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About the Author
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 Yidin, 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).
Book Information
ISBN 9780192859907
Author R. M. W. Dixon
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 253mm * 173mm * 30mm