| Description |
xxii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
The language library
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Language library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Endangered languages.
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Endangered languages. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Evans, Nicholas, 1956- Dying words. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 (OCoLC)620147080 |
| ISBN |
9780631233060 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780631233053 alkaline paper |
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0631233059 alkaline paper |
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0631233067 paperback alkaline paper |
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