{"product_id":"basic-linguistic-theory-volume-1-methodology-9780199571062","title":"Basic Linguistic Theory, Volume 1: Methodology","description":"In \u003cem\u003eBasic Linguistic Theory\u003c\/em\u003e 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 describes how best to go about doing linguistics, the most\u003cbr\u003esatisfactory and profitable ways to work, and the pitfalls to avoid. In the first volume he addresses the methodology for recording, analysing, and comparing languages. He argues that grammatical structures and rules should be worked out inductively on the basis of evidence, explaining in detail the\u003cbr\u003esteps by which an attested grammar and lexicon can built up from observed utterances. He shows how the grammars and words of one language may be compared to others of the same or different families, explains the methods involved in cross-linguistic parametric analyses, and describes how to interpret\u003cbr\u003ethe results. Volume 2 and volume 3 (to be published in 2011) offer in-depth tours of underlying principles of grammatical organization, as well as many of the facts of grammatical variation. 'The task of the linguist, ' Professor Dixon writes, 'is to explain the nature of human languages - each\u003cbr\u003eviewed as an integrated system - together with an explanation of why each language is the way it is, allied to the further scientific pursuits of prediction and evaluation.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eBasic Linguistic Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is the triumphant outcome of a lifetime's thinking about every aspect and manifestation of language and immersion in linguistic fieldwork. It is a one-stop text for undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, as well as for those in neighbouring disciplines, such as\u003cbr\u003epsychology and anthropology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. M. W. Dixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 6.60w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199571062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University. His pioneering fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages began in the 1960s and led, among many other works, to grammars of Dyirbal and Yidiñ, culminating in \u003cem\u003eAustralian languages: Their nature and development\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP\u003cbr\u003e2002). His other books include \u003cem\u003eA Grammar of Boumaa Fijian\u003c\/em\u003e (U Chicago Press 1988), \u003cem\u003eErgativity\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 1994), \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Languages\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP 1997), \u003cem\u003eThe Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2004), which was winner of the 2004-5 Leonard Bloomfield Prize, and \u003cem\u003eA Semantic Approach to English\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrammar\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2005). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934225055859,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4f22fed2-17ec-4a72-b9ab-58526e5a1a55.jpg?v=1647878240","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/basic-linguistic-theory-volume-1-methodology-9780199571062","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}