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020 _a9780631233053 (alk. paper)
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020 _a0631233059 (alk. paper)
020 _a0631233067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 0 0 _aP40.5.E53
_bE93 2010
082 0 0 _a408.9 EVA
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100 1 _aEvans, Nicholas,
_d1956-
245 1 0 _aDying words :
_bendangered languages and what they have to tell us /
_cNicholas Evans.
260 _aChichester, U.K. ;
_aMalden, MA :
_bWiley-Blackwell,
_c2010.
300 _axxii, 287 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c25 cm.
440 4 _aThe language library
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-269) and indexes.
505 0 _aA 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.
650 0 _aEndangered languages.
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