Robert M. Dixon

Basic Linguistic Theory, Volume 1

Methodology

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Produktbeschreibung

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 undergraduate and graduate students, the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's immersion in every aspect of language, and a lasting monument to innovative scholarship.

Target group: undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, as well as for those in neighbouring disciplines, such as psychology and anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780199571062
• ISBN-10: 0199571066
• Artikelnr.: 26175336

Autorenporträt

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), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP 2004), which was winner of the 2004-5 Leonard Bloomfield Prize, and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Basics
2: Principles to Follow
3: Grammar Overview
4: Analysis, Argumentation, and Explanation
5: Terminology
6: Doing Typology
7: Phonology
8: Lexicon
9: Field Linguistics

Rezensionen

There can be little doubt that Basic Linguistic Theory is a valuable addition to the linguistic literature, both as a broadly conceived typological study and as an inspiring guide to grammar writers ... BLT covers the principal parts of grammar and probably more extensively so than any other single book of its kind. Steffen Haurholm-Larsen, Studies in Language