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Nicholas Evans

Dying Words

Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

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The next century will see more than half of the world's 6,000 languages go extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Yet each language contains its own philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions. This compelling book asks what the cost is to our collective intellectual heritage with the death of these languages. It brings conceptual issues vividly to life by weaving in portraits of individual 'last speakers' and anecdotes about linguists and their discoveries.In exploring what humanity stands to lose with the onset of massive language extinction, Dying Words considers a variety of connected issues: how… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-631-23305-3
  • EAN: 9780631233053
  • Produktnummer: 19160768
  • Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Seitenangabe: 312 S.
  • Masse: H25.1 cm x B17.1 cm x D2.2 cm 648 g
  • Gewicht: 648
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Nicholas Evans is head of the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He has worked on a wide variety of Australian Aboriginal languages as linguist, anthropologist and interpreter, and has recent extended his fieldwork into Papuan languages of the Trans-Fly region. He has written widely both on Aboriginal languages and across a broad spectrum of general linguistic topics, including grammars of Kayardild (1995) and Bininj Gun-wok (2003), dictionaries of Kayardild (1992) and Dalabon (2004, with Francesca Merlan and Maggie Tukumba), plus edited books on linguistics and archaeology (with Patrick McConvell), on polysynthesis (with Hans-Jürgen Sasse), on the classification of north Australian languages, and on grammar-writing (Catching Language: the standing challenge of grammar writing, with Felix Ameka and Alan Dench).

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