Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia

Zusatztext A fundamental grammatical description of this sort - complete with glossed texts! dictionary materials! a wealth of diachronic insights! and authoritative social and cultural information about the speakers - might be expected to constitute the crowning achievement in a lifetime of successful effort. For this author! however! it is merely another in a long roster of outstanding linguistic accomplishments that promise to continue unabated. Informationen zum 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) 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, Klappentext The first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, by one of the world's leading linguists. Zusammenfassung The first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, by one of the world's leading linguists.

Product details

• Authors: R. M. W. Dixon, R.M.W. Dixon, R.m.w. ( Dixon, Robert M. W. Dixon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780199600694
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960069-4
• No. of pages: 732
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology