Karen Elizabeth Park
List of John Benjamins publications in which Karen Elizabeth Park is involved.
Articles
2013 Reflexive marking in Fijian Studies in Language 37:4, pp. 764–809 | Article
The Fijian language has long been believed to include no dedicated reflexive marker. This paper takes a close look at reflexive contexts within Fijian to arrive at the conclusion that the language, in fact, contains three distinct reflexive types, designated here as short (PRO), mid (PRO-ga), and… read more
2012 Dialect choice in Fiji: A variationist approach to language change in the South Pacific The Dialect Laboratory: Dialects as a testing ground for theories of language change, De Vogelaer, Gunther and Guido Seiler (eds.), pp. 179–196 | Article
This work presents a variationist investigation of language change and the social factors motivating that change within the Fiji Islands at the level of dialect variation. In Fiji, urbanisation coupled with a growing sense of national identity is hypothesized to be effecting an unprecedented… read more