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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 draws on the author's detailed research over the last 50 years and more.
Sommario
- Preface
- Abbreviations and conventions
- Dialects and data
- 1: Overview
- 2: The S/O pivot
- 3: Nominal morphology
- 4: Questions
- 5: The number system
- 6: Relative clauses
- 7: Possession
- 8: Verbal structure and the consequence suffix
- 9: The potentiality and caution suffixes
- 10: The apprehensive suffix
- 11: The applicative/causative derivation
- 12: Valency-reducing derivations: antipassives, reflexive, and reciprocal
- 13: Noun markers, demonstratives, and verb markers-base part
- 14: Noun markers, demonstratives, and verb markers-ancillaries
- 15: Verbless clauses
- 16: Particles
- 17: Clitics
- Appendix: Ambitransitive verbs and like matters
- Text 61: How the black goanna changed into a crocodile
- References
- Vocabulary
- Inventory of affixes and clitics
- Index
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R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University, Cairns Campus, and has previously held positions at University College London, Harvard University, the Australian National University, University of California at Santa Cruz, La Trobe University, and James Cook University. His pioneering fieldwork on Indigenous Australian languages began in the 1960s and led, among many other works, to The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland (CUP 1972); he has also written grammars of Yidiñ, Warrgamay, Boumaa Fijian, and Jarawara. His many other books with OUP include the three-volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (2010-12), Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (2014), Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders (2015; paperback 2020), Are Some Languages Better than Others? (2016; paperback 2018), and English Prepositions: Their Meanings and Uses (2021).
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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 draws on the author's detailed research over the last 50 years and more.
