Title: Let's learn Maori : a guide to the study of the Maori language /
Authors: Biggs, Bruce, 1921-
Publisher: Auckland University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Maori language Textbooks for foreign speakers English.
Abstract: "This work comprises a textbook and self-help guide to the study of the Maori language. It is also a complete grammar reference, covering parts of speech, the structure of each type of phrase and the combinations of phrases that form simple sentences"--Publisher's description.
Contents: The phrase -- The articles -- The positiional particles nei, na, ra, and the definitives teenei, teenaa, teeraa -- Nominal sentences -- ACtive and stative verbal sentences -- Comments introducted by i and ki -- Passives -- Verbal particles -- Personal pronouns -- use of the personal pronounds -- Locative particles ki, kei, i, hei -- Locative bases -- Dominant and subordinate possession: the particles a and o -- The possessive particles ta and to, and the T-class possessives -- The definitives -- Parts of speech: the base classes -- Prepositions -- The possessive prepositions na, no, ma, mo -- The imperative with universals -- Negative transforms of verbal sentences -- The directional particles mai, atu, iho, ake -- The manner particles rawa, tonu, kee, noa, pea, koa -- The verbal phrase -- The actor emphatic -- Negative transforms of nominal sentences -- Time -- Derived nouns -- The causative prefix whaka- and derived universals -- Kei meaning "lest" or "don't" -- The pseudo-verbal continuous with i te and kei te -- Complex phrases -- The ises and meanings of i and ki in non-initial phrases -- The imperative with statives -- Subordinate clauses with kia -- The proper article a -- The continuous particle ana -- Interjections and interjectory phrases -- The structure of the simple verbal sentence -- No te and its various meanings -- Reduplication -- The biposed particle anoo -- Numerals -- Taua and teetahi -- The locatives koo, konei, konaa, koraa, reira -- Agreement of qualifying bases and manner particles with passives and derived nouns -- Hoomai, hoatu and hoake -- The postposed particle hoki -- The structure of the Maori phrase -- Subordinate constituents of complex sentences -- Explanatory predicate to stative sentences -- Reflexive-intensive pronouns and possessive pronouns -- Days, weeks, months and years -- More about conditional constituents: "if" and "when" -- A brief guide to pronunciation.