Abstract

I should like to thank David Arms and the editor of Te Reo for allowing me to respond to this review of The Fijian language. My first response is that I consider it a fair review, and – especially in terms of the opening and the closing paragraphs – a favourable one, and for this, I thank the author, not only for the care and attention to detail with which he has written the review, but also for the same qualities in the help he gave me while I was still writing the grammar.

As for the points of disagreement, it is only natural that different people have different views of the grammar, and I welcome the chance to explain my point of view on a number of those topics. In the following discussion, the headings and the numbers refer to those used by Arms.

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