Let's learn Maori : a guide to the study of the Maori language /

Let's Learn Maori comprises a textbook and self-help guide to the study of the Maori language. It is also a complete grammar reference, covering parts of speech, the structure of each type of phrase and the combinations of phrases that form simple sentences. Each aspect of the grammar is discus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Biggs, Bruce, 1921-2000 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Maori
Publicado: Auckland : Auckland University Press, 1998.
Temas:
Māori language > Textbooks for foreign speakers > English.
Māori language > Self-instruction.
Maori (Langue) > Manuels pour anglophones.
Maori (Langue) > Auto-enseignement.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Miscellaneous.
Māori language
Matareo.
Reo Māori.
Māori language materials.
Textbooks
Self-instruction
Textbooks > for English speakers
Textbooks.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The phrase
  • The articles
  • The positional particles nei, na, ra, and the definitives teenei, teenaa, teeraa
  • Nominal sentences
  • Active and stative verbal sentences
  • Comments introduced by i and ki
  • Passives
  • Verbal particles
  • Personal pronouns
  • Use of the personal pronouns
  • Locative particles ki, kei, i, hei
  • Locative bases
  • Dominant and subordinate possession : the particles a and o
  • The possessive particles ta and to, and the T-class possessives
  • The definitives
  • Parts of speech : the base classes
  • Prepositions
  • The possessive prepositions na, no, ma, mo
  • The imperative with universals
  • Negative transforms of verbal sentences
  • The directional particles mai, atu, iho, ake
  • The manner particles rawa, tonu, kee, noa, pea, koa
  • The verbal phrase
  • The actor emphatic
  • Negative transforms of nominal sentences
  • Time
  • Derived nouns
  • The causative prefix whaka- and derived universals
  • Kei meaning "lest" or "don't"
  • The pseudo-verbal continuous with i te and kei te
  • Complex phrases
  • The uses and meanings of i and ki in non-initial phrases
  • The imperative with statives
  • Subordinate clauses with kia
  • The proper article a
  • The continuative particle ana
  • Interjections and interjectory phrases
  • The structure of the simple verbal sentence
  • No te and its various meanings
  • Reduplication
  • The biposed particle anoo
  • Numerals
  • Taua and teetahi
  • The locatives koo, konei, konaa, koraa, reira
  • Agreement of qualifying bases and manner particles with passives and derived nouns
  • Hoomai, hoatu and hoake
  • The postposed particle hoki
  • The structure of the Maori phrases
  • Subordinate constituents of complex sentences
  • Explanatory predicates to stative sentences
  • Reflexive-intensive pronouns and possessive pronouns
  • Days, weeks, months and years
  • More about conditional constituents : "if" and "when"
  • A brief guide to pronunciation.

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