LINGUIST List 22.3191 Wed Aug 10 2011 Books: Anthropological Ling/Historical Ling/Semantics/Syntax: Launey Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Joyce Reid , An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl: Launey Message 1: An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl: Launey Date: 09-Aug-2011 From: Joyce Reid <jreidcambridge.org> Subject: An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl: Launey E-mail this message to a friend Title: An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl Published: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge University Press                 http://us.cambridge.org Author: Michel Launey Hardback: ISBN: 9780521518406 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 90.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9780521518406 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 60.00 Paperback: ISBN: 9780521732291 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 24.99 Paperback: ISBN: 9780521732291 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 39.99 Abstract: Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar, and vocabulary. It is divided into 35 chapters, beginning with basic syntax and progressing gradually to more complex structures. Each grammatical concept is illustrated clearly with examples, exercises, and passages for translation. A key is provided to allow students to check their answers. By far the most approachable textbook of Nahuatl available, this book will be an excellent teaching tool both for classroom use and for readers pursuing independent study of the language. It will be an invaluable resource to anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, archaeologists, and linguists alike. Preliminary lesson: phonology and orthography 1. Intransitive 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. Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics                             Historical Linguistics                             Semantics                             Syntax Subject Language(s): Nahuatl, Classical (nci) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=57131 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. 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