Robert M. W. Dixon

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Robert M. W. Dixon's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Melbourne
Bachelors Linguistics University of Melbourne

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Malcolm Ward "Bob" Dixon is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland. He is also Deputy Director of The Language and Culture Research Centre at JCU. Doctor of Letters , he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa by JCU in 2018. Fellow of British Academy; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, he is one of three living linguists to be specifically mentioned in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by Peter Matthews .

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The Dyirbal language of North Queensland (1972) (707)
Where Have all the Adjectives Gone (1977) (638)
The languages of Australia (1980) (547)
The rise and fall of languages (1997) (541)
Where have all the adjectives gone? and other essays in semantics and syntax (1982) (411)
Ergativity: Index of languages and language families (1994) (373)
A new approach to Eng-lish Grammar on semantic principles (1991) (311)
Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages (1980) (249)
Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development (2002) (246)
A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (1977) (245)
The rise and fall of languages: Acknowledgements (1997) (228)
A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (2005) (213)
The Amazonian languages (1999) (204)
Demonstratives: A cross-linguistic typology (2003) (183)
Changing valency Case studies in transitivity: A typology of causatives: form, syntax and meaning (2000) (181)
Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics (2006) (176)
Serial Verb Constructions: a cross-linguistic typology (2006) (166)
Adjective classes : a cross-linguistic typology (2004) (163)
Studies in evidentiality (2003) (158)
Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity (2010) (156)
Handbook of Australian languages (1982) (152)
The Cambridge handbook of linguistic typology (2017) (150)
Dependencies between grammatical systems (1998) (144)
Non-canonical marking of subjects and objects (2001) (135)
Word : a cross-linguistic typology (2003) (121)
Noun Classes and Noun Classification in Typological Perspective (1986) (117)
The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia (2004) (111)
Complement clauses and complementation strategies in typological perspective (2006) (101)
A Grammar of Yidin (1977) (90)
Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 2 (1981) (81)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: Frontmatter (1977) (76)
Word: Word: a typological framework (2003) (70)
The grammar of knowledge : a cross-linguistic typology (2014) (70)
Basic Linguistic Theory: grammatical topics (2010) (68)
Communication and culture : readings in the codes of human interaction (1967) (65)
Grammars In Contact: a cross-linguistic typology (2007) (63)
Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (2014) (57)
The grammar of English phrasal verbs (1982) (55)
Evidentials and Areal Typology: A Case Study from Amazonia. (1998) (54)
Field linguistics: a minor manual (2007) (52)
Yir-Yoront lexicon : sketch and dictionary of an Australian language (1994) (52)
The semantics of clause linking in typological perspective (2009) (47)
Are Some Languages Better than Others (2016) (46)
A Typology Of Argument-Determined Constructions (2011) (46)
Possession and ownership : a cross-linguistic typology (2013) (45)
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Basics of a language (2014) (44)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker (1983) (44)
Changing valency Case studies in transitivity: Introduction (2000) (43)
Words of our country : stories, place names and vocabulary in Yidiny, the Aboriginal language of the Cairns-Yarrabah region (1993) (37)
The Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (2009) (34)
Studies in ergativity (1987) (33)
Comparative constructions: a cross-linguistic typology (2008) (33)
The Semantic Basis of Syntactic Properties (1984) (32)
Basic Linguistic Theory: methodology (2010) (31)
Basic Linguistic Theory: further grammatical topics (2012) (29)
The Semitic Language Family (2017) (28)
The Origin of « Mother-in-Law Vocabulary » in Two Australian Languages (1990) (26)
Complementation: a cross-linguistic typology (2006) (23)
Categories of the Noun Phrase in Jarawara (2000) (22)
Feeling the need : The borrowing of Cariban functional categories into Mawayana (Arawak) (2006) (22)
Spotting the fake: C. E. W. Bean, Frank Hurley and the making of the 1923 photographic record of the war (2007) (21)
Changing valency Case studies in transitivity: Contents (2000) (21)
Fusional Development of Gender Marking in Jarawara Possessed Nouns (1995) (20)
Languages of Cape York (1980) (20)
Proto-Arawá phonology (2004) (18)
The Honey-Ant Men's Love Song and Other Aboriginal Song Poems (1990) (18)
What is Language? A New Approach to Linguistic Description (1967) (18)
A changing language situation: The decline of Dyirbal 1963–1989 (1991) (17)
What was Travel Writing? Frank Hurley and the Media Contexts of Early Twentieth-Century Australian Travel Writing (2007) (16)
Compensating phonological changes: An example from the Northern dialects of Dyirbal (1990) (16)
Possession and Ownership (2013) (15)
Linguistic science and logic (1966) (15)
Deriving verbs in English (2008) (14)
Relative Clauses and Possessive Phrases in Two Australian Languages (1969) (14)
Further Grammatical Topics (2012) (13)
THE DYIRBAL KINSHIP SYSTEM (1989) (13)
Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders: Studies in Dyirbal, Yidin, and Warrgamay (2015) (13)
Origin Legends and Linguistic Relationships (1996) (12)
Introduction [to Authority and influence: Australian literary criticism 1950-2000] (2001) (11)
Little Eva at Moonlight Creek, and other Aboriginal song poems (1994) (11)
The aboriginal language of Melbourne and other grammatical sketches (1995) (10)
Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 3 (1983) (10)
I am a Linguist (2010) (10)
Handbook of Australian Languages: Volume 1 (1979) (9)
Pictures at an exhibition: Frank Hurley's in the grip of the polar pack ice (1919) (2003) (9)
Language at Large: Essays on Syntax and Semantics (2011) (9)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: Abbreviations and conventions (1972) (8)
Comparative Constructions in English (2005) (8)
Corrections and comments concerning Heath’s ‘Is Dyirbal ergative?’ (1979) (7)
Aesthetics: A Cognitive Account (1986) (6)
3. The semantics of giving (1973) (6)
Clitics in English (2007) (6)
Australian Languages: Contents (2002) (6)
Changing valency Case studies in transitivity: Preface (2000) (6)
A Logical Statement of Grammatical Theory: As Constained in Halliday's 'Categories of the Theory of Grammar' (1963) (6)
A Typological Overview of Aymaran and Quechuan Language Structure (2017) (6)
Naive linguistic explanation (1992) (6)
The Two Adjective Classes in Manange (2004) (5)
Typology of sign languages (2016) (5)
Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurley's Synchronized Lecture Entertainments (2006) (5)
The word in Cup'ik (2003) (5)
Serial Verb Constructions in Dyirbal (2012) (5)
Introduction: Linguistic Typology – Setting the Scene (2017) (5)
Internal reconstruction of tense-modal suffixes in Jarawara (2001) (4)
Two Conformal Mappings (1993) (4)
The non-visible marker in Dyirbal (2014) (4)
Grammatical reanalysis: An example of linguistic change from Warrgamay (north Queensland) (1981) (4)
The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941 (2012) (4)
How languages work (2016) (4)
Annotated Bibliography of the Arawá Language Family to 1950 (2006) (3)
The grammar of English pronouns (2017) (3)
Roman Jakobson and the two-dollar bills (2007) (3)
The Semantic Basis For A Typology (2011) (3)
Shooting in Occupied Space: Frank Hurley in the Middle East, 1940–46 (2014) (3)
Summary report: Linguistic change and reconstruction in the Australian language family (1991) (3)
The Eskimo-Aleut Language Family (2017) (3)
Australia's Original Languages: An Introduction (2020) (3)
The articles in English. (2006) (3)
Serial verb constructions: a cross-linguistic typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology, Vol. 2) (2006) (3)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: DYIRBAL LOGIC (1972) (2)
A TREND IN SEMANTICS (1963) (2)
Australian Languages: Phonology (2002) (2)
Approaches to Motion Event Typology (2017) (2)
Ground zero: Nicholas Rothwell's natural history of destruction (2011) (2)
Chapter Four. Non-Ergative Associations Between S And O (2011) (2)
Chapter Thirteen. Zero And Nothing In Jarawara (2011) (2)
Lingua mentalis: The semantics of natural language: Anna Wierzbicka, Academic Press, Sydney/New York, 1980, xi, 368 pp. (1981) (2)
Grammatical sketches of Bunuba, Ndjébbana and Kugu Nganhcara (2000) (2)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Loss (2011) (2)
The essence of ‘word’ (2020) (2)
4. Syntactic orientation as a semantic property (1976) (2)
The Iroquoian Language Family (2017) (2)
The Nature and Development of Australian Languages (1979) (2)
Wargamay ; The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri ; Watjarri ; Margany and Gunya ; Tasmanian (1981) (2)
“A TREND IN SEMANTICS”: REJOINDER (1964) (1)
Handbook of Amazonian Languages . Ed. by Desmond C. Derbyshire & Geoffrey K. Pullum (1992) (1)
‘THE TULLY DIALECTS’ ARE DYIRBAL (1992) (1)
Nicholas Evans. A grammar of Kayardild, with historical-comparative notes on Tangkic (1998) (1)
Words within words (2020) (1)
Ergativity: Intra-clausal or morphological ergativity (1994) (1)
Grammars in Contact: a cross-linguistic typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology Vol. 4) (2006) (1)
Word: Index of languages and language families (2003) (1)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Contents (2011) (1)
Australian Aboriginal Words in Dictionaries: Response to Nash (2009) (1)
Five Versions of a Dyirbal Legend (2014) (1)
What is language (1965) (1)
Speaking Greek in Diaspora: language contact and language change (2009) (1)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES (1972) (1)
Chapter Eighteen. Australian Aboriginal Word In Dictionaries—A History (2011) (1)
The Athabaskan (Dene) Language Family (2017) (1)
Language contact in the Cairns rainforest region (2009) (1)
Summarizing Clauses in Jarawara (2018) (1)
The Unmasking of English Dictionaries (2018) (1)
Frans Plank (ed.), Ergativity: towards a theory of grammatical relations . London: Academic Press. 1979. Pp. xiv+ 569. (1981) (1)
Handbook of Australian Languages: 3 Volumes (set) (1979) (1)
M.C. Escher: Art and Science ed. by H.S.M. Coxeter (review) (2017) (1)
Djapu, a Yolngu dialect, Yukulta, Uradhi, Nyawaygi (1983) (1)
Phonological Word and Grammatical Word (2020) (1)
Possession and also Ownership - Vignettes (2013) (1)
How We Understand Art. A Cognitive Developmental Account of Aesthetic Experience by Michael Parsons (review) (2017) (1)
Problems in dyirbal dialectology (1982) (1)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Lots of Linguistic Expertise (2011) (0)
Introduction [to The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941] (2011) (0)
The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912–1941: The Torres Strait and Papua Expedition Diaries (December 1920–August 1921) (2011) (0)
The central spatial prepositions (2021) (0)
The core of Pintupi grammar By K. C. and L. E. Hansen (review) (2015) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: SYNTAX (1977) (0)
Care-ful-ly, side-ways, home-wards, crab-fashion: Making new adverbs (2014) (0)
Fijian, English and some novels (2011) (0)
Ultra-patriotic, extra-special, pre-election pseudo-promise: Keeping the same word class (2014) (0)
Chapter Sixteen. Features Of The Noun Phrase In English (2011) (0)
Words altogether (2020) (0)
William McGregor, A functional grammar of Gooniyandi . Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1990. Pp. xx + 618. (1991) (0)
Symmetry — An Analytic Treatment by J. Lee Kavanau, and: Curves and Symmetry by J. Lee Kavanau, and: Structural Equation Geometry by J. Lee Kavanau (review) (2017) (0)
Handbook of Regular Patterns: An Introduction to Symmetry in Two Dimensions by Peter S. Stevens (review) (2017) (0)
The Languages of Australia: Suggestions for further reading (2011) (0)
A study of language contact (2015) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: THE LANGUAGE AND ITS SPEAKERS (1977) (0)
9. Semantic neutralisation for phonological reasons (1982) (0)
Eager-ness, bidd-ing, pay-ment, owner-ship, satisf-action: Making new nouns (2014) (0)
The Languages of Australia: Glossary (2011) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: APPENDIX: PREVIOUS WORK ON YIDIN (1977) (0)
Australian Languages: Prefixing and fusion (2002) (0)
Australian Languages: Bound pronouns (2002) (0)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: LEXICON (1972) (0)
The Forms of Colour by Karl Gerstner (review) (1988) (0)
The Delegate From Tasmania (2010) (0)
Classifiers in Yidiñ (2015) (0)
The semantics of the Dyirbal avoidance style (2021) (0)
Word: List of contributors (2003) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: TEXTS (1977) (0)
Genetic subgroups and small linguistic areas (2002) (0)
Linguistic Society of America Dependencies between Grammatical Systems (2007) (0)
What is linguistics? — a journey of discovery (2011) (0)
The integration of language and society (2021) (0)
Ergativity: Language change (1994) (0)
Ergative/accusative morphological and syntactic profiles (2002) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: “You never talk it to me!” (2011) (0)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: PREHISTORY (1972) (0)
Connection and adjacency (2021) (0)
The Science Of Linguistics, And Other Approaches To The Study Of Language (2010) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: Introduction (1997) (0)
The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912–1941: The Great War Diary (August 1917–August 1918) (2011) (0)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: PHONOLOGY (1972) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: The family tree model (1997) (0)
Gradual loss of a gender contrast (2010) (0)
Twice and Constituency (2011) (0)
Ergativity: The category of ‘subject’ (1994) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: Summary and prospects (1997) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: LEXICON (1977) (0)
Daly Family Languages, Australia@@@The Malak Malak Language, Daly River (Western Arnhem Land) (1979) (0)
The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912–1941: Tour Diary – In the Grip of the Polar Pack-Ice (December 1919–January 1920) (2011) (0)
Ergativity: Syntactically based and semantically based marking (1994) (0)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: Preface (1972) (0)
The integration of language and society : initial orientation (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: “I think I like that language best” (2011) (0)
Word: List of abbreviations (2003) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: The punctuated equilibrium model (1997) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: “Drink this!” (2011) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: Preliminaries (1997) (0)
Classification of Australian languages (2011) (0)
Grammatical reanalysis in Warrgamay (2015) (0)
Publications on Australian languages, 1981 (1982) (0)
LIST OF MAPS (1997) (0)
Comments on the Cover Illustration, Moon (1984) (0)
LIST OF DYIRBAL AFFIXES (1972) (0)
Comments on Carrier on Art versus Gombrich on Art (1986) (0)
The origin of ‘mother-in-law’ vocabulary in Dyirbal and Yidiñ (2015) (0)
Supporting artists (2021) (0)
R. M. W. Dixon, The languages of Australia . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xii + 201. (1982) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: “It's not” (2011) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Pronunciation of Aboriginal Words (2011) (0)
Phrasal verbs (2021) (0)
TRANSFERS OF STIMULUS FUNCTION DURING ROULETTE WAGERING: Roulette Wagering (2017) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: Linguistic areas and diffusion (1997) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Setting Off (2011) (0)
Ergativity: Appendix: A note on theoretical models (1994) (0)
The Languages of Australia: Speech and song styles (2011) (0)
Australian Languages: References (2002) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Tribal and Language Names (2011) (0)
Inter-clausal or syntactic ergativity (1994) (0)
Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe by Edward Harrison (review) (2017) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: More on proto-languages (1997) (0)
Criteria—affixes, semi-affixes, and compounds (2014) (0)
Into The Amazonian Jungle (2010) (0)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: DEEP SYNTAX (1972) (0)
‘Meaningless chatter’: Hybridisation in two north Queensland texts (1994) (0)
Un-expected, mis-judged, dis-organized counter-revolution: Making negative words (2014) (0)
The mainstays (2021) (0)
Chapter Five. Dependencies Between Grammatical Systems (2011) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: “Those are good for you” (2011) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: DEEP SYNTAX (1977) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: Today's priorities (1997) (0)
The language situation in Australia (2002) (0)
Grammatical roles and relations By F. R. Palmer (review) (2015) (0)
Australian Languages: Case and other nominal suffixes (2002) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: References (1997) (0)
Pronouns with Transferred Reference (2011) (0)
Moon-like, death-ly, angr-y, mysteri-ous, memor-able : Making new adjectives (2014) (0)
The semantics of clause linking in Boumaa Fijian (2009) (0)
Yir-Yoront lexicon: Sketch and dictionary of an Australian language By Barry Alpher (review) (2015) (0)
The Languages of Australia: The role of language in Aboriginal Australian society today (2011) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: VOCABULARY (1977) (0)
Australian Languages: Summary and conclusion (2002) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: Recent history (1997) (0)
Travelling Mass-Media Circus: Frank Hurley and Colonial Modernity (2012) (0)
The Essence of Linguistic Analysis (2021) (0)
The last change in Yidiñ (2015) (0)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: DYIRBAL: THE LANGUAGE AND ITS SPEAKERS (1972) (0)
“Communications from Below”: Scalar Transformations in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) and Steven Carroll’s A World of Other People (2013) (2017) (0)
The Languages of Australia: Vocabulary (2011) (0)
1. Delocutive verbs in dyirbal (1977) (0)
The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912–1941: Sledging Diary, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (November 1912–January 1913) (2011) (0)
The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912–1941: The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Diary (November 1914–April 1917) (2011) (0)
Australian Languages: Generic nouns, classifiers, genders and noun classes (2002) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: “Of course we'll keep in touch” (2011) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: “Time to get back to wife” (2011) (0)
Comments on “The Space Chronometer” (2017) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: Modes of change (1997) (0)
Edible and the other genders in Dyirbal (2015) (0)
Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.), Portraits of Linguists: A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics . Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1966. Two volumes: xvi + 580 pp & vii + 605 pp. (1968) (0)
The Languages of Australia: Word classes (2011) (0)
A Grammar of Warrongo by Tasaku Tsunoda (review) (2015) (0)
The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912–1941: The Papua Expedition Diary (August 1922–January 1923) (2011) (0)
Temporal (2021) (0)
List of languages and language groups (2002) (0)
Chapter Ten. Naive Linguistic Explanation (2011) (0)
An ideal language (2016) (0)
The Dravidian Language Family (2017) (0)
Australian Languages: Modelling the language situation (2002) (0)
Ergativity: The rationale for ergativity (1994) (0)
Australian Languages: Vocabulary (2002) (0)
Be-feather, smart-en, em-power, beauti-fy, moral-ize: Making new verbs (2014) (0)
The rise and fall of languages: Appendix – where the comparative method discovery procedure fails (1997) (0)
The Languages of Australia: Phonology (2011) (0)
Grammatical roles (2021) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: Plate section (1977) (0)
The Imperative Paradigm of Korowai, a language of West Papua (2017) (0)
Jalnguy, the ‘mother-in-law’ speech style in Dyirbal (2015) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: “This way be bit more better” (2011) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: MORPHOLOGY (1977) (0)
Johannes Bechert, Giuliano Bernini & Claude Blindant (eds.), Towards a typology of European languages . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990. Pp. x + 388. (1992) (0)
The Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912–1941: The World War II and Middle East Diaries (September 1940–October 1941) (2011) (0)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: VOCABULARY (1972) (0)
The Languages of Australia: Tribe and language (2011) (0)
2. A method of semantic description (1982) (0)
Symmetry: An Analytic Treatment@@@Curves and Symmetry@@@Structural Equation Geometry (1985) (0)
What Dyirbal uses instead of commands (2017) (0)
Comparing the syntactic orientations of Dyirbal and Yidiñ (2015) (0)
Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Full of Unforgettable Characters (2011) (0)
The gradual decline of Dyirbal (2015) (0)
The limits of a language (2016) (0)
Grammatical diffusion in Australia: free and bound pronouns (2007) (0)
how advanced is areal linguistics (2004) (0)
The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: PREVIOUS WORK ON DYIRBAL (1972) (0)
A Grammar of Yidiɲ: Preface (1977) (0)

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