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
مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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.