Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us /
Evans, Nicholas, 1956-
Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans. - Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xxii, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - The language library . - Language library. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and indexes.
A note on the presentation of linguistic material -- Warramurrungunji's children -- Four millennia to tune In -- A Galapagos of tongues -- Your mind in mine : social cognition in grammar -- Sprung from some common sSource -- Travels in the logosphere : hooking ancient words onto ancient worlds -- Keys to decipherment : how living languages can unlock forgotten scripts -- Trellises of the mind : how language trains thought -- What verse and verbal art can weave -- Renewing the word -- Epilogue : Sitting in the dust, standing in the sky.
9780631233053 (alk. paper) 9780631233060 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0631233059 (alk. paper) 0631233067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008044645
Endangered languages.
P40.5.E53 / E93 2010
408.9
Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans. - Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xxii, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - The language library . - Language library. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and indexes.
A note on the presentation of linguistic material -- Warramurrungunji's children -- Four millennia to tune In -- A Galapagos of tongues -- Your mind in mine : social cognition in grammar -- Sprung from some common sSource -- Travels in the logosphere : hooking ancient words onto ancient worlds -- Keys to decipherment : how living languages can unlock forgotten scripts -- Trellises of the mind : how language trains thought -- What verse and verbal art can weave -- Renewing the word -- Epilogue : Sitting in the dust, standing in the sky.
9780631233053 (alk. paper) 9780631233060 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0631233059 (alk. paper) 0631233067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2008044645
Endangered languages.
P40.5.E53 / E93 2010
408.9