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If you loved Our Language by Simeon Potter, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Historical & Comparative, Linguistics, and Language Arts & Disciplines.

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Thomas Hardy’s Pastoral An Unkindly May — Indy Clark

Thomas Hardy’s Pastoral An Unkindly May

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680 — John M. Adrian

Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

A Grammar For Elementary Schools (1901) — George Alonzo Mirick

A Grammar For Elementary Schools (1901)

George Alonzo Mirick

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

A Grammar of Khowar Descriptive and Comparative Analysis — Elena Bashir

A Grammar of Khowar Descriptive and Comparative Analysis

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Postcolonial Literary Geographies Out of Place — John Thieme

Postcolonial Literary Geographies Out of Place

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World — J. P. Mallory

The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Dickens and the Grown-Up Child — M. Andrews

Dickens and the Grown-Up Child

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — Robert Miles

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul — I. Coovadia

Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Social Variation and the Latin Language — J. N. Adams

Social Variation and the Latin Language

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She — Dennis Baron

What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Semiotic Perspectives — Sándor Hervey

Semiotic Perspectives

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Inside The Writers’ Room Conversations with American TV Writers — Christina Kallas

Inside The Writers’ Room Conversations with American TV Writers

Christina Kallas

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Language Game How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World — Morten H. Christiansen

The Language Game How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

Morten H. Christiansen

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Genre-based Automated Writing Evaluation for L2 Research Writing From Design to Evaluation and Enhancement — E. Cotos

Genre-based Automated Writing Evaluation for L2 Research Writing From Design to Evaluation and Enhancement

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Life of Slang — Julie Coleman

The Life of Slang

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Conrad and Masculinity — A. Roberts

Conrad and Masculinity

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The Korean Language — Ho-Min Sohn

The Korean Language

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism — A. Ng

Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-European — Antonia Ruppel

Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-European

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development — David J. Messer

Critical Influences on Child Language Acquisition and Development

David J. Messer

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

The English Language A Linguistic History — Laurel J. Brinton

The English Language A Linguistic History

Laurel J. Brinton

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions — Patrick Saint-Dizier

Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

Patrick Saint-Dizier

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

A Brief Summary Of German Grammar And A Beginners’ Vocabulary (1914) — Eric Viele Greenfield

A Brief Summary Of German Grammar And A Beginners’ Vocabulary (1914)

Eric Viele Greenfield

Themes: Historical & Comparative • Linguistics • Language Arts & Disciplines

If Our Language by Simeon Potter is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Historical & Comparative, Linguistics, Language Arts & Disciplines and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Indy Clark, John M. Adrian, George Alonzo Mirick, Elena Bashir, and others.

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