The Languages of Australia - Couverture souple

Dixon, R. M. W.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108017851 ISBN 13 : 9781108017855

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Described by Ken Hale as 'nothing less than a masterpiece' and by P. H. Matthews as 'absolutely clear, astonishingly complete, factually fascinating', The Languages of Australia (first published in 1980 and now reissued) was a landmark in Australian linguistics. This pioneering work of synthesis covered more than two hundred Aboriginal languages, and stimulated the next generation of scholarship in the field. The author's subsequent search for an overarching theoretical model to explain the unusual properties of Australian languages finally led him to adopt a 'punctuated equilibrium' model of language development. Dixon proposed this in The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997), which provided the framework for his major work Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development (2002). The Languages of Australia is still sought after, however, as a benchmark in the discipline and because its first four chapters provide a valuable non-technical introduction that does not appear in the 2002 volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108017851
• ISBN 13: 9781108017855
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 572
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Avery; https://www.avery.fr/; ; chemin des peupliers 27; Dardilly; France