Spoken Chamorro : : With Grammatical Notes and Glossary (Second Edition) / / Donald M. Topping.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Topping, Donald M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Topping, D. M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: PALI Language Texts—Micronesia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Spoken Chamorro is designed to enable the student to learn to speak and understand the Chamorro language the way native speakers do in their everyday activities. This second edition has been revised to incorporate the spelling conventions adopted by the Marianas Orthography Committee in January 1971, and suggestions made by teachers who have used the text in the classroom. The basic material in the text remains unchanged, the work of the author and Pedro M. Ogo, principal of Rota Elementary and High School, who is a native speaker of the language. As much as possible, the lessons exclude regionalisms, presenting the language as it is heard generally on Guam, Saipan, Rota, and elsewhere throughout the Mariana Islands.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Leksion Unu—Greetings; idioms and classroom expressions; possessive pronouns hu, mu, ña; personal article si; gof. -- Leksion Dos—Equational sentences; intransitive sentences; yo'-type pronouns; inclusive-exclusive distinction; gi-giya; kao; -urn- verbalizer. -- Leksion Tres—Stative and transitive sentences with plural subjects; manu nai; special verbs guaha and taya'; possessive pronouns. -- Leksion Kuatro—Negative particle ti; reduplicated and non-reduplicated forms of intransitive clauses; question words mangge and manu nai; malago' plus infinitive; nihi. -- Leksion Sinko—Hayi + possessive; hu-type pronouns; transitive clauses; este, enao, ayu; nihi ta; hafa + transitive clause; modification. -- Leksion Sais—Definite and indefinite object; nominal as subject; ayu + na + nominal; names of popular foods; hafa + possessives. -- Leksion Siette—Pronoun objects; definite-indefinite objects; ya-hu; na'i; noun-noun modification; intensifier ha'. -- Leksion Ocho—Future tense; malago', guaiya, ya- contrasted; time words agupa', nigap, etc. -- Leksion Nuebi—Future tense continued; hafa plus ya- and malago' plus object; malago' plus noun; periods of the day; siempre; duspues, antes di; desde, ginen plus time; ahe', taya', munga. -- Leksion Dies—Siña plus verbal complement; iyo-guaha; tungo' plus verbal complement; desde...asta; ngai'an nai; anai. -- Leksion Onse—Review. -- Leksion Dosse—Locative words magi, guatu, guini, guenao, guihi; prefix ke-; na plus embedded sentence; yanggen. -- Leksion Tresse-Emphatic pronouns; actor focus constructions; nai; location words. -- Leksion Katotse—Imperative; taimanu; tai + location; verb-like directional and location words. -- Leksion Kinse—Nominalizing infix -in-; causative construction; mohon; manu "which"; kuantos. -- Leksion Dies i Sais—Reciprocal; kosa ki; hafa na; gaña; telling time; number formation. -- Leksion Dies i Siette—Review. -- Leksion Dies i Ocho—Goal focus; maleffa plus direct object; maleffa plus embedded sentence. -- Leksion Dies i Nuebi—Nominalized verbs; passive voice; synchronic constructions; dates and numbers; comparative degree. -- Leksion Bente—Referential focus; comparative degree; days of the week; nisisita; telling time; Taga' story concluded. -- Leksion Bente i Unu—Benefactive focus; reflexive; taimanu plus passive; debidi; fan...an; story of Ukudu. -- Leksion Bente i Dos—Similative prefix acha-; fina'-; instrumental superlative; mi-; agentive -um-; chat-. -- Leksion Bente i Tres—Agentive reduplication; agentive ga'-; "how" questions. -- Leksion Bente i Kuatro—Abilitative suffix -on; la- "a little"; ni "not even"; ha- "usually"; an- "leftover"; supplementary dialogues on Chamorro social patterns. -- Glossary