TY  - BOOK
AU  - Evans,Nicholas
TI  - Dying words: endangered languages and what they have to tell us 
T2  - The language library
SN  - 9780631233053 (alk. paper)
AV  - P40.5.E53 E93 2010
U1  - 408.9 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chichester, U.K., Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Endangered languages
N1  - 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
ER  -