Grammar of Boumaa Fijian

Name: Grammar of Boumaa Fijian
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ISBN: 9780226154299

ISBN-10: 0226154297

ISBN-13: 9780226154299

Edition: 1988

Authors: R. M. W. Dixon

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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…

Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/31/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.41" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Organisation and Cross-references


Abbreviations Maps



Introduction



Political organisation



Language and life in Boumaa



Linguistic profile of Fijian



Fijian within the Austronesian language family



Data base for this study



Phonology



Consonants



Vowels and diphthongs



Phonotactics



Stress



Intonation



Diachronic change



Word



Phonological word



Grammatical word



Roots



Affixes



Function items



Pronouns



Syntactic Overview I—Clause and Phrase Structure



Word classes



Predicate structure



Noun phrase structure



Clausal NPs



Other subordinate clauses



Semi-auxiliary verbs "not," "can," etc



Peripheral clause constituents



Fronting



Relative clauses



Derivational affixes



Syntactic Overview II—Verbs



Syntactic orientation of verbs—A and O types



Verbs with two transitive forms



The principles of verbal syntax



Passive



Reduplication



Object incorporation



Va'a- derivations



Pronouns



Meanings



Functions



Forms



Analysis



Third person singular



Deictics



Demonstratives



Forms



Function and meaning



Deictic verbs



Deictic noun



Predicate



Predicate head



Verbs and adjectives as predicate head



Noun phrase as predicate head



Pronoun as predicate head



Prefatory material



Subject pronouns



Tense-apart markers



Discourse markers



Order



Modifiers



Stance-aspect



Finish and start



Locational markers



Directional comparatives



Modal modifiers



Markers of intensity



"All" and "alone"



Other modifiers



Order of modifiers



Adverbs



Noun Phrase



Structure of simple NPs



Structure of complex NPs



Articles



Mataqali "kind of"



Lexical modifiers



Grammatical modifiers and adverbs



Possession



Parameters



Constructions



Alternative realisations



NP niNP



Bound nouns



Existential constructions of "having"



Clausal NPs



Structure



Function



Classifiers



With nouns



With adjectives



With verbs



Particular classifier contrasts



Numbers



The number system



Syntax



As predicate head



In a noun phrase



In a prepositional NP



With time and distance words



Lewe13.3. Ordinals



Veimaamaa"half" and fractions



Distributives



Prepositions



Form



Functions of iand mai14.3. 'Ei"together with"



The grammaticisation of baleta



Preposition baleta - baleti"concerning"



Conjunction baleta ni"because"



Time Expressions



Time words



Other time expressions



Interrogatives



Cei "who"



Cava"what, which"



Vei"where"



Vica"how many/much, some"



(Na)ica"when"



'Uca"to do what"; va'a- cava"to do how"



Word Derivations



Prefix vei-, collective



With nouns and time words



With kin terms



With verbs



Vei . . . ya'i/ya'ina"all over the place"



Prefix va'a-, causative, etc



Prefix +i- deverbal