| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 453 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"This book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl and offers a comprehensive and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar, and vocabulary"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Preliminary lesson: phonology and orthography; 1. Instransitive verbs, word order, absolutive suffix; 2. Nouns and nominal predicates, the plural of nouns, questions and negation; 3. transitive verbs; 4. Emphatic, interrogative, demonstrative and negative pronouns; 5. Irregular verbs, introduction to locatives; 6. Directional and reflexive prefixes; 7. Quantifiers, zan, ye, oc; 8. Preterite tense; 9. Imperative/optative, vocative, future, imperfect; 10. Possessed forms of the noun; 11. Inherent possession, the suffix -yō, 'to have', possessive nouns; 12. Nominal suffixes, "adjectives"; 13. The principal locative suffixes; 14. Coordination, phrases of time and manner; 15. Impersonal and passive verb forms; Review exercises; 16. Agent nouns, the -ni form; 17. Compound nouns, verbal incorporation; 18. Bitransitive verbs, ambitransitive verbs; 19. Causative verbs; 20. Applicative verbs; 21. Honorific and deprecatory verbs; 22. Pluperfect, counterfactual, vetitive, directional conjugations; 23. Morphological peculiarities of certain nouns and verbs; 24. More on locatives; 25. More on quantifiers; 26. Details about number and person, indefinite pronouns and adverbs; 27. Compound verbs; 28. Reduplication outside of the plural, more on verbs; 29. Derivative verbs; 30. Derivative nouns; 31. Noun clauses; 32. Attributives, relative clauses, predicative verbs, predicative constructions, semi-auxiliaries; 33. Comparisons, clauses of result, purpose and cause; 34. Conditions, more particles; 35. Temporal clauses, particles, interjections; Appendix 1: traditional orthography; Appendix 2: the Aztec calendar; Appendix 3: paradigms; Appendix 4: key to the exercises; Reading passages; Vocabulary. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translation from French to English. |
| Subject |
Nahuatl language.
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Nahuatl language. |
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Nahuatl literature.
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Nahuatl literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mackay, Christopher S., 1962-
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| Added Title |
Introduction à la langue et à la littérature aztèques. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010024067
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Launey, Michel. Introduction à la langue et à la littérature aztèques. English. Introduction to classical Nahuatl. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521518406 (DLC) 2010015176 (OCoLC)608491419 |
| ISBN |
9780511990588 (electronic book) |
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0511990588 (electronic book) |
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9780511988769 (electronic book) |
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0511988761 (electronic book) |
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9780511992551 (electronic book) |
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0511992556 (electronic book) |
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9780511778001 (electronic book) |
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0511778007 (electronic book) |
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9780521518406 |
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0521518407 |
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9780521732291 |
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0521732298 |
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