Searching for Aboriginal Languages: Memoirs of a Field Worker

by R.M.W. Dixon

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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"

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Australian Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Ethnic & National Foreign Language Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Humanities Linguistics Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks Words, Language & Grammar

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