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A Study of Two Fijian Texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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The two texts which are analysed in the present paper were gathered during a period of fourteen months' lingu stic work in Fiji in 1948 and 1949. As a result of recent developments in linguistics, notably the perceptiblechange of emphasis from comparativeto descriptive work,1 more especially in the study of preliterate languages, the modern field-worker applies himself to gather a large number of texts.He takes down certain utterances and he establishes his text by means of well-defined techniques. Having as alinguist handled the material, both oral and written, to his provisional satisfaction, he can then state his findings in a grammar, under the headings of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. When the grammatical system has been stated it would seem that it is.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , June 1952 , pp. 346 - 377
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page 353 note 1 mataqali.
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