Awards

• Winner of Linguistic Society of America Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2006.
• Winner of Winner of the 2006 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award.

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Author:   R.M.W. Dixon (, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780199270675

ISBN 10:   0199270678
Pages:   664
Publication Date:   07 October 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: INTRODUCTION: THE LANGUAGE AND ITS SPEAKERS 2: PHONOLOGY 3: GRAMMATICAL OVERVIEW 4: PREDICATE STRUCTURE - GENERAL 5: PREDICATE STRUCTURE - MISCELLANEOUS SUFFIXES 6: PREDICATE STRUCTURE - THE TENSE-MODAL SYSTEM 7: PREDICATE STRUCTURE - SECONDARY VERBS, MOOD AND NEGATION 8: VERBAL DERIVATIONS - CAUSATIVE AND APPLICATIVE 9: VERBAL REDUPLICATION 10: NOUN PHRASE STRUCTURE 11: POSSESSED NOUNS, AND ADJECTIVES 12: DEMONSTRATIVES AND RELATED FORMS 13: COPULA CLAUSES 14: STRUCTURE OF A VERBAL MAIN CLAUSE 15: COMMANDS AND QUESTIONS 16: A-CONSTRUCTIONS AND O-CONSTRUCTIONS 17: COMPLEMENT CLAUSES 18: DEPENDENT CLAUSES 19: NOMINALISED CLAUSES 20: PERIPHERAL MARKER jaa AND ni-jaa 21: OTHER PERIPHERAL MARKERS 22: THE RELATIONAL NOUN ihi/ehene 'DUE TO, BECAUSE OF' 23: LIST CONSTRUCTIONS 24: SYNTACTIC ORGANISATION 25: WORD CLASS DERIVATIONS 26: TOPICS IN SEMANTICS 27: PREHISTORY

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A fundamental grammatical description of this sort - complete with glossed texts, dictionary materials, a wealth of diachronic insights, and authoritative social and cultural information about the speakers - might be expected to constitute the crowning achievement in a lifetime of successful effort. For this author, however, it is merely another in a long roster of outstanding linguistic accomplishments that promise to continue unabated. Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University

A fundamental grammatical description of this sort - complete with glossed texts, dictionary materials, a wealth of diachronic insights, and authoritative social and cultural information about the speakers - might be expected to constitute the crowning achievement in a lifetime of successful effort. For this author, however, it is merely another in a long roster of outstanding linguistic accomplishments that promise to continue unabated. * Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University *

Author Information

R. M. W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidin), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press 1988), A New Approach to English Grammar, on Semantic Principles (OUP 1991, revised edition in preparation), and The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP 2004). His books on typological theory include Where have all the Adjectives Gone? and other Essays in Semantics and Syntax (1982) and Ergativity (1994). His essay The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997) expounded a punctuated equilibrium model for language development which is the basis for his detailed case study Australian Languages: their Nature and Development (2002). He is currently working on an extensive study of basic linguistic theory.

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