Frontmatter -- Part A -- 1. Where have all the adjectives gone? -- Part B Nuclear and non-nuclear verbs -- 2. A method of semantic description -- 3. The semantics of giving -- Part C -- 4. Syntactic orientation as a semantic property --...

In Basic Linguistic Theory R. M. W. Dixon provides a new and fundamental characterization of the nature of human languages and a comprehensive guide to their description and analysis. In three clearly written and accessible volumes, he...

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...