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Author : Clerk Maxwell Churchward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Fijian language
ISBN : UOM:39015012275296
Author : Albert J. Schütz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824881658
This work is directed to those who want to learn more about the Fijian language. It is intended as a reference work, treating in detail such tropics as verb and noun classification, transitivity, the phonological hierarchy, orthography, specification, possession, subordination, and the definite article (among others). In addition, it is an attempt to fit these pieces together into a unified picture of the structure of the language.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1988-10-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226154297
The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two differing as much perhaps as do the American and British varieties of English. During 1985, R. M. W. Dixon—one of the most insightful of linguists engaged in descriptive studies today—lived in the village of Waitabu and studied the language spoken there. He found in Boumaa Fijian a wealth of striking features unknown in commonly studied languages and on the basis of his fieldwork prepared this grammar. Fijian is an agglutinating language, one in which words are formed by the profligate combining of morphemes. There are no case inflections, and tense and aspect as shown by independent clitics or words within a predicate complex. Most verbs come in both transitive and intransitive forms, and nouns can be build up regularly from verbal parts and verbs from nouns. The language is also marked by a highly developed pronoun system and by a vocabulary rich in areas of social significance. In the opening chapters, Dixon describes the Islands' political, social, and linguistic organization, outlines the main points of Fijian phonology, and presents an overview of the grammar. In succeeding chapters, he examines a number of grammatical topics in greater detail, including clause and phrase structure, verbal syntax, deictics, and anaphora. The volume also includes a full vocabulary of all forms treated in discussion and three of the fifteen texts recorded from monolingual village elders on which the grammar is based.
Author : Lena Zipp
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270771
This volume contains a comprehensive corpus-based study of prepositional constructions in written Fiji English. It explores the endo- and exonormative dynamics of norm-giving and norm-developing varieties and contributes to our understanding of structural nativization and variety formation in a multi-ethnic setting. The book provides an account of the sociolinguistic development of English in Fiji against the backdrop of the country's colonial and post-independence history, with special focus on the Indo-Fijian part of the population. Drawing on the written sections of the Indian, Great Britain, New Zealand and preliminary Fiji components of the International Corpus of English, quantitative and qualitative analyses of prepositional phenomena are conducted on the word level (frequency, semantic effects and stylistic variation), phrase level (productivity in verb-particle combinations), and pattern level (prepositions and -ing clauses). The book will be relevant to scholars interested in lexico-grammar, variety and corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics in general.
Author : Albert J. Schütz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiji
ISBN : 1499257880
Fijian Reference Grammar is based on more than fifty years of research. It does not attempt to follow popular linguistic theories, but instead, relies heavily on language in context. The data used include material written and spoken by Fijians, ranging from advice offered by the author's colleagues in the Fijian Dictionary Project to Fijian language newspapers and textbooks. Included also are recordings of loanwords and casual conversations, and -most recently- the text and DVD of a recent Fijian play, Lakovi.
Author : One Amongst Them,Emmanuel Rougier
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1015610463
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226154289
The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standard Fijian, the two differing as much perhaps as do the American and British varieties of English. During 1985, R. M. W. Dixon—one of the most insightful of linguists engaged in descriptive studies today—lived in the village of Waitabu and studied the language spoken there. He found in Boumaa Fijian a wealth of striking features unknown in commonly studied languages and on the basis of his fieldwork prepared this grammar. Fijian is an agglutinating language, one in which words are formed by the profligate combining of morphemes. There are no case inflections, and tense and aspect as shown by independent clitics or words within a predicate complex. Most verbs come in both transitive and intransitive forms, and nouns can be build up regularly from verbal parts and verbs from nouns. The language is also marked by a highly developed pronoun system and by a vocabulary rich in areas of social significance. In the opening chapters, Dixon describes the Islands' political, social, and linguistic organization, outlines the main points of Fijian phonology, and presents an overview of the grammar. In succeeding chapters, he examines a number of grammatical topics in greater detail, including clause and phrase structure, verbal syntax, deictics, and anaphora. The volume also includes a full vocabulary of all forms treated in discussion and three of the fifteen texts recorded from monolingual village elders on which the grammar is based.
Author : George Bertram Milner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Fijian language
ISBN : UCSD:31822015329519
Author : Harold Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Fijian Language --glossaries, Vocabularies, Etc
ISBN : UOM:39015047530137
Author : David Hazlewood
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382157746
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : David Hazlewood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English language
ISBN : OCLC:16112434
Author : Joan L. Bybee,Suzanne Fleischman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285720
This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.
Author : David Hazlewood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0282446427
Excerpt from A Fijian and English and an English and Fijian Dictionary: With Examples of Common and Peculiar Modes of Expression and Uses of Words; Also, Containing Brief Hints on Native Customs, Proverbs, the Native Names of Natural Productions, and Notices of the Islands of Fiji, and a Grammar of the Language The above simple rules being attended to, this book will answer all the purposes of a pronouncing dictionary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810879027
This book is the first concise account of the history of the Fiji islands from the beginning of human settlement to the early years of the 21st century. Its primary focus is on the period since the advent of colonial rule in the late 19th century to the present, benefiting from the author’s internationally acknowledged expertise as a scholar and writer on the Fijian past. Besides factual information, the book also offers a scholarly assessment of the people and events which have shaped Fiji’s history. The Historical Dictionary of Fiji contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Fiji.
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon,Nathan M. White
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198865681
This volume examines the concept of 'word' as a phonological unit and as an item with both meaning and grammatical function. The chapters explore how this concept can be applied to a range of typologically diverse languages, from Lao and Hmong in Southeast Asia to Yidiñ in northern Australia and Murui in the Amazonian jungle.