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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Linguistics : Words of Our Country : Stories, Place Names and Vocabulary in Yidiny, the Aboriginal Language of the Cairns-Yarrabah Region
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'For the past thirty years, RMW Dixon has been researching the languages of the Cairns rainforest region, producing a steady stream of linguistic publications. A s a result, the languages of the area are among the most technically well described in Australia. The book under review is the completion of Dixon's work on Yidiny, the language originally spoken in Cairns and areas to the south, begun with the grammatical description of Dixon 1977.'  (Introduction)

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