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Language: en
Pages: 497
Pages: 497
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the h
Language: en
Pages: 474
Pages: 474
Type: BOOK - Published: 1972-12-14 - Publisher: CUP Archive
Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they
Language: en
Pages: 594
Pages: 594
Type: BOOK - Published: 1977-10-06 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidin, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a 'mixed ergative' type that cannot easily be acco
Language: en
Pages: 283
Pages: 283
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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 acce
Language: en
Pages: 562
Pages: 562
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker cod
