An introduction to classical Nahuatl
By: Michel Launey ; translated and adapted by Christopher Mackay
Contributors: Mackay, Christopher S., 1962-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780521518406; 9780521732291
Subjects: Nahuatl literature; Nahuatl language
Work titles: Introduction à la langue et à la littérature aztèques
Description: "This book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl and offers a comprehensive and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar, and vocabulary"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translation from French to English.
Table of contents: title: Preliminary lesson: phonetics and writing; title: 1. Instransitive verbs, word order, absolutive suffix; title: 2. Nouns and nominal predicates, the plural of nouns, questions and negation; title: 3. Transitive verbs; title: 4. Emphatic, interrogative, demonstrative and negative pronouns; title: 5. Irregular verbs, introduction to locatives; title: 6. Directional and reflexive prefixes; title: 7. Quantifiers, zan, ye, oc; title: 8. Preterite tense; title: 9. Imperative/optative, vocative, future, imperfect; title: 10. Possessed forms of the noun; title: 11. Inherent possession, the suffix -yō, 'to have', possessive nouns; title: 12. Nominal suffixes, "adjectives"; title: 13. The principal locative suffixes; title: 14. Coordination, phrases of time and manner; title: 15. Impersonal and passive verb forms; title: 16. Agent nouns, the -ni form; title: 17. Compound nouns, verbal incorporation; title: 18. Bitransitive verbs, ambitransitive verbs; title: 19. Causative verbs; title: 20. Applicative verbs; title: 21. Honorific and deprecatory verbs; title: 22. Pluperfect, counterfactual, vetitive, directional conjugations; title: 23. Morphological peculiarities of certain nouns and verbs; title: 24. More on locatives; title: 25. More on quantifiers; title: 26. Details about number and person, indefinite pronouns and adverbs; title: 27. Compound verbs; title: 28. Reduplication outside of the plural, more on verbs; title: 29. Derivative verbs; title: 30. Derivative nouns; title: 31. Noun clauses; title: 32. Attributives, relative clauses, copula verbs, semi-auxiliaries; title: 33. Comparisons, clauses of result, purpose and cause; title: 34. Conditions, more particles; title: 35. Temporal clauses, particles, interjections; title: Appendix 1. Traditional orthography; title: Appendix 2. Inflexional patterns; title: Appendix 3. The Aztec calendar; title: Appendix 4. Key to the exercises; title: Nahuatl-to-English vocabulary; title: English-to-Nahuatl vocabulary.