Meaning, A Revised version of 1000 California Place Names by Erwin G. Gudde, Third edition
$15.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21271-8
Calhoun, Craig
Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21161-2
Caton, Steven C.
Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08261-8
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22873-3
Collier, Mark, and Bill Manley
A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself
$24.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-23949-4
Duranti, Alessandro
Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-08385-1
Ehret, Christopher
Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary
$75.00 paperback; 978-0-520-09799-5
Einsohn, Amy
A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24688-1
Fabian, Johannes
The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo 1880-1938
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-07625-9
Foley, John Miles
The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croation Return Song
$35.00 paperback; 978-0-520-08436-0
Frawley, William, Kenneth Hill, and Pamela Munro, editors
Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas
$34.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22996-9
Goldstein, Melvyn C., Gelek Rimpoche, and Lobsang Phuntshog
A Reading Course and Reference Grammar
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-07622-8
Goldstein, Tom, and Jethro K. Lieberman
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23473-4
Gudde, Erwin G.
The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names, Fourth edition
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-21316-6
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24217-3
Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl
Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-08579-4
Hejinian, Lyn
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21700-3
Hinton, Leanne, and Pamela Munro, editors
Description and Theory
$40.00 paperback; 978-0-520-09789-6
Houston, S. D.
$13.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06771-4
Jones, Gavin
The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America
$22.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21421-7
Karlinsky, Simon, edited, annotated, and with an introductory essay by
The Nabokov-Wilson Letters, 1940-1971, Revised and Expanded Edition
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22080-5
Keane, Webb
Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
$55.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-24651-5
$21.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24652-2
Kronfeld, Chana
Decentering Literary Dynamics
$25.00 paperback; 978-0-520-08347-9
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach
$18.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23207-5
Lanham, Richard A.
$19.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07669-3
Laurent, Richard
$85.00 paperback; 978-0-520-09832-9
Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson
A Functional Reference Grammar
$35.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06610-6
Luey, Beth, editor
Advice from Leading Editors
$16.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25401-5
Matisoff, James A.
$39.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-09855-8
Matisoff, James A.
System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction
$95.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-09843-5
McWhorter, John
Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages
$60.00 hardcover; 978-0-520-21999-1
Moreland, Floyd L., and Rita M. Fleischer
An Intensive Course
$35.95 paperback; 978-0-520-03183-8
Mullen, Harryette
$14.95 paperback; 978-0-520-23143-6
Nakayama, Toshihide
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-09841-1
Nunberg, Geoffrey, editor
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20451-5
Nurse, Derek, and Thomas J. Hinnebusch
A Linguistic History
$95.00 paperback; 978-0-520-09775-9
Page, R. I.
$13.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06114-9
Parkinson, Richard
The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22248-9
Ramaswamy, Sumathi
Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20805-6
Rogers, Michael C., Clare You, and Kyungnyun K. Richards
$45.00 paperback; 978-0-520-06994-7
Sapir, Edward
Selected Essays
$32.50 paperback; 978-0-520-05594-0
Schaller, Susan
$17.95 paperback; 978-0-520-20265-8
Schuh, Russell G.
$55.00 paperback; 978-0-520-09821-3
Shandler, Jeffrey
Postvernacular Language and Culture
$39.95 hardcover; 978-0-520-24416-0
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-25811-2
Shepherd, Alice
$41.95 paperback; 978-0-520-09852-7
Stevenson, Robert Louis
or the Lad with the Silver Button: The Original Text
$29.95 hardcover; 978-0-87328-177-5
Thomason, Sarah Grey, and Terrence Kaufman
$29.95 paperback; 978-0-520-07893-2
Thompson, Sandra A., Joseph Sung-Yul Park, and Charles N. Li
$34.95 paperback; 978-0-520-09854-1
Torrance, Robert M.
Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science
$24.95 paperback; 978-0-520-21159-9
Walker, C. B. F.
$15.95 paperback; 978-0-520-06115-6
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
$25.95 paperback; 978-0-520-24502-0
You, Clare, and Eunsu Cho
$35.95 paperback; 978-0-520-22295-3