19: Non-spatial Setting 20: Number Systems 21: Negation 22: Reflexive and Reciprocal Constructions 23: Pivots, Passives,and Antipassives 24: Causatives 25: Applicatives 26: Comparative Constructions 27: Questions 28: Language and the World: explanations now and needed Appendix
R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at the Cairns
Institute, James Cook University. His pioneering fieldwork on
Australian Aboriginal languages began in the 1960s and led, among
many other works, to grammars of Dyirbal and Yidin, culminating in
Australian Languages: Their nature and development (CUP 2002). His
other books include A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (U Chicago
Press 1988), Ergativity (CUP, 1994), The Rise and Fall
of Languages (CUP 1997), The Jarawara Language of Southern
Amazonia (OUP 2004), which was winner of the 2004-5 Leonard
Bloomfield Prize, A Semantic Approach to English Grammar
(OUP 2005), I am a Linguist (Brill 2011), and the first
two volumes of Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP 2010).
There can be little doubt that Basic Linguistic Theory is a
valuable addition to the linguistic literature, both as a broadly
conceived typological study and as an inspiring guide to grammar
writers ... BLT covers the principal parts of grammar and probably
more extensively so than any other single book of its kind. *
Steffen Haurholm-Larsen, Studies in Language *
These books are monumental and destined to become classics,
equatable to the two volumes entitled Language by Sapir (1921) and
Bloomfield (1933), and to Givon's Syntax, volumes 1 (1984) and 2
(1990) but in each case surpassing them in scope, detail, rigor,
and coherence. Dixon presents a complete, fully articulated, and
cohesive explication of grammar, with extensive elaboration on
every major grammatical structure found in the world's languages,
as well as many minor ones.... This is a masterwork ... a lasting
reference for grammar writers, typologists, grammatical theorists,
and all those fascinated by the complexities of linguistic systems
and grammatical analysis. * Carol Genetti,Language *
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