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Autore |
Evans, Nicholas |
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Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans |
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
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xxii, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Include bibliografia (p. [249]-269) e indici |
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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. |
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