10: Grammatical Word and Phonological Word
11: Distinguishing Noun and Verb
12: The Adjective Class
13: Transitivity
14: Copula Clauses and Verbless Clauses
15: Pronouns and Demonstratives
16: Possession
17: Relative Clause Constructions
18: Complement Clauses and Complementation Strategies
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, and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP 2005).
There can be little doubt that Basic Linguistic Theory is a
valuable addition to the linguistic literature, both as a broadly
conceived typological study and as an inspiring guide to grammar
writers ... BLT covers the principal parts of grammar and probably
more extensively so than any other single book of its kind.
*Steffen Haurholm-Larsen, Studies in Language*
These are two wonderful books, a treasure trove of ideas and
information, a reference work for many decades to come, and a
must-have for any field linguist worth his or her salt. It is
written in a clear and lucid style.... Dixon's ability to put
forward complex ideas in understandable prose is outstanding, and
the occasional anecdotal reference to his own field work situations
further livens up the prose....I found these books extremely
informative, exceedingly useful, and profoundly inspiring. It has
given me a renewed motivation to further study the languages I'm
involved with. These are books I can recommend to every graduate
student in linguistics, to every linguistic field worker - those
just starting out as well as those who have finished five
grammars.
*René van den Berg, Studies in Language *
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