Australian Languages by R M W Dixon
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. The areal distribution of most features is illustrated with more than 30 maps, showing that the languages tend to move in cyclic fashion with respect to many of the parameters. There is also an index of languages and language groups. Professor Dixon, a pioneering scholar in the field, brings an interesting perspective to this diverse and complex material.-
Chinese
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The Romance Languages
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The Languages of Native North America
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Sign Languages
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The Germanic Languages
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The Slavic Languages
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The Languages of the Soviet Union
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The Languages of the Andes
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The Amazonian Languages
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The Celtic Languages
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The Korean Language
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The Dravidian Languages
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The Balkan Languages
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The Afroasiatic Languages
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The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Turkic
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The Languages of Japan
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Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 1, Theory and Structure
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The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
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The Indo-Aryan Languages
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Pidgins and Creoles: Volume 2, Reference Survey
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The Papuan Languages of New Guinea
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English Prepositions
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Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1
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Are Some Languages Better than Others?
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Where have All the Adjectives Gone?
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Changing Valency
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Word
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The Languages of Australia
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Searching for Aboriginal Languages
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Ergativity
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Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3
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Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders
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Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 2
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The Amazonian Languages
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Making New Words
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The Anatomy of Avoidance
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The Unmasking of English Dictionaries
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A New Grammar of Dyirbal
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A Grammar of Yidin
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The Semantics of Clause Linking
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The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland
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The Rise and Fall of Languages
R. M. W. Dixon is Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Victoria.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521473781 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521473780 |
| Title | Australian Languages |
| Author | R M W Dixon |
| Series | Cambridge Language Surveys |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2002-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 778 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |