A Grammar Of Boumaa Fijian
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Author | : R. M. W. Dixon |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1988-10-31 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780226154299 |
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 | : Albert J. Schütz |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Fiji |
ISBN | : 9781499257885 |
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 | : Clerk Maxwell Churchward |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Fijian language |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : George Bertram Milner |
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Total Pages | : 150 |
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Author | : Thomas Edward Payne |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027222411 |
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Author | : G. B. Milner |
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Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Fijian language |
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Author | : David Hazlewood |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
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Author | : Nicholas Thieberger |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2006-07-31 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 082483061X |
This book presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of PortVila. It is one of the first such grammars to take seriously the provision of primary data for the verification of claims made in the analysis. The research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world’s smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future. In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, the author describes the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software (Audiamus) developed in the course of the research. An included DVD provides a dictionary and finderlist, a set of interlinearized example texts and elicited sentences, and playable media versions of most example sentences and of the example texts.
Author | : Dineke Schokkin |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2020-02-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311067517X |
This is the first comprehensive description of Paluai, an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on Baluan Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. Based on extensive field research, the grammar covers all linguistic levels, including phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, while paying particular attention to pragmatics and discourse practices. This is the first comprehensive description of Paluai, a language from the underdescribed Admiralties subgroup, a first-order branch of Oceanic (Austronesian). Paluai is spoken on Baluan Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, by two to three thousand people. The grammar is based on extensive field research by the author and covers all linguistic levels. After a general introduction of its socio-cultural context, the language's phonology is discussed, followed by two chapters on its parts of speech, divided by open and closed word classes. Following chapters address topics such as the structure of the noun phrase, verbal and non-verbal clauses, grammatical relations, serial verb constructions, mood, negation and clause combining. The final chapter provides an in-depth discussion of pragmatics and discourse practices relevant to Paluai, illustrated through two narrative texts that are included integrally at the end of the book. This grammar is of interest to scholars working on Austronesian languages, particularly those of the New Guinea region, and those working on linguistic typology. It is also relevant to those interested in the history, languages and cultures of this region more generally.