01502cam a2200253 a 4500991000500379707536091218s 000 0 eng d9780631233053b1386659x-39ule_instDip.to Filolgia Ling. e Lett.ita408.922Evans, Nicholas457331Dying words :endangered languages and what they have to tell us /Nicholas EvansChichester, U.K. ;Malden, MA :Wiley-Blackwell,2010xxii, 287 p. :ill., maps ;25 cm.The language libraryInclude bibliografia (p. [249]-269) e indiciA 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..b1386659x28-01-1418-12-09991000500379707536LE008 FL.M. (SCL) D 9012008000420604le008-E0.00-l- 00000.i1505076218-12-09Dying words231560UNISALENTOle00818-12-09ma -engenk00