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Robert Malcolm Ward Dixon (Gloucester, England, January 25 1939) is a Professor of Linguistics and former Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Dixon ceased being Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology in May 2008 following a dispute with La Trobe University in February 2008. Professor Dixon has written on many areas of linguistic theory and fieldwork, being particularly noted for his work on the Aboriginal languages of Australia. He has published grammars of Dyirbal and Yidiny as well as non-Australian languages like Boumaa Fijian and Jarawara.
   Professor Dixon's work on Australian languages has led him to reject the standard "family-tree" model of linguistic change in favour of a "punctuated equilibrium" model, based on the theory of the same name in evolutionary biology. Dixon puts forth his theory in The Rise and Fall of Languages. This theory has been roundly criticised by other linguists working on Australian Aboriginal languages.
   He is also the author of a number of other books including Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development Cambridge University Press and Ergativity
   In addition to scholarly works, Professor Dixon also published, in 1983, a memoir of his early fieldwork in Australia titled Searching For Aboriginal Languages. The book provides a glimpse at linguistic fieldwork as it was done in that era as well as an interesting historical look at the appalling treatment of Aboriginal peoples of Australia that continued right into the 1960s.

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