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Authors: W. D. Alexander
ISBN-13: 9780486434322, ISBN-10: 048643432X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: Bilingual Edition (English/Hawaiian)
The best available primer in the grammar of the Hawaiian language. Its introduction to the structure and idiosyncrasies of the language offers an opportunity to study the genuine, uncorrupted idiom as spoken by older Hawaiians of a century ago. Employs the standard terms and divisions of European grammars, with clear explanations and numerous examples.
Part I. | ||
Orthoepy | 5 | |
General Remarks on Etymology | 7 | |
Gender of Nouns | 8 | |
Number of Nouns | 8 | |
List of Prepositions | 8 | |
Distinction between A and O | 9 | |
On Ka and Ko | 10 | |
On Na and No | 11 | |
On I, Ia and Io | 11 | |
The Vocative Case | 11 | |
The Articles | 11 | |
Indefinite Article | 11 | |
Definite Articles | 11 | |
The O Emphatic | 12 | |
Adjectives, How Compared | 13 | |
Numerals | 13 | |
Cardinal Numerals | 13 | |
Ordinal and Distributive Numbers | 14 | |
Fractions | 14 | |
Personal Pronouns | 14 | |
Possessive Pronouns | 16 | |
Demonstrative Pronouns | 17 | |
Interrogative Pronouns | 17 | |
Indefinite Pronouns | 18 | |
Verbs | 19 | |
Tense Signs and Imperative Particles | 19 | |
The Particles Ana and No | 21 | |
Passive Voice | 21 | |
Causative Form | 21 | |
Verbal Directives, &c. | 22 | |
The Relative Particle Ai | 22 | |
Adverbs | 23 | |
Compound Prepositions, &c. | 24 | |
Conjunctions | 24 | |
Interjections | 25 | |
Formation of Words | 25 | |
Part II. | ||
Introductory Remarks | 27 | |
Elements of a Simple Sentence | 28 | |
The Subject | 28 | |
Position of the Subject | 28 | |
Names of Persons Preceded by O | 28 | |
Position of Subject in Negative Sentences | 28 | |
Position of Subject after Emphatic Adverbial Phrases | 29 | |
Nominative Absolute | 29 | |
Attributive or Adjective Element | 30 | |
Apposition | 30 | |
Attributive Adjectives | 30 | |
Numerals | 30 | |
Adjectives used as Nouns, &c. | 31 | |
Use of the Articles | 32 | |
Indefinite Article | 32 | |
Definite Articles | 32 | |
Omission of Articles | 32 | |
The Predicate | 33 | |
Mode of expressing the Verb "To Be" | 33 | |
Verbs | 36 | |
Verbal Nouns | 37 | |
The Verb as an Adjective | 37 | |
The Infinitive. The Verb "Can" | 38 | |
Object | 39 | |
Predicate Nouns | 40 | |
Adverbs | 40 | |
Prepositions | 41 | |
Ellipsis | 41 | |
The Possessive Construction | 41 | |
Mode of expressing the Verb "To Have" | 42 | |
On the Use of Na | 42 | |
Interrogative Sentences | 43 | |
Complex and Compound Sentences | 44 | |
The dependent clause used as Subject | 44 | |
Relative or Adjective Clauses | 45 | |
Adverbial Clauses | 47 | |
Final Clauses | 49 | |
Clauses which express Comparison | 49 | |
Clauses which express Cause or Reason | 50 | |
Conditional Clauses | 50 | |
Objective Clauses | 51 | |
Specimens of Hawaiian Sentences Analyzed | 51 |