01780cam a2200325 a 4500 10331 10331 15486487 OSt 20200319173911.0 081016s2010 enkab b 001 0 eng 2008044645 9780631233053 (alk. paper) 9780631233060 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0631233059 (alk. paper) 0631233067 (pbk. : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn263146950 DLC DLC YDXCP BWKUK BWK YAM CDX DLC P40.5.E53 E93 2010 408.9 EVA 22 Evans, Nicholas, 1956- Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xxii, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. The language library 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. Endangered languages. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc RFT 0 0 ddc 0 0 R-16/2 AIISH AIISH 2020-03-19 0 408.9 EVA 17525 2020-03-19 00:00:00 2020-03-19 RFT