Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker

by R.M.W. Dixon

Book Overview

In 1963 R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon set off for Australia, where he was to record, chart, and preserve several of the complex and nearly extinct Aboriginal languages. Beginning with his introduction to these languages while a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh and his difficulties in getting to the Australian bush, Dixon's fourteen-year tale is one of frustration and enlightenment, of setbacks and discoveries.

As he made his way through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226154300
• ISBN13: 9780226154305
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"