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 Mar...

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