Spoken Marshallese : : An Intensive Language Course with Grammatical Notes and Glossary / / Byron W. Bender.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bender, Byron W.,
• MitwirkendeR: Bender, Byron W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: PALI Language Texts—Micronesia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

Spoken Marshallese is designed to fill the need for a basic text in the language of the Marshall Islands. It will give students a fluency in the language and a feeling for its structure, enabling him or her to converse freely on a broad range of subjects without additional formal instruction.The Marshallese-English Dictionary, by Takaji Abo, Byron W. Bender, Alfred Capelle, and Tony DeBrum, would be useful as a supplement to this text.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Map of the Marshall Islands -- Introduction -- Lesson One. Pronouns; Going Places; Where? -- Lesson Two. Someone is going; when? yes-no questions; negative; future; conditional -- Lesson Three. Do you have a/some...?; possessive; Where is your/my...?; Here/there it is; I don't know. -- Lesson Four. More comings and goings--hither, thither, and yon: directionals; future negative; the construct particle; the locative particle -- Lesson Five. To and from; going with a purpose; wearing clothes and other things; arrivals and departures -- Lesson Six. Names; ages; numbers; telling time; days of the week, months of the year; some demonstratives -- Lesson Seven. Time expressions--from the year before the year before last to the year after next -- Lesson Eight. Demonstratives: 'Be quite specific about where it is, whether it's visible or not, plural or not, and if plural, whether human or not.'; some kin terms. -- Lesson Nine. Past tense; sentence, personal, and locative demonstratives -- Lesson Ten. -n: mild commands and more futures; kar and some contrary to fact questions and answers; bey 'so that' -- Lesson Eleven. Foods and eating; transitives and intransitives; the causative prefix. -- Lesson Twelve. Health and sicknesses; different people's medicines; some superlative idioms; similarities and differences; and being careful. -- Lesson Thirteen. More health problems; by (one's) self; the lost has been found; general vs. specific statements. -- Lesson Fourteen. Occupations; adjective-like words; and singular-plural forms of such dimensional words; the reflexive katey. -- Lesson Fifteen. Additional greetings; requests and polite refusals; the coconut. -- Lesson Sixteen. 'Do you know how?'; 'I used to.' ; 'Teach me.'; nowadays and in the olden times. -- Lesson Seventeen. Siblings and cousins; after graduation; more on foods; at the store. -- Lesson Eighteen. 'You and who else?' 'By myself alone'; 'Why?'; 'Because.'. -- Lesson Nineteen. More store scenes; double consonant intransitives; kab and hawelep...yem; colors. -- Lesson Twenty. More causatives; distributives; compound verbs. -- Lesson Twenty-one. Flags and more on Congress; distributives of color words; 'and then when'. -- Lesson Twenty-two. Relatives. -- Lesson Twenty-three. Yewen vs. rahan; this particular one; becoming; look alike. -- Lesson Twenty-four. More past tense, contrary-to-fact, and conditional practice; more on the coconut; several idiomatic expressions. -- Lesson Twenty-five. Beverages; more distributives; arrowroot and divination. -- Lesson Twenty-six. Working and getting accustomed; more negatives with ja-. -- Lesson Twenty-seven. Animals ; more on directionals. -- Lesson Twenty-eight. Drinking and eating; washing; common questions; personal names; Aah; more Slot I directionals. -- Lesson Twenty-nine. Fishing; review of directionals; some miscellaneous patterns. -- Lesson Thirty. More fishing; adjective-like words with and without ka-; directional locatives with tiw; possessive suffixes on units of time; miscellaneous patterns. -- Glossary -- Finder List -- Index