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R. M. W. Dixon is Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University, North Queensland and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages.

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The Semantics of Clause Linking

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon

OUP Oxford

2009-08-06

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This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and...

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A New Grammar of Dyirbal R. M. W. Dixon R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language descriptions in the history of linguistics. In the fifty years since its publication, Dixon has continued his detailed work on the... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2022-10-13 PDF 102,05 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Integration of Language and Society Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon , Nerida Jarkey The volume explores the integration of language and society as reflected in the grammar of a language. Each language bears an imprint of the society that speaks it; language reflects speakers' relationships with each other, their beliefs, and their ways of viewing the... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2021-11-30 PDF 102,05 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies English Prepositions R. M. W. Dixon This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles,... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2021-11-03 PDF 36,44 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Phonological Word and Grammatical Word Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon , Nathan M. White This volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages. 'Word' is a cornerstone for the understanding of any language: it is a pronounceable phonological unit; it has a meaning and a morphological structure and syntactic function; and it... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2020-11-05 PDF 89,90 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Commands Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon This book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders--from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech acts with... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2017-07-04 PDF 30,36 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Are Some Languages Better than Others? R. M. W. Dixon This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for instance, that because German has three genders and French only two, German is a better language in this respect? Jarawara,... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2016-04-28 PDF 21,86 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Grammar of Knowledge Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages.The book investigates... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2014-02-28 PDF 31,58 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Possession and Ownership Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon Possession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of humankind. Possessive... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2012-12-06 PDF 35,23 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3 R. M. W. Dixon Basic Linguistic Theory provides a fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In crystal-clear prose, R. M. W. Dixon describes how to go about doing linguistics. He show how grammatical... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2012-05-25 PDF 48,59 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 1 R. M. W. Dixon In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis.In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2009-10-01 PDF 37,65 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 2 R. M. W. Dixon In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis.In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he describes how best to go about... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2009-10-01 PDF 36,44 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Semantics of Clause Linking Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2009-08-06 PDF 40,08 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , R. M. W. Dixon Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use, and in the forms they employ to express these. Such resemblances may be the consequence of universal characteristics of language, of chance or coincidence, of the... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2006-03-02 PDF 48,59 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies A Semantic Approach to English Grammar R. M. W. Dixon This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its... Editeur : OUP Oxford Parution : 2005-07-01 PDF 49,81 €

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