Fijian and English

Resources for machine translation between Fijian and English

Lexical Selection

eng → fij one-to-many mapping

• Case 1: Pelu and lo’i describe two different kinds of bending action.

(eng) bend → (fij) pelu (e.g. bend of metal)

(eng) bend → (fij) lo’i (e.g. bend at a joint)

• Case 2: The third person singular pronoun in English does not distinguish between nominative and accusative case.

(eng) it → (fij) e (subj)

(eng) it → (fij) koya (obj)

fij → eng one-to-many mapping

• Case 1: The word levu can be used either as an adjective meaning "big", or a verb meaning "be a lot".

(fij) levu → (eng) big (adj)

(fij) levu → (eng) be a lot (v)

• Case2: Fijian does not distinguish genders on pronouns.

(fij) koya → (eng) him

(fij) koya → (eng) her

(fij) koya → (eng) it

Contrastive Grammar

https://wikis.swarthmore.edu/ling073/Fijian_and_English/Contrastive_Grammar

Developed Resources for Machine Translation

https://github.swarthmore.edu/hwang11/ling073-fij-eng