The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages belonging to around twenty ...

Reprint. Originally published in 1983, U. of Queensland Press. Dixon (linguistics, Australian National U.) provides readers with an accessible and interesting account of his ...

Professor Dixon presents a comprehensive study of the indigenous languages of Australia.

Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of the world's languages show ergative properties, and pose considerable difficulties for ...

A different approach to the theories on language evolution and change.

This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and meanings. It shows how languages differ ...