Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans.
Series: Language libraryPublication details: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.Description: xxii, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780631233053 (alk. paper)
- 9780631233060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0631233059 (alk. paper)
- 0631233067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 408.9 22
- P40.5.E53 E93 2010
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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.
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