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    Are Some Languages Better than Others?

    R. M. W. Dixon (Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director, Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director, Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University)

    This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Written in the author’s usual accessible and engaging…

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    Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders: Studies in Dyirbal, Yidin, and Warrgamay

    R. M. W. Dixon

    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…

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    Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders: Studies in Dyirbal, Yidin, and Warrgamay

    R. M. W. Dixon

    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…

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    A Grammar of Yidin

    R. M. W. Dixon

    Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidin, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a ‘mixed ergative’ type that cannot easily be accommodated in terms of standard syntactic…

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    The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland

    R. M. W. Dixon

    Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects.

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    Australia’s Original Languages: An Introduction

    R. M. W. Dixon

    An introduction to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait languages that explains their distinctive features accessibly for readers who have no previous experience with learning another language, and shows how language…

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    Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker

    R. M. W. Dixon

    R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland. This account of his research between 1963 and 1977 reveals the…

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    A Semantic Approach to English Grammar

    R. M. W. Dixon

    Shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. This book starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms…

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    A Semantic Approach to English Grammar

    R. M. W. Dixon

    Shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. This book starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms…

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    Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker

    R. M. W. Dixon

    R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland. This account of his research between 1963 and 1977 reveals the…

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    The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland

    R. M. W. Dixon

    Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects.

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    A Grammar of Yidin

    R. M. W. Dixon

    Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidin, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a ‘mixed ergative’ type that cannot easily be accommodated in terms of standard syntactic…

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    I am a Linguist: With a foreword by Peter Matthews

    R.M.W. Dixon,R M W Dixon

    The story of extended linguistic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia, Fiji and Amazonia, linked to theoretical study of the nature of human language, also throwing in detective novels, science fiction stories…

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    The Languages of Australia

    R. M. W. Dixon (Australian National University, Canberra)

    Described by Ken Hale as ‘nothing less than a masterpiece’ and by P. H. Matthews as ‘absolutely clear, astonishingly complete, factually fascinating’, The Languages of Australia (1980) was a landmark…

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    Ergativity

    R. M. W. Dixon (Australian National University, Canberra)

    Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of the world’s languages show ergative properties. R. M. W. Dixon provides a survey of the various types…

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    Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development

    R. M. W. Dixon (La Trobe University, Victoria)

    Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon…

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    The Rise and Fall of Languages

    R. M. W. Dixon (La Trobe University, Victoria)

    Professor Dixon challenges views held by linguists, archaeologists and geneticists about the origins and development of human language, notably those concerning the usefulness of the ‘family tree’ model of language…

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    Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development

    R. M. W. Dixon (La Trobe University, Victoria)

    Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon…

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    The Unmasking of English Dictionaries

    R. M. W. Dixon (James Cook University, North Queensland)

    This book describes the historical development of modern dictionaries that treat each word in isolation, and puts forward a new approach to lexicography which contrasts the meanings and functions of…

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    The Unmasking of English Dictionaries

    R. M. W. Dixon (James Cook University, North Queensland)

    This book describes the historical development of modern dictionaries that treat each word in isolation, and puts forward a new approach to lexicography which contrasts the meanings and functions of…

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    Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1: Methodology

    R. M. W. Dixon (Cairns Institute, James Cook University)

    In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for…

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    Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1: Methodology

    R. M. W. Dixon (Cairns Institute, James Cook University)

    In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for…

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    Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 2: Grammatical Topics

    R. M. W. Dixon (Cairns Institute, James Cook University)

    In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for…

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    Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 2: Grammatical Topics

    R. M. W. Dixon (Cairns Institute, James Cook University)

    In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The books are a one-stop text for…

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    Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3: Further Grammatical Topics

    R. M. W. Dixon (Cairns Institute, James Cook University)

    R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The volumes comprise a one-stop introduction for undergraduate and graduate students…

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    Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3: Further Grammatical Topics

    R. M. W. Dixon (Cairns Institute, James Cook University)

    R. M. W. Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The 3 volumes comprise a one-stop introduction for undergraduate and graduate…

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    A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian

    Robert M.W. Dixon

    The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two differing as…

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    A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian

    Robert M.W. Dixon

    The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two differing as…

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    The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

    The typological classification of languages is an important research area, and impacts on many other subfields of linguistics, in explaining why languages are the way they are. This Handbook provides…

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    Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity

    Scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world.

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    Word: A Cross-linguistic Typology

    This book discusses the concept ‘word’ and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages.

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    The Amazonian Languages

    The Amazon Basin is the least known and most complex linguistic region in the world today. Its 300-plus languages show properties that challenge received ideas about linguistic universals. This book…

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    The Amazonian Languages

    The Amazon Basin is one of the least-known and most complex linguistic regions in the world. Its 300-plus languages show properties that challenge received ideas about linguistic universals. This book…

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    Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity

    This book, originally published in 2000, examines ‘valency-changing mechanisms’ (phenomena including passives and causatives) in some of the most interesting languages in the world. The distinguished team of authors has…

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    Word: A Cross-linguistic Typology

    In this book, a distinguished international group of scholars discuss the concept ‘word’ and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages from all corners of the globe. Close…

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    The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

    The typological classification of languages is an important research area, and impacts on many other subfields of linguistics, in explaining why languages are the way they are. This Handbook provides…

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    Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics

    Considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. This book investigates the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of…

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    The Grammar of Knowledge: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

    This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs across a wide range of languages in different cultural settings. Like…

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    Commands: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

    This volume focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. Authors analyse the marking and meaning of commands…

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    Commands

    This volume focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. Authors analyse the marking and meaning of commands…

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    Possession and Ownership

    Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a…

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    Possession and Ownership: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

    Linguists and anthropologists explore the intriguing variety of possessive phrases denoting ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations across a…

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    The Grammar of Knowledge: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

    This book explores the expression of information source, inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs across a wide range of languages in different cultural settings. Like…

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    Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics

    Considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble each other. This book investigates the relationship between a real diffusion and the genetic development…

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    The Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

    This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the grammatical means languages employ to represent a set of semantic relations between clauses. Professor Dixon’s opening discussion is followed by fourteen case…

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    The Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

    This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the grammatical means languages employ to represent a set of semantic relations between clauses. Professor Dixon’s opening discussion is followed by fourteen case…

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    A New Grammar of Dyirbal

    R. M. W. Dixon (Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Professor, Central Queensland University, Cairns Campus)

    This book offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland. It includes updated analyses of key features of the language based on recent theoretical advances, and…

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    English Prepositions: Their Meanings and Uses

    R. M. W. Dixon (Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Professor, Central Queensland University, Cairns Campus)

    This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. It is written in a clear and accessible style, and…

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