R M W Dixon

Gebundenes Buch

Basic Linguistic Theory, Volume 3

Further Grammatical Topics

Beschreibung

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 of linguistics. "Truly a guide for the perplexed. Basic Linguistic Theory is destined to be a classic." Nick Enfield

Autor

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, A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP 2005), I am a Linguist (Brill 2011), and the first two volumes of Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 178mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1139g
• ISBN-13: 9780199571093
• ISBN-10: 0199571090
• Artikelnr.: 35893998