A Compendious Grammar of the Feejeean Language
Author: David Hazlewood
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 84
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Author: David Hazlewood
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 84
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780226154282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Thomas Williams (missionary in Fiji.)
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 618
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Albert J. Schütz
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2019-03-31
Total Pages: 905
ISBN-13: 0824881656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Thomas Williams
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 604
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Williams (Missionary in Fiji.)
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Williams
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-02-13
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 3382300524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original. 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: Thomas Williams
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 464
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-04-09
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 3382174227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1871. 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: Thomas Williams
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Published: 1858
Total Pages: 462
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