:endangered languages and what they have to tell us
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Nicholas Evans
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chichester, U.K. ;Malden, MA
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Wiley-Blackwell
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2010.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxii, 287 p.
Other Physical Details
: , ill., maps
SERIES
Series Title
(The language library)
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CONTENTS NOTE
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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 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.