Na'vi Grammar

This is the landing page and table of contents for the main grammar corpus.

1. Introduction
2. Letters and Sounds
	1. Sound System
		1. Consonants
		2. Vowels
		3. Pseudovowels
		4. Syllable Structure
		5. Stress Accent
		6. Spoken Alphabet
	2. Lenition
		1. Glottal Stop
		2. Adpositions
		3. Number Prefixes
		4. Question Prenoun
		5. Numbers
		6. Proper Nouns
	3. Morphophonology
		1. Vowel Contraction
		2. Pseudovowel Contraction
		3. Affect Infix Epenthesis
		4. Nasal Assimilation
		5. Vowel Harmony
		6. Elision
		7. Other Phonetic Processes
	4. Orthographic Conventions
		1. Proper Names
		2. Quotation
		3. Etymological Spelling
		4. Attributive Phrase Hyphenation
3. Morphology
	1. The Noun
		1. Cases
		2. Foreign Nouns
		3. Indefinite -o
		4. Number
	2. The Pronoun
		1. The Basic Pronouns
		2. Ceremonial/Honorific Pronouns
		3. Lahe
	3. Prenouns
		1. Fì-
		2. Tsa-
		3. -Pe+
		4. Fra-
		5. Fne-
		6. Contraction
		7. Combinations
	4. Correlatives
		1. Questions
		2. Fì'u and Tsaw in Clause Nominalization
		3. Fmawn and Tì'eyng in Clause Nominalization
	5. The Adjective
		1. Attribution
	6. The Verb
		1. Infix Location
		2. Pre-first Position
		3. First Position
		4. Second Position
		5. Examples
4. Numbers
	1. Cardinal Numbers
		1. The "Ones"
		2. Powers of Eight
		3. Dependent Forms
	2. Ordinal Numbers
		1. Suffix -ve
	3. Fractions
		1. -Pxì
	4. Other Forms
		1. Alo
		2. -lie
		3. Alien Digits
5. Word Building
	1. Derivational Affixes
		1. Prefixes
		2. Negative Prefix
		3. Adverbial "a-"
		4. Prefix with Infix
		5. Agent Suffixes
		6. Diminutive Suffix
		7. -Nay Suffix
		8. Gender Suffixes
	2. Reduplication
		1. Iteration
		2. Shift in Degree
	3. Compounds
		1. Headedness
		2. Apocope
		3. "Si" Construction
	4. Common and Noteworthy Compound Elements
		1. -fkeyk
		2. Hì'-
		3. -iva
		4. -nga'
		5. -pin
		6. Pxi-
		7. Sna-
		8. -tsim
		9. Tsuk-
		10. -tswo
		11. -vi
		12. "Kä-" and "Za-"
	5. Time
		1. The Current Time
		2. The Previous Time
		3. The Next Time
6. Syntax
	1. Transitivity and Ergativity
		1. Transitivity
		2. Tripartite
	2. Noun Phrases and Adjectives
		1. Number
		2. Indefinite
		3. Free Choice Indefinites
		4. Apposition
		5. Adjective Attribution
		6. Predication
		7. Comparison
		8. Direct Address
	3. Pronouns
		1. Gender
		2. Number
		3. Similarity
		4. Fko
		5. Sno
		6. Lahe
		7. PRO-Drop
		8. Contrastive Demonstratives
	4. Use of the Cases
		1. Subjective
		2. Agentive
		3. Patientive
		4. Dative
		5. Genitive
		6. Topical
	5. Adpositions
		1. Position
		2. Lenition
	6. Adverbs
		1. Degree and Quantity
		2. With Gerunds
		3. Correlative Comparisons
		4. Fìtxan and Nìftxan
		5. Keng
		6. Li
		7. Nìwotx
		8. Nìfya'o
		9. "Kop" and "nìteng"
		10. Sunkesun
	7. Aspect and Tense
		1. The Role of Context
		2. The Unmarked Verb
		3. Aspect
		4. Simultaneous Imperfective
		5. Anterior Perfective
		6. Punctual Perfective
		7. Tense
		8. Proximal Tense
		9. Intentional Future
	8. Subjunctive
		1. Optative
		2. Nìrangal
		3. Modal Complement
		4. Modals with Subclauses
		5. Other Uses
	9. Participles and Gerunds
		1. Participles
		2. Gerunds
	10. Reflexive
		1. True Reflexives
		2. Intransitive Reflexives
		3. Detransitive
		4. Reciprocal
	11. Causative
		1. Causative of Intransitive Verb
		2. Causative of Transitive Verb
	12. Ambitransitivity
		1. Omitted Object
		2. Causative
	13. Commands
		1. Unmarked
		2. With the Subjunctive
		3. Prohibitions
	14. Questions
		1. Polar Questions
		2. Ftxey... Fuke
		3. Wh-Questions
		4. Tag Question
		5. Conjectural Questions
		6. Choice Questions
	15. Affect and Evidence
		1. Affect
		2. Evidence
	16. Negation
		1. Simple Negation
		2. Pleonastic Negation
		3. Kaw'it
	17. Complex Sentences
		1. Tense and Aspect in Dependent Subjunctives
		2. Purpose
		3. Asyndeton
	18. Relative Clause and Phrase Attribution
		1. Particle "A"
		2. Referential Hierarchy
		3. Other Attributive Phrases
		4. Clause Nominalization
		5. Nominalized Clauses with Adpositions
		6. Nominalizations as Conjunctions
	19. Conditional Sentences
		1. General
		2. Future Conditional
		3. Hypothetical
		4. Contrafactual
		5. Imperatives in Conditions
	20. Conjunctions
		1. Alu
		2. Ftxey
		3. Fu
		4. Ki
		5. Sì
		6. Tengkrr
		7. Tìk
		8. Tsnì
		9. Ulte
	21. Direct Quotation
		1. San... sìk
		2. Questions
		3. Transitivity
		4. Quotation Nominalization
	22. Particles
		1. Ko
		2. Nang
		3. Pak
		4. Tut
		5. Tse
		6. ììì
	23. Other Notable Words
		1. Sweylu
7. Pragmatics and Discourse
	1. Constituent Order
		1. Free Word Order
		2. SOV, SVO, VSO
		3. Word Order Effects
		4. Focus
		5. The English Passive
	2. Topic-Comment
		1. Topical Case
		2. Topical Role
		3. Using the Topical
	3. Register
		1. Formal Register
		2. Poetic Register
		3. Colloquial Register
		4. Slang
		5. Clipped Register