Robert M. W. Dixon

Robert M. W. Dixon
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Gloucester (mul) , 25 ga Janairu, 1939 (86 shekaru)
ƙasa	Asturaliya
Ƴan uwa
Abokiyar zama	Alexandra Aikhenvald (en)
Karatu
Makaranta	Nottingham High School (en) ; Australian National University (en)
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	linguist (en)
Wurin aiki	Melbourne
Employers	James Cook University (en)
Kyaututtuka	gani Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1982) ;

Robert Malcolm Ward "Bob" Dixon (an haife shi a ranar 25 ga watan Janairun 1939, a Gloucester a kasar , Ingila ) Farfesa ne na Ilimin Harshe a Kwalejin Fasaha, Al'umma, da Ilimi da Cibiyar Cairns, Jami'ar James Cook, Queensland . Ya kuma kasance Mataimakin Darakta na Cibiyar Binciken Harshe da Al'adu a JCU . Doctor of Letters (DLitt, ANU, 1991), an ba shi lambar yabo ta Doctor of Lettres Honoris Causa ta JCU a cikin 2018. Fellow na Kwalejin Burtaniya; Fellow na Australian Academy of the Humanities, kuma memba mai daraja na Linguistic Society of America, yana ɗaya daga cikin masu ilimin harshe guda uku da za a ambaci su musamman a cikin The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by Peter Matthews (2014).

Rayuwa ta farko

An haifi Dixon a Gloucester, a yammacin Ingila, a cikin 1939 kuma tun yana yaro ya zauna a Stroud kuma daga baya a Bramcote kusa da Nottingham, inda mahaifinsa ya zama shugaban Kwalejin Jama'a ta Ƙarin Ilimi. Ya yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandare ta Nottingham sannan kuma a Jami'ar Oxford, inda ya sami digiri na farko a lissafi a shekarar 1960, kuma a ƙarshe a Jami'an Edinburgh, inda ya kasance mai bincike a cikin ilimin lissafi a sashen Ingilishi daga Yuli 1961 zuwa Satumba 1963. Bayan haka har zuwa watan Satumbar 1964 ya yi aiki a filin don Aboriginal_Studies" id="mwMA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies">Cibiyar Nazarin Aboriginal ta Australiya a arewa maso gabashin Queensland, yana aiki a kan harsunan Aboriginal da yawa na Ostiraliya, amma yana da sha'awar Dyirbal.

Ayyuka

Bincike

Dixon ya rubuta a fannoni da yawa na ka'idar harshe da aikin gona, an san shi musamman saboda aikinsa a kan harsunan Ostiraliya da Harsunan Arawá na Brazil. Ya wallafa ilimin lissafi na Dyirbal, Yidiɲ, Warrgamay, Nyawaygi, da Mbabaram. Ya wallafa cikakken harshe na Boumaa Fijian, yaren Polynesian (1988), da Jarawara, yaren Arawá daga kudancin Amazonia (2004), wanda ya sami lambar yabo ta Leonard Bloomfield Book Award daga Linguistic Society of America .

Ayyukan Dixon a cikin ilimin harshe na tarihi sun kasance masu tasiri sosai. Dangane da bincike na kwatankwacin tarihi, Dixon ya yi tambaya game da manufar harsunan Pama-Nyungan, wanda ya yi jayayya cewa ba a taɓa ba da isasshen shaida ba. Ya kuma ba da shawarar sabon tsarin "ma'auni mai ma'ana", wanda ya dogara da ka'idar wannan sunan a cikin ilmin halitta na juyin halitta, wanda ya fi dacewa da yankuna da yawa na harsuna, gami da harsunan Australiya. Dixon ya gabatar da ka'idarsa a cikin The Rise and Fall of Languages, wanda aka inganta a cikin littafinsa Australian Languages: their nature and development (2002). Dixon shine marubucin wasu littattafai da yawa, ciki har da Harsunan Australiya: Yanayensu da Ci gaban su da Ergativity . Ayyukansa masu mahimmanci guda uku na Basic Linguistic Theory (2010-2012) an buga su ne ta hanyar Oxford University Press.

An buga ƙarin aikinsa a kan harsunan Australiya a cikin jinsi mai cin abinci, salon surukarta, da sauran abubuwan al'ajabi na ilimin lissafi: Nazarin Dyirbal, Yidiñ da Warrgamay, 2015.

Ƙarin rubuce-rubucensa masu tasiri sun haɗa da aiki a kan harshen Ingilishi, musamman A new approach to English grammar (1991, edition revised 2005), da Making New Words: Morphological Derivation in English (2014). Littafinsa na baya-bayan nan Are Some Languages Better than Others (2016, paperback 2018) ya gabatar da tambaya game da inganci da darajar harsuna daban-daban.

Ayyukansa na edita sun haɗa da kundi huɗu na Handbook of Australian Languages (tare da Barry Blake), fitowar musamman ta Lingua a kan ergativity, kuma, tare da Alexandra Aikhenvald, kundin da yawa a kan ilimin Harshe a cikin jerin Bincike a cikin Harshe na Harshe, mahimman Harsunan Amazon (1999), da Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (2017).

Littafinsa na baya-bayan nan shine The Unmasking of English Dictionaries (2018), wanda ke ba da taƙaitaccen tarihin ƙamus na Turanci da ke bayyana matsalolin su, kuma yana ba da shawarar sabuwar hanyar yin ƙamus.

"Mun kasance muna cin mutane", Ru'ya ta Yohanna game da ƙauyen gargajiya na tsibirin Fiji (2018) ya ba da cikakken hoto game da aikinsa a Fiji a ƙarshen shekarun 1980.

Matsayi na ilimi

A cikin 1996, Dixon da wani masanin harshe, Alexandra Aikhenvald, sun kafa Cibiyar Bincike don Harshe a Jami'ar Kasa ta Australia da ke Canberra . A ranar 1 ga Janairun 2000, cibiyar ta koma Jami'ar La Trobe da ke Melbourne.

Dukansu Dixon (darakta na cibiyar) da Aikhenvald (mataimakin darakta) sun yi murabus daga mukamin su a watan Mayu na shekara ta 2008. A farkon shekara ta 2009, Aikhenvald da Dixon sun kafa Kungiyar Binciken Harshe da Al'adu (LCRG) a harabar Cairns ta Jami'ar James Cook . An canza wannan zuwa Cibiyar Binciken Harshe da Al'adu a cikin Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Jama'a a JCU, Cairns, a cikin 2011. A halin yanzu, Aikhenvald shine darektan kuma mataimakin darektan Dixon na cibiyar.

Bayanan littattafai

(Jirgin da ke ƙasa bai cika ba.

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