R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011), and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP, 2005). His theoretical works include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? And other Essays on Semantics and Syntax (De Gruyter, 1982), Ergativity (CUP, 1994), the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12), and most recently Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (OUP 2014).

An approachable and exemplary model of high-quality linguistic research and of communicating the value of such research to a broader public.

• 1: Background Part I: Genders and Classifiers 2: Edible and the other genders in Dyirbal 3: Classifiers in Yidiñ Part II: Kin Relations and How to Talk with Them 4: The Dyirbal kinship system 5: Jalnguy, the 'mother-in-law' speech style in Dyirbal 6: The origin of 'mother-in-law' vocabulary in Dyirbal and Yidiñ Part III: Grammatical Studies 7: Comparing the syntactic orientations of Dyirbal and Yidi 8: Serial verb constructions in Dyirbal 9: Complementation strategies in Dyirbal 10: Grammatical reanalysis in Warrgamay Part IV: Variation, Contact, and Change 11: Dyirbal grammar: Variation across dialects 12: Dyirbal dialectology: Lexical Variation 13: Compensatory phonological changes 14: A study of language contact Part V: Languages Fading Away 15: The last change in Yidiñ 16: The gradual decline of Dyirbal Acknowledgements References Index

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011), and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP, 2005). His theoretical works include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? And other Essays on Semantics and Syntax (De Gruyter, 1982), Ergativity (CUP, 1994), the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12), and most recently Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (OUP 2014).

An approachable and exemplary model of high-quality linguistic research and of communicating the value of such research to a broader public.

• 1: Background Part I: Genders and Classifiers 2: Edible and the other genders in Dyirbal 3: Classifiers in Yidiñ Part II: Kin Relations and How to Talk with Them 4: The Dyirbal kinship system 5: Jalnguy, the 'mother-in-law' speech style in Dyirbal 6: The origin of 'mother-in-law' vocabulary in Dyirbal and Yidiñ Part III: Grammatical Studies 7: Comparing the syntactic orientations of Dyirbal and Yidi 8: Serial verb constructions in Dyirbal 9: Complementation strategies in Dyirbal 10: Grammatical reanalysis in Warrgamay Part IV: Variation, Contact, and Change 11: Dyirbal grammar: Variation across dialects 12: Dyirbal dialectology: Lexical Variation 13: Compensatory phonological changes 14: A study of language contact Part V: Languages Fading Away 15: The last change in Yidiñ 16: The gradual decline of Dyirbal Acknowledgements References Index

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiñ), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011), and A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (OUP, 2005). His theoretical works include Where have All the Adjectives Gone? And other Essays on Semantics and Syntax (De Gruyter, 1982), Ergativity (CUP, 1994), the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (OUP, 2010-12), and most recently Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (OUP 2014).

An approachable and exemplary model of high-quality linguistic research and of communicating the value of such research to a broader public.

• 1: Background Part I: Genders and Classifiers 2: Edible and the other genders in Dyirbal 3: Classifiers in Yidiñ Part II: Kin Relations and How to Talk with Them 4: The Dyirbal kinship system 5: Jalnguy, the 'mother-in-law' speech style in Dyirbal 6: The origin of 'mother-in-law' vocabulary in Dyirbal and Yidiñ Part III: Grammatical Studies 7: Comparing the syntactic orientations of Dyirbal and Yidi 8: Serial verb constructions in Dyirbal 9: Complementation strategies in Dyirbal 10: Grammatical reanalysis in Warrgamay Part IV: Variation, Contact, and Change 11: Dyirbal grammar: Variation across dialects 12: Dyirbal dialectology: Lexical Variation 13: Compensatory phonological changes 14: A study of language contact Part V: Languages Fading Away 15: The last change in Yidiñ 16: The gradual decline of Dyirbal Acknowledgements References Index