Download or read book Fijian Language Studies II written by Paul Geraghty and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fijian Language written by Albert J. Schütz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Fijian Language Studies written by Paul A. Geraghty and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Early Studies of the Fijian Language written by Albert J. Schütz and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of the Fijian Language written by William Moore and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Encyclopaedia of the Linguistic Sciences written by Vennelakaṇṭi Prakāśaṃ and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book David Cargill s Fijian Grammar written by David Cargill and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educated Fiji English written by Lena Zipp and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Fijian Language Studies written by Fiji Museum and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State of Suffering written by Susanna Trnka and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna Trnka was residing in an Indo-Fijian village in the year 2000 during the Fijian nationalist coup. The overthrow of the elected multiethnic party led to six months of nationalist aggression, much of which was directed toward Indo-Fijians. In State of Suffering, Trnka shows how Indo-Fijians' lives were overturned as waves of turmoil and destruction swept across Fiji. Describing the myriad social processes through which violence is articulated and ascribed meaning-including expressions of incredulity, circulation of rumors, narratives, and exchanges of laughter and jokes-Trnka reveals the ways in which the community engages in these practices as individuals experience, and try to understand, the consequences of the coup. She then considers different kinds of pain caused by political chaos and social turbulence, including pain resulting from bodily harm, shared terror, and the distress precipitated by economic crisis and social dislocation. Throughout this book, Trnka focuses on the collective social process through which violence is embodied, articulated, and silenced by those it targets. Her sensitive ethnography is a valuable addition to the global conversation about the impact of political violence on community life.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania written by Ethan E. Cochrane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania presents the archaeology, linguistics, environment and human biology of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. First colonized 50,000 years ago, Oceania witnessed the independent invention of agriculture, the construction of Easter Island's statues, and the development of the word's last archaic states."--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Making Sense of Hierarchy Cognition as Social Process in Fiji written by Christina Toren and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour. The author spent July 1981 to February 1983 in Fiji, eighteen months of the time being spent in the chiefly village of Sawaieke on the island of Gau. This book is collection of her field research.

Download or read book Literarcy and Social Change written by J. R. Clammer and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1976 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Literary and Social Change written by Clammer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fiji National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Friendship and Peer Culture in Multilingual Settings written by Maryanne Theobald and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally, linguistic diversity is at its highest to date. With increasing numbers of children learning additional languages, it is important to understand the nature of the social relationships that children are experiencing. This volume features the rich, varied and complex aspects of children's friendships in multilingual settings.