Prof R.M.W. Dixon
MA Oxf, PhD Lond, LittD ANU, FAHA, FBA

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FOUNDING PROFESSOR Professor Dixon has worked in many areas of linguistics. He has written grammars of five Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidiny), published a survey volume (The Languages of Australia, 1980) and a comprehensive study of how the 250 indigenous languages constitute a long-established linguistic area (Australian languages: their nature and development, 2002). He has published A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (1988) and A New Approach to English Grammar, on Semantic Principles (1991, revised and enlarged edition in active preparation). For the past twelve years he has been working in the southern Amazonian jungle of Brazil, writing a grammar of Jarawara (this is to be published in 2004 under the title The Jarawara language of southern Amazonia), and pursuing a comparative study of the Arawá language family. His works on typological theory include Where have all the Adjectives Gone? and other Essays in Semantics and Syntax (1982) and Ergativity (1994). He put forward a new idea concerning language change, the Punctuated Equilibrium model, in The Rise and Fall of Languages, published by Cambridge University Press in 1997 (Japanese translation, 2001). 2006 Leonard Bloomfield Award

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