Fijian Languages
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There is a strand of work in the Austronesian literature claiming that the syntactic category distinctions familiar from Indo-European are lacking in certain languages belonging to this family. On the other hand, Baker (2005) claims that... more
The Fijian language forbids coda consonants and consonant clusters, allowing a vowel to be inserted in English loanwords. Copy epenthesis is a repair strategy that is observed in Fijian loanword adaptation. The issue addressed here is... more
This paper examines the factors that determine epenthetic vowel quality of English loanword into Fijian. It is argued that epenthetic vowel quality in Fijian loanwords can be explained by the Theory of Constraints and Repair Strategies... more
This paper is a preliminary report on a sociolinguistic field survey. It records the beliefs which 834 permanent residents of Suva, Fiji had about their own language and literacy skills in 1988-89. The interview subjects were selected... more
This essay addresses the vexed questions of provenance and authenticity of objects that have been collected and made accessible for study. It calls for an exploration of the way in which these have often been uncritically accepted solely... more
Kennedy (2009) distinguishes between implicit and explicit comparison (IC/EC): IC is exemplified by ‘Compared to John, Mary is tall’, and EC is of form, ‘Mary is taller than John’. Kennedy goes on to ask whether there are IC-only... more
This research proposal presents the purpose and its value of the topic mentioned above on Fiji's Chinese Language Teaching current situation and investigation research. This is the first draft written for the research proposal. The... more