Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Fijian (fij) Alternative Names  Fiji, Standard Fijian, Eastern Fijian, Nadroga, Nadronga Family/Group  Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian Area  SE Asia and Oceania General Data  verb stems are intransitive, transitivity is expressed by suffixation Typological Information  • flexible word classes • highly productive reduplication patterns are typical for all Polynesian languages Reduplication Form-Function  • bimoraic (intensification, pluralization, derivation, participant defocussing) • CV (pluralization, diminution, intensification) • full (intensification, pluralization, derivation, diminution) Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  • the functions of the various formal types overlap widely • in some cases the variation between full and partial reduplication is used to avoid ambiguitiy (but not systematically) • bases with two identical syllables can be reduplicated only partially (e.g. dede "opened" --> *dede~dede, but de~dede "open continually"; ta-cece "separated (layers)" --> *ta~ta-cece~cece, but *ta~ta-ce~cece "shivering, trembling" • prefixed (derived) verbs reduplicate the prefix and the stem separately (e.g. ka-bola --> ka~ka-bola~bola "split in two frequently"); • compounds reduplicate only the first element (e.g. tabu-siga --> tabu~tabu-siga "keep out of sun frequently") Productivity  • derivative RED with the prefixes ta-, ca-, ka- is productive; RED with the prefixes so-, kaca-, sa-, ma-, ka-, tava- is unproductive • loan words are regularily reduplicated Forms  Select Valueµµ σσ affix CV stem word   Functions  Select Valuediminution intensification lexical enrichment other pluralization word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuefull partial full with affixation partial with affixation Semantics  Select Valuediminuity intensity other plurality similarity   Word Classes  Select Value0 — noun adjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — noun noun — verb verb — verb   All Examples  ⊞ References    Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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