Author: Paul A. Geraghty
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Fijian Language Studies
Author: Paul A. Geraghty
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226154282
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226154282
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Early Studies of the Fijian Language
Author: Albert J. Schütz
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
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Handbook of the Fijian Language
Author: William Moore
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Fijian Language
Author: Albert J. Schütz
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881656
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824881656
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 905
Book Description
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.
Fijian Language Studies II
Author: Paul Geraghty
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Fijian Studies
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Fijian Language Studies
Author: Fiji Museum
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Category : Fijian language
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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Body, Self, and Society
Author: Anne E. Becker
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812290240
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812290240
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Anne E. Becker examines the cultural context of the embodied self through her ethnography of bodily aesthetics, food exchange, care, and social relationships in Fiji. She contrasts the cultivation of the body/self in Fijian and American society, arguing that the motivation of Americans to work on their bodies' shapes as a personal endeavor is permitted by their notion that the self is individuated and autonomous. On the other hand, because Fijians concern themselves with the cultivation of social relationships largely expressed through nurturing and food exchange, there is a vested interest in cultivating others' bodies rather than one's own.
Knowing and Learning
Author: Unaisi Nabobo-Baba
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820203792
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book provides an 'insiders' view of how an indigenous society perceives itself and the world around it, and is set to raise the level of debate on the development of Fiji as a post colonial nation. The author has employed a decolonized 'vanua research' method to explore how her people, those of Vugalei in southeastern Vitilevu, acquire and transmit knowledge. By documenting the various dimensions of knowledge and their value and applications in Vugalei society, the author enables the indigenous voice to be heard.
Publisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820203792
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book provides an 'insiders' view of how an indigenous society perceives itself and the world around it, and is set to raise the level of debate on the development of Fiji as a post colonial nation. The author has employed a decolonized 'vanua research' method to explore how her people, those of Vugalei in southeastern Vitilevu, acquire and transmit knowledge. By documenting the various dimensions of knowledge and their value and applications in Vugalei society, the author enables the indigenous voice to be heard.