Fijian Language Studies
Author: Paul A. Geraghty
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 110
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Author: Paul A. Geraghty
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 110
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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: 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: Anne E. Becker
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-11-25
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0812290240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnne 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.
Author: Paul A. Geraghty
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781740591355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile most Fiji locals can speak English, it's not their mother tongue. Learning the Fijian language means you can get away from the tourist areas and out into the real Fiji - where a little bit of local talk goes a long way.
Author: McLennan, Nancy
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2015-02-02
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9231000594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSustainable development star ts with safe, healthy, well-educated children. Par ticipation in qualit y physical education (QPE), as par t of a rounded syllabus, enhances young peoples' civic engagement, decreases violence and negative pat terns of behaviour, and improves health awareness. Despite evidence highlighting the impor tance of QPE to child development, the world is witnessing a global decline in its delivery and a parallel rise in deaths associated with physical inactivit y.
Author: David Stanley
Publisher: David Stanley
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781566910385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fourth revised edition of a handbook to the 322 islands of the Pacific that make up the Fiji Islands, covering Viti Levu, Yasawa islands, the Lomaiviti group, Vanua Levu, Taveuni, the Lau group and Rotuma. Offers recommendations for the traveller on accomodation, airfares, air routes and tour services and inter-island travel.
Author: Hermann Muckler
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 3642520545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDas vorliegende Buch ist das Ergebnis einer mehrjahrigen wissenschaftli chen Auseinandersetzung mit der lnselwelt des Siidpazifiks. Die zugrunde liegenden F orschungen fanden in den Jahren 1992 bis 1995 in Fidschi und den umgebenden lnselstaaten statt und miindeten in einer Dissertation mit dem Titel "taukei und vulagi -Ursachen politi scher lnstabilitat in Fidschi; Kulturwandel, ethnische Kontlikte und die Bedeutung des Hauptlingswesens: die fidschianische Perspektive". Zusatzliches Material wurde 1996 und 1997 vor Ort erhoben und findet hier seine Beriicksichtigung. Die jiingsten Ent wicklungen in Zusammenhang mit der lmplementierung einer neuen Ver fassung fUr Fidschi und die Wiederaufnahme Fidschis in den British Commonwealth of Nations werden angesprochen und bilden den SchluB punkt dieser Arbeit, deren Schwerpunkt einer umfassenden Darstellung hi storischer Ereignisse und Entwicklungen und daraus resultierender Konse quenzen fUr die rezente Situation Fidschis gewidmet ist. Ausgangspunkt fUr die intensive Beschaftigung mit der Region war mein Interesse fUr politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen in ehemals ko lonisierten Staaten vor dem jeweiligen soziokulturellen und soziookonomi schen Hintergrund, unter Beriicksichtigung der Konsequenzen kolonialer EintluBnahme und der einzelnen Phasen der Dekolonisation. Die Ergebnisse zweier Forschungsaufenthalte in Fidschi im Jahr 1992 und 1993 dienten bereits im Jahr 1993 als Grundlage fUr eine Diplomarbeit mit dem Titel: "Ethnische Heterogenitat in Fidschi als Erbe britischer Kolonial politik und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Fidschianervon 1858 bis heute."
Author: Suzanne Romaine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-08
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1315504952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book defines and describes the linguistic features of these languages and considers the dynamic developments that bring them into being and lead to changes in their structure.