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Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us
- Title
- Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans.
- Author
- Evans, Nicholas, 1956-
- Publication
- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Series Statement
- The language library
- Uniform Title
- Language library.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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 source -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 16-361
- ISBN
- 9780631233053
- 9780631233060
- 0631233059
- 0631233067
- LCCN
- 2008044645
- OCLC
- 263146950
- Author
- Evans, Nicholas, 1956-
- Title
- Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans.
- Imprint
- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The language libraryLanguage library.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-269) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
- Online version: Evans, Nicholas, 1956- Dying words. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 (OCoLC)620147080
- Research Call Number
- JFF 16-361