Bibliograph

Dying words, endangered languages and what they have to tell us /, Nicholas Evans

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Dying words, endangered languages and what they have to tell us /, Nicholas Evans

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and indexes

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dying words

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Nicholas Evans

Sub title

endangered languages and what they have to tell us /

Table Of 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.

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