A Grammar of Yidin

by R.M.W. Dixon

Book Overview

Professor Dixon's book The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland (CUP 1972) is acknowledge to be a classic study. His study of Yidin is directly comparable in importance. Yidin, which is also a dying language, is Dyirbal's northerly neighbour. Yet the two languages have striking and fundamental differences in each area of grammar (while still both belonging to the Australian language family). In the phonology, there is a preference for each word to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521142423
• ISBN13: 9780521142427
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"