:Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us
/ Nicholas Evans
Chichester, U.K. ;Malden, MA
: Wiley-Blackwell
, 2010.
xxii, 287 p.
: , ill., maps
(The Language Library)
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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