Robert M. W. Dixon

Robert M. W. Dixon
Born
Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon

(1939-01-25) 25 January 1939 (age 85)
Gloucester, England
OccupationLinguist
SpouseAlexandra Aikhenvald
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-discipline
Institutions
Main interestsAustralian Aboriginal languages

Robert Malcolm Ward "Bob" Dixon (born 25 January 1939, in Gloucester, England[1]) is a Professor of Linguistics in the College of Arts, Society, and Education and The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland. He is also Deputy Director of The Language and Culture Research Centre at JCU.[2] Doctor of Letters (DLitt, ANU, 1991), he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa by JCU in 2018. Fellow of British Academy; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, he is one of three living linguists to be specifically mentioned in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics by Peter Matthews (2014).[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference anniv was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Professor R. M. W. Dixon Archived 30 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine (information page at the James Cook University site)
  3. ^ Matthews, P. H. (2014). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, [page needed]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [ISBN missing]