A New Grammar Of Dyirbal
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A New Grammar Of Dyirbal
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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
A New Grammar Of Dyirbal written by R. M. W. Dixon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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 language, extending and refining the descriptions in light of more recent theoretical advances. The resulting A New Grammar of Dyirbal offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the language, reanalysed in myriad ways and drawing on an extensive corpus of texts. Among its many new features are further discussion of the applicative/causative derivation; a fresh focus on the role of the pervasive 'pivot', the syntactic linking of S and O functions; a detailed account of the two antipassives and their semantic contrast and phonological conditioning; and an extended account of relative clauses. The volume is accompanied by a companion website hosting the full set of textual data on which the grammar is based, as well as a thesaurus/dictionary of nouns, adjectives, and verbs across ten dialects of Dyirbal.
A New Grammar Of Dyirbal
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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
A New Grammar Of Dyirbal written by R. M. W. Dixon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with Djirbal language categories.
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 language, extending and refining the descriptions in light of more recent theoretical advances. The resulting A New Grammar of Dyirbal offers a comprehensive contemporary grammar of the language, reanalysed in myriad ways and drawing on an extensive corpus of texts. Among its many new features are further discussion of the applicative/causative derivation; a fresh focus on the role of the pervasive 'pivot', the syntactic linking of S and O functions; a detailed account of the two antipassives and their semantic contrast and phonological conditioning; and an extended account of relative clauses. The volume is accompanied by a companion website hosting the full set of textual data on which the grammar is based, as well as a thesaurus/dictionary of nouns, adjectives, and verbs across ten dialects of Dyirbal.
Edible Gender Mother In Law Style And Other Grammatical Wonders
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Author : R. M. W Dixon
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-05-21
Edible Gender Mother In Law Style And Other Grammatical Wonders written by R. M. W Dixon and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book builds on R. M. W. Dixon's most influential work on the indigenous languages of Australia over the past forty years, from his trailblazing grammar of Dyirbal published in 1972 to later grammars of Yidiñ (1971) and Warrgamay (1981). Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders includes further studies on these languages, and the interrelations between them. Following an account of the anthropological and linguistic background, part I provides a thorough examination of, and comparison between, the gender system in Dyirbal (one of whose members refers to 'edible vegetables') and the set of nominal classifiers in Yidiñ. The chapters in part II describe Dyirbal's unusual kinship system and the 'mother-in-law' language style, and examines the origins of 'mother-in-law' vocabulary in Dyirbal and in Yidiñ. There are four grammatical studies in part III, dealing with syntactic orientation, serial verb constructions, complementation strategies, and grammatical reanalysis. Part IV covers grammatical and lexical variation across the dialects of Dyirbal, compensatory phonological changes, and a study of language contact across the Cairns rainforest region. The two final chapters, in Part V, recount the sad stories of how the Yidiñ and Dyirbal languages slowly slipped into oblivion.
The Dyirbal Language Of North Queensland
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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1972-12-14
The Dyirbal Language Of North Queensland written by R. M. W. Dixon and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972-12-14 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they lived in harmony with each other and with their environment. Over one hundred years ago many of them were shot and poisoned by European invaders. Those allowed to survive have been barely tolerated tenants on their own lands, and have had their beliefs, habits and language help up to ridicule and scorn. In the last decade they have seen their remaining forests taken and cleared by an American company, with the destruction of sites whose remembered antiquity is many thousands of years older than the furthest event in the shallow history of their desecrators. The survivors of the three tribes have stood up to these diversities with dignity and humour. They continue to look forward to the day when they may again be allowed to live in peaceful possession of some of their own lands, and may be accorded a respect that they have been denied, but which they have been forcibly made to accord to others.
A Grammar Of Yidin
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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1977-10-06
A Grammar Of Yidin written by R. M. W. Dixon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-10-06 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidin, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a 'mixed ergative' type that cannot easily be accommodated in terms of standard syntactic theory.
A Semantic Approach To English Grammar
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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-06-30
A Semantic Approach To English Grammar written by R. M. W. Dixon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Showing how grammar helps people communicate and looking at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate, this work reviews the main points of English syntax and discusses English verbs in terms of their semantic types.
The Dyirbal Language Of North Queensland
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Author : Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Dyirbal Language Of North Queensland written by Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Dyirbal language categories.
Introduction, Grammar & Phonology sections superseded by greatly revised & enlarged account in authors 1972 book of same title (Cambridge U.P.); Semantics (pp.230-433) gives detailed account of lexical correspondences between everyday vocabulary & mother-in-law or avoidance vocabulary; theoretical discussion of the general form of a semantic description, combining the componential & definitional approaches; detailed semantic descriptions of individual verbs, adverbals, adjectives, time words & nouns; note on procedure followed in preparing grammatical & semantic description (omitted from 1972 published revision)
Young People S Dyirbal
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Author : Annette Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-02
Young People S Dyirbal written by Annette Schmidt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with Foreign Language Study categories.
In 1972 when R. M. W. Dixon's classic grammar, The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland, was published, under thirty speakers of the 'traditional' language remained. Now only some of their children and grandchildren use the language; these younger people speak a simplified version. In this impressive empirical survey, Annette Schmidt analyses the changes that have taken place in the Dyirbal spoken by that last generation of its speakers at the levels of phonology, morphology, syntax, the lexicon and semantics. She also provides a detailed account of the socio-linguistic setting of the community and the attitudes towards Dyirbal among younger speakers, their elders and English speakers.
A New Approach To English Grammar On Semantic Principles
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Author : Robert M. W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
A New Approach To English Grammar On Semantic Principles written by Robert M. W. Dixon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This work offers a fresh approach to grammar, arguing that a speaker "codes" a meaning into grammatical forms in order to communicate them to a hearer. Investigating the interrelation of grammar and meaning, Dixon uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words. He offers a review of some of the main points of English syntax, as well as a discussion of English verbs in terms of semantic types. Finally, he examines five specific grammatical topics: complement clauses in detail; complement clauses, transitivity and causatives; passive construction; promotion of a non-subject to subject slot; and the relation between verb constructions.
A New Grammar Of The English Language
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Author : Daniel Fenning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1771
A New Grammar Of The English Language written by Daniel Fenning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1771 with English language categories.