36.1276, Books: A New Grammar of Dyirbal: Dixon (2025)

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Date: 15-Apr-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: A New Grammar of Dyirbal: Dixon (2025)


Title: A New Grammar of Dyirbal
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-new-grammar-of-dyirbal-9780198944317?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon

New in paperback (9780198944317)

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology




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