R M W Dixon

Edible Gender, Mother-In-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders

Studies in Dyirbal, Yidin, and Warrgamay. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 360 Seiten
ISBN 0198702906
EAN 9780198702900
Veröffentlicht Juli 2015
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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Beschreibung

This book builds on R. M. W. Dixon's most influential work on the languages of North Queensland. It brings together studies in the fields of phonology, syntax, language contact, and language attrition, illustrated with examples of the unusual and theoretically significant features of the languages studied.

Portrait

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011), and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP, 2005). His theoretical works include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? And other Essays on Semantics and Syntax (De Gruyter, 1982), Ergativity (CUP, 1994), the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12) and most recently Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (OUP 2014).