Lets Learn Maori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biggs, Bruce.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Māori language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Māori language.

Māori language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Māori language.

Local Subjects:

Māori language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Māori language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>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 discussed in a numbered section or subsection of the book and a combined vocabulary and index provides a reference system.</div>

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The phrase""; ""1.1 The phrase as a pause unit of speech""; ""1.2 The grammar of the phrase""; ""2 The articles""; ""2.1 The indefinite aricle he""; ""2.2 The definite articles te and nga""; ""2.21 Te is singular, nga is plural""; ""2.22 Te as a class marker""; ""2.23 Nga with English mass nouns""; ""2.3 The proper article a""; ""3 The positional particles nei, na, ra, and the definitives teenei, teenaa, teeraa""; ""3.1 Nei, na and ra postposed to bases""; ""3.2 Pronunciation of na and ra""

""3.3 Nei, na and ra combined with the definite article""""4 Nominal sentences""; ""4.1 Indefinite phrase and common definite phrase""; ""4.2 Indefinite phrase and proper name""; ""4.3 Two definite phrases""; ""4.4 Proper name plus definite phrase""; ""4.5 Subject in focus""; ""5 Active and stative verbal sentences""; ""5.1 Active sentences""; ""5.2 Stative sentences""; ""5.3 Pronunciation of ka""; ""5.4 Personal names as subject""; ""6 Comments introduced by i and ki""; ""6.1 General""; ""6.2 Comments beginning with ki 'motion towards'""; ""6.21 Ki comments containing universals""

""6.3 Comments beginning with i 'connective'""""6.31 Stative sentences with comments in i""; ""6.32 Active sentences with comments in i""; ""7 Passives""; ""7.1 Passive transforms of active sentences""; ""7.2 Personal names in passive sentences""; ""7.3 The shapes of the passive suffix""; ""7.4 Examples""; ""8 Verbal particles""; ""8.1 General""; ""8.2 The pardigm of verbal particles""; ""8.3 Examples of the use of verbal particles""; ""9 Personal pronouns""; ""9.1 English and Maori pronominal systems contrasted""; ""9.2 Dual and Plural numbers""; ""9.3 Inclusive and exclusive first person""

""9.4 Table of personal pronouns""""9.5 Dialectal variation""; ""10 Use of the personal pronouns""; ""10.1 Pronouns as subject of a sentence""; ""10.2 Pronouns as comment in a sentence""; ""10.3 Pronunciation note""; ""10.4 Dialectal note""; ""11 Locative particles ki, kei, i, hei""; ""11.1 Position and meaning of the locative particles""; ""11.2 Ki""; ""11.3 Kei""; ""11.4 I""; ""11.5 Hei""; ""11.6 Personals after locative particles""; ""11.7 Dialectal variation""; ""11.8 Examples""; ""12 Locative bases""; ""12.1 Definition of locatives""; ""12.2 Common locatives""; ""12.3 Place names""

""12.4 Common idioms containing locatives""""12.5 Examples""; ""13 Dominant and subordinatepossession: the particles a and o""; ""13.1 Distinction between dominant and subordinate possession""; ""13.2 Summary of the uses of a and o""; ""13.3 Pronunciation note""; ""13.4 Examples""; ""14 The possessive particles ta and to, and the T-class possessives""; ""14.1 Te a, te o, and ta, to""; ""14.2 The T-class possessives""; ""14.3 Examples""; ""15 The definitives""; ""15.1 The composition of the definitives""; ""15.2 Full inventory of definitives""; ""15.3 Examples""

""15.4 The neutral T-class possessives taku, too, tana""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-86940-642-7

OCLC:

863821927