Hawaiian Grammar

, by Elbert, Samuel H.; Puku, Mary Kawena

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ISBN: 9780824824891 | 082482489X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/2001

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Without question, this is the definitive grammar of the Hawaiian language. Indeed it is the first attempt at a comprehensive treatment of the subject since W. D. Alexander published his concise Short Synopsis of the Most Essential Points in Hawaiian Grammar in 1864. This grammar is intended as a companion to the Hawaiian Dictionary, by the same authors.

Tables	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Abbreviations and Explanations	p. xvii
Previous Studies of Hawaiian Grammar	p. 1
Chamisso	p. 1
Humboldt and Buschmann	p. 3
Hale	p. 4
Andrews and Alexander	p. 4
Primitives and Evolution	p. 6
The Last Hundred Years	p. 8
The Sound System	p. 10
Consonants (p, k, ', h, l, m, n, w)	p. 10
Vowels (i, i, e, e, a, a, u, u, o, o)	p. 14
Word Stress	p. 16
Junctures	p. 18
Stress in Phrases and Sentences	p. 18
Pitch Levels	p. 21
Natural Fast Speech	p. 22
Dialect Variations	p. 23
Ni'ihau Dialect	p. 23
n for l and Glottal Stop for l and k	p. 25
Loan Words	p. 27
English as a Source	p. 27
The Word for Horse	p. 30
Biblical Terms	p. 31
Other Sources	p. 33
Relative Frequencies of Sounds	p. 34
Drift	p. 35
Notes on Orthography	p. 36
From Sentence to Affix	p. 39
Sentences	p. 39
Phrases	p. 41
Words	p. 43
Particles	p. 44
Affixes	p. 44
Classification of Verbs; Verblike Idioms	p. 46
Basis of the Classification	p. 46
Intransitive Verbs (vi)	p. 48
Transitive Verbs (vt)	p. 48
Stative Verbs (vs)	p. 49
Multiple-class Verbs	p. 51
Verblike Idioms	p. 54
Verb Markers	p. 57
Classification of Verb Markers	p. 57
Aspect Markers	p. 57
Tense Marker	p. 60
Mood Markers	p. 61
Verb Affixes and Thematic Consonants	p. 64
Prefixes and Reduplications	p. 64
Reduplications	p. 64
Types of Reduplication	p. 65
Meanings of Reduplications	p. 66
Prefixes to Verbs: Middle Layer	p. 68
Prefixes with Causative/Simulative Meanings	p. 68
Prefixes with Qualitative/Stative Meanings	p. 71
Other Prefixes	p. 74
The Causative/Simulative ho'o- and Its Alternants	p. 76
Rare Suffixes	p. 78
Thematic Consonants and the Suffixes and Particles They Introduce	p. 79
Inventory	p. 79
Nominalizers	p. 79
Passive/Imperatives	p. 83
Transitivizers	p. 86
Possible Analyses	p. 88
Postposed Phrasal Elements	p. 90
Some Postposed Particles	p. 90
Directionals	p. 91
ai	p. 96
o-Demonstratives ala, la/-la, ana	p. 99
Particles Following the o-Demonstratives	p. 100
Nouns and Substitutes, Locative Nouns, Compounds, Qualifiers	p. 105
Nouns	p. 105
Pronouns	p. 107
Demonstratives	p. 110
ke-Demonstratives	p. 110
o-Demonstratives nei and na	p. 111
ia	p. 112
ua	p. 113
neia	p. 114
pe-Demonstratives	p. 114
Possessives	p. 115
k-Possessives	p. 116
o- and n-Possessives	p. 118
Interrogatives	p. 119
Locative Nouns	p. 120
Compounds and Qualifiers	p. 123
Noun Compounds	p. 123
Verb and Noun-Verb Compounds	p. 124
Compound Proper Names	p. 126
Other Compounds	p. 126
Noun + Qualifier Sequences	p. 127
Prepositions	p. 131
Inventory of Prepositions	p. 131
Subject Marker: 'o/o	p. 131
Multifunctional i/ia and io	p. 133
i/ia	p. 133
i/ia/io: Definite Locative	p. 134
Locative/Instrumental/Manner: ma	p. 135
a: Place to (Emphatic)	p. 136
Possessives	p. 136
a- and o-Possessives	p. 136
Verbs with a and o	p. 140
o-Possessives	p. 142
Fronted Possessives	p. 143
Comitative/Instrumental/Similitude: me	p. 145
Ablative: mai	p. 145
Agentive: e	p. 146
Vocative: e/o	p. 146
na and no	p. 147
Simulative: pe	p. 150
Appositional Prepositions	p. 150
Prepositional Phrases in Verbless Sentences	p. 152
Determiners, Numerals, and Plurals	p. 153
k-Words	p. 153
Articles	p. 154
Numerals	p. 158
Other Plural Markers	p. 162
Conjunctions and Complex Sentences	p. 164
Conjunctions	p. 164
Combining Phrases: Order	p. 168
Combining Sentences	p. 169
A Complex Sentence Analyzed	p. 171
The Role of Fronting: A Summary	p. 172
Interjections	p. 174
Glossary	p. 179
References	p. 185
Index	p. 191
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