Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans
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| Autore: |
Evans, Nicholas
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| Titolo: |
Dying words : endangered languages and what they have to tell us / Nicholas Evans
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xxii, 287 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Disciplina: | 408.9 |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Include bibliografia (p. [249]-269) e indici |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| ISBN: | 9780631233053 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 991000500379707536 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. del Salento |
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The language library