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      We Used to Eat People: Revelations of a Fiji Island Traditional Village

      R.M.W. Dixon

      Living in a reed hut on Taveuni–Fiji’s garden isle – the author studied the native language and carefully-observed traditions until he was accepted as a member of the village. Daily…

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      I am a Linguist: With a foreword by Peter Matthews

      R.M.W. Dixon

      The story of extended linguistic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia, Fiji and Amazonia, linked to theoretical study of the nature of human language, also throwing in detective novels, science fiction stories…

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      The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia

      R.M.W. Dixon (The Cairns Institute, James Cook University)

      The first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, by one of the world’s leading linguists.

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      Language at Large: Essays on Syntax and Semantics

      Alexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon

      The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in…

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      The Art of Language

      This volume explores different ideas of what language does and what is done with language, considering different ways in which hospitality and humanity are expressed, knowledge is constructed, and asking…

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      Language at Large: Essays on Syntax and Semantics

      Alexandra Aikhenvald,R.M.W. Dixon

      The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in…

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      The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia

      Robert M.W. Dixon

      Presents an account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest. The language has only two open lexical classes, noun and verb, and a closed adjective…

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      I am a Linguist: With a foreword by Peter Matthews

      R.M.W. Dixon,R M W Dixon

      The story of extended linguistic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia, Fiji and Amazonia, linked to theoretical study of the nature of human language, also throwing in detective novels, science fiction stories…

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      Adjective Classes: A Cross-linguistic Typology

      Shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. This book throws light on the nature and classification of adjectives. It also considers the nature and…

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      Serial Verb Constructions: A Cross-linguistic Typology

      A serial verb construction is a sequence of verbs which acts together as one. This oustanding book is the first to study the phenomenon across languages of different typological and…

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      Adjective Classes: A Cross-linguistic Typology

      Shows that every language has an adjective class and how such classes vary. Thirteen scholars report original research on languages from North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and…

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      Serial Verb Constructions: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

      Studies the phenomenon across languages of different typological and genetic profiles. This book follows a unified typological approach and avoids formalisms. It is of interest to students, at graduate level…

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      Complementation: A Cross-linguistic Typology

      Explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world, their grammatical properties, and meanings. This book is useful to scholars of typology, language universals, syntax…

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      Grammars in Contact: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

      This book examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. It contains an encyclopaedic introduction and twelve subsequent chapters, which analyse the effects of language…

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      Complementation: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

      This book shows how languages differ in the grammatical properties of complement clauses and in the types of verbs which take them, and explores the strategies deployed by languages which…

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      Grammars in Contact: A Cross-linguistic Typology

      Examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation. This book contains an encyclopaedic introduction, which sets out a general theory of contact-induced change, and twelve…

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