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Author:   R. M. W. Dixon (, Cairns Institute, James Cook University) ,  Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (, Cairns Institute, James Cook University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.662kg
ISBN:  

9780199600700

ISBN 10:   0199600708
Pages:   430
Publication Date:   13 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: R. M. W. Dixon: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Typological Perspective 2: Guy Deutscher: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Akkadian 3: Mark Post: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Galo 4: David E. Watters: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Kham 5: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Manambu 6: Lev Michael: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Iquito 7: Simon Overall: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Aguaruna 8: J. Randolph Valentine: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Ojibwe 9: R. M. W. Dixon: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Boumaa Fijian 10: Frantisek Lichtenberk: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Toqabaqita 11: Alan Dench: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Martuthunira 12: Ho-min Sohn: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Korean 13: Birgit Hellwig: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Goemai 14: Maarten Mous and Ongaye Oda: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Konso 15: Tonya N. Stebbins: The Semantics of Clause Linking in Mali 16: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Semantics and Grammar in Clause Linking Author Index Language Index Subject Index

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Built upon an innovative theoretical basis and well-documented empirical materials from an impressively wide and representative variety of the world's languages, this book presents a wealth of insightful analyses and highly useful suggestions for further research on clause linking. Lars Johanson, Language

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R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University. His pioneering fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages began in the 1960s and led, among many other works, to grammars of Dyirbal and Yidiñ, culminating in Australian Languages: Their nature and development (CUP 2002). His other books include A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (U Chicago Press 1988), Ergativity (CUP, 1994), The Rise and Fall of Languages (CUP 1997) and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP 2005). The hardback edition of The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP 2004) was winner of the 2004-5 Leonard Bloomfield Prize. Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a Grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages.; Her lengthy grammar, The Manambu Language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, was published by OUP in 2008. Other monographs with OUP are Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004), and Imperatives and Commands (2010).

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