A New Grammar of Dyirbal

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at Central Queensland University, Cairns Campus, and has previously held positions at University College London, Harvard University, the Australian National University, University of California at Santa Cruz, La Trobe University, and James Cook University. His pioneering fieldwork on Indigenous Australian languages began in the 1960s and led, among many other works, to The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland (CUP 1972); he has also written grammars of Yidiñ, Warrgamay, Boumaa Fijian, and Jarawara. His many other books with OUP include the three-volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (2010-12), Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (2014), Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders (2015; paperback 2020), Are Some Languages Better than Others? (2016; paperback 2018), and English Prepositions: Their Meanings and Uses (2021).

A New Grammar of Dyirbal is a monumental contribution. It offers a comprehensive, insightful, and accessible portrait of oneof the world's most fascinating languages, ensuring its analysis and its data will endure for generations to come.

• Preface Abbreviations and conventions Dialects and data 1: Overview 2: The S/O pivot 3: Nominal morphology 4: Questions 5: The number system 6: Relative clauses 7: Possession 8: Verbal structure and the consequence suffix 9: The potentiality and caution suffixes 10: The apprehensive suffix 11: The applicative/causative derivation 12: Valency-reducing derivations: antipassives, reflexive, and reciprocal 13: Noun markers, demonstratives, and verb markers-base part 14: Noun markers, demonstratives, and verb markers-ancillaries 15: Verbless clauses 16: Particles 17: Clitics Appendix: Ambitransitive verbs and like matters Text 61: How the black goanna changed into a crocodile References Vocabulary Inventory of affixes and clitics Index