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Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology Hardcover English by R. M. W. Dixon

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Publisher	Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13	9780199270934
Author	R. M. W. Dixon
Book Format	Hardcover

Language	English
Editorial Review	..makes a major contribution to the general study of parts of speech across languages... The editors of this book have provided a much-needed analytical framework for typologizing the key distinctions in how the adjective manifests itself as a part of speech. * Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University * The articles are of consistently high quality and the range of language types represented, like the calibre of the researchers themselves, is impressive ... Dixon and Aikhenveld are to be congratulated on bringing together...a first-rate cast of linguists working on such a diverse set of the world's languages ... a remarkable volume ... This volume and the papers in it represent a major advance in parts of speech typology and will surely frame the debate in thenature of adjectives, and lexical classes, and their role in grammatical and typological theory for years to come. * David Beck, Functions of Language * A very useful and usable resource * Andrew Spencer, Language, vol. 84, no.2, 2008 *
About the Author	R. M. W. Dixon is Professor and Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidin), in addition to A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press 1988), A New Approach to English Grammar, on Semantic Principles (Oxford University Press 1991, revised edition in preparation), and The Jarawara language of southern Amazonia (Oxford UP 2004).His books on typological theory include Where have all the Adjectives Gone? and other Essays in Semantics and Syntax (1982) and Ergativity (1994). His essay The Rise and Fall of Languages (1997) expounded a punctuated equilibrium model for language development which is the basis for his detailed casestudy Australian Languages: their Nature and Development (2002). He is currently working on an extensive study of basic linguistic theory.Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published in Russian a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family of northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, fromNorthwest Amazonia (Cambridge University Press 2003). Her books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization devices (OUP 2000, paperback reissue 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (OUP 2002), and Evidentiality (OUP 2004). She is currently working on grammatical description of Manambu, fromthe Sepik region of New Guinea.
Number of Pages	392

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