Bøker av R. M. W. Dixon
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Australian Languages
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished...
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The Amazonian Languages
The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages...
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Australian Languages
Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished...
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Changing Valency
This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the...
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The Amazonian Languages
The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages...
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The Rise and Fall of Languages
This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of...
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Ergativity
Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of the world’s languages show ergative properties, and pose...
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