Language and Linguistics

Language and Linguisitcs includes 39 books, covering English, Latin, Greek, Esperanto, and other languages from around the world.

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Table of Contents

General

• Language by Edward Sapir, 1921
• How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin
• Literary Blunders by Henry Wheatley
• On the Study of Words by Richard Trench
• The Philosophy of Style by Herbert Spencer
• Slips of Speech by John Bechtel
• Style by Walter Raleigh

Esperanto and the Effort to Create a Universal Language

• A Philosophicall Essay for the Reunionof the Languages by James Good, 1675
• A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman
• Esperanto, Hearings Before the Committe on Education, 1914
• The Esperanto Teacher by Helen Fryer

African Languages

• The Folk-Literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia by Enrico Cerulli. Primary source for folk tales, history, legends, and culture of the Galla/Oromo people, the majority cultural group in Ethiopia. The texts are presented in the original Oromo, with translations and detailed notes and explanations.

Asian Languages

• The Khasis by Major P.R.T. Grudon

European Languages

English and Scottish

• A Concise Dictionary of Middle English (1150 to 1580) by Rev. A.L. Mayhew and Rev. Walter W. Skeat
• The Dialect of West England, particularly Somersetshire by James Knight Jennings, 1869
• English Dialects from the Eigth Century to the Present Day by Rev. Walter Skeat, 1912
• The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Leland, 1874
• The Englishing of French Words by Brander Matthews, 1921
• The Evolution of English Lexicography by James Murray, 1900
• The Influence of Old Norse Literature Upon English Literature by Conrad Hjalman Nordby, 1901
• The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from Latin by John Sargeaunt, 1920
• Scandinavian Influence on Southern Lowland Scotch, 1900
• English Homophones, Society for Pure English, Tract No. 2, by Robert Bridges, 1919
• Three Articles on Metaphor, Society for Pure English, Tract 11, by H.W. Fowler and A. Clutton-Brock

French

• French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
• Glossaire Franco-Canadien by Oscar Dunn, 1880

Greek

• Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong, 1876

Latin

• New Latin Grammar by Charles Bennett
• Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles: a First Latin Reader by John Kirtland
• The Roman Pronunciation of Latin by Frances Lord

Romansh (Switzerland)

• An Account of the Romansh Language by Joseph Plata, 1775

Slavic Languages

• Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Talvi, 1850

Native American Languages

• Alaska Indian Dictionary, comiled by Charles Lee, 1896
• Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon by George Gibbs, 1863
• French-Onondaga Dictionary by John Gilmany Shea, 1860
• Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language by Buckingham Smith, 1861
• The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockett
• Vocabulary of the Mutsun Language by Father Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta, 1861

Pacific

• Grammar and Vocabulary fo the Lau Language [Solomon Islands] by Walter Ivens

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