The Fijian Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fijian Language write by Albert J. Schütz. This book was released on 2019-03-31. The Fijian Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Spoken Fijian
Spoken Fijian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spoken Fijian write by Albert J. Schütz. This book was released on 1971. Spoken Fijian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Spoken Fijian
Spoken Fijian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spoken Fijian write by Rusiate T. Komaitai. This book was released on 1971. Spoken Fijian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fijian Language Studies
Fijian Language Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fijian Language Studies write by Paul A. Geraghty. This book was released on 1978. Fijian Language Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian
A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian write by R. M. W. Dixon. This book was released on 1988. A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
