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Historical linguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- History --- Comparative linguistics. --- Historical linguistics.

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In this work Dixon provides a comprehensive guide to the nature of human languages and their description and analysis. The book is a how-to-manual for doing linguistics.

Linguistics. --- Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Linguistique --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Research --- Methodology. --- Recherche --- Méthodologie --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- 800 --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Méthodologie --- Grammaire comparée --- Grammaire comparée. --- Méthodologie. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Grammaticality (Linguistics) --- Grammaire comparée.

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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 Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this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.

Grammar --- Australian languages --- Australian languages. --- Aboriginal Australians --- Grammar. --- Languages --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Language - Linguistics --- Language - Linguistics.

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I am a Linguist provides a fascinating account of the academic adventures of multi-faceted linguist, R.M.W. (Bob) Dixon. There is fieldwork (and lengthy grammars) on Dyirbal, Yidiñ and other Aboriginal languages of Australia, the Boumaa dialect of Fijian, and Jarawara from the dense jungles of Amazonia. Theoretical studies include adjective classes, ergativity and complement clauses. There are also detective novels, science fiction stories, and pioneering work on blues and gospel discography. Interspersed with the autobiographical narrative are explanations of how linguistics is a scientific discipline, of the development of universities, of diminishing academic standards, and of the treatment of Aboriginal people in Australia. The book is written in an easy, accessible style with numerous illustrative anecdotes. It will be an inspiration to young linguists and of interest to the general reader curious about what a scientific linguist does.

Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Dixon, Robert M. W. --- Dixon, Bob, --- Dixon, R. M. W. --- Dixon, R. --- Dixon, Robert M. W.,

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In the early 1960s, R.M.W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were still in daily use, but others were only half-remembered by a single elder. This autobiographical account of fourteen years of research, first published in 1984, paints a fascinating picture of the frontier society that existed in the region nearly fifty years ago. It reveals the difficulties and the excitement of linguistic fieldwork, but most of all it focuses on the people who agreed to work with Dixon and patiently helped him to understand their dauntingly complex languages. They allowed him to record their legends and songs and spent many hours answering his questions; this book is a poignant reminder of the fragility of their ancient culture.

Australian languages --- Linguistics --- Linguists --- Fieldwork --- Dixon, Robert M. W., --- Philologists --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Aboriginal Australians --- Languages --- Dixon, Robert M. W. --- Dixon, Bob, --- Dixon, R. M. W. --- Dixon, R.