Âhkami-Nêhiyawêtân : Let's Keep Speaking Cree / Solomon Ratt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratt, Solomon, author.

Series:

Continuing Languages

Continuing Languages Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cree language.

Cree language--Texts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2022]

Summary:

An important language resource that helps intermediate nêhiyawêwin learners begin to understand more advanced grammar of the language.Building on mâci-nêhiyawêwin / Beginning Cree, Solomon Ratt's first influential Cree language resource, âhkami-nêhiyawêtân / Let's Keep Speaking Cree helps intermediate nêhiyawêwin learners begin to understand more advanced grammar of the language. The textbook is more than a language textbook though: it includes a series of the author's original stories written in Cree, complete with comprehension questions, making it ideal for self-study as well as classroom use.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 BASIC CONVERSATIONS

1. 1. Cree Sound System

1. 2. Basic Conversations

CHAPTER 2 KINSHIP

2. 1. Cree Kinship Terms

2. 2. Exercises

CHAPTER 3 SEASONAL AND DAILY ACTIVITIES

3. 1. Numbers and Dates

3. 2. Months and Seasons

3. 3. Days of the Week

3. 4. More on the Days of the Week

3. 5. Time of Day

CHAPTER 4 TIME AND OTHER TEMPORAL WORDS

4. 1. Time

4. 2. Its About Time

4. 3. Compound Sentences

4. 4. Speaking about Time and the Days of the Week

CHAPTER 5 INTRANSITIVE VERBS

5. 1. Animate Intransitive Verbs (vai)

5. 2. Animate Intransitive Verb Charts

5. 3. vai Paradigms

5. 4. Indefinite Actor Verb

5. 5. Subordinate Clauses

CHAPTER 6 TRANSITIVE VERBS

6. 1. Transitive Inanimate VerbsClass 1 (vti-1)

6. 2. Transitive Inanimate Verb Charts Class 1

6. 3. vti-1 Paradigms

6. 4. Values in Cree

Chapter 7 POSSESSIVE FORMS, BODY PARTS, AND SHOPPING

7. 1. Possessive Forms

7. 2. Body Parts

7. 3. Shopping

CHAPTER 8 TRANSITIVE ANIMATE VERBS DIRECT FORMS (VTA-DIRECT)

8. 1. Transitive Animate Verbs

8. 2. Transitive Animate Verb Charts

8. 3. VTA Paradigms

CHAPTER 9 TRANSITIVE ANIMATE VERBS INVERSE AND REFLEXIVE FORMS

9. 1. Inverse VTAS

9. 2. VTA: Reflexives

9. 3. Text Exercises with VTA-Direct, -Inverse, and -Reflexive Forms

9. 4. Indicative and Conjunct Forms of VTA-Direct, -Inverse, and -Reflexive

CHAPTER 10 STORIES

10. 1. Stories to Inspire

10. 2. Stories with Audio

Answers

chapter 1 exercises

chapter 2 exercises

chapter 3 exercises

chapter 4 exercises

chapter 5 exercises

chapter 6 exercises

chapter 7 exercises

chapter 8 exercises

chapter 9 exercises

chapter 10 exercises

Glossary

Bibliography

About the author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889778474

0889778477

9780889778481

0889778485

OCLC:

1311319665