Download or read book A Grammar of Yidin written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-10-06 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Dixon examines the grammar of Yidin, an Australian dying language, through phonology, syntax and of a 'mixed ergative' type that cannot easily be accommodated in terms of standard syntactic theory.