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Contents
Preface.............................................................................................................
7
Introduction...................................................................................................
8
Part 1 The written form of the sounds of te reo Maori
1 Pronunciation and the written form of te reo
Maori..................... 16
Part 2 Discovering the new grammar
2 Sentences, phrases,
words.................................................................
28
3 Verb phrases and noun
phrases.......................................................
34
4 Classification of
words.......................................................................
39
Part 3 The new grammar
Section A: Base words
5 Action
verbs.........................................................................................
52
6 Stative
verbs........................................................................................
61
7 Some further verb
constructions......................................................
67
8 Common
nouns...................................................................................
71
9 Personal nouns and personal
pronouns.......................................... 76
10 Location
nouns....................................................................................
83
Section B: The particles and determiners
11 The particles: an
overview.................................................................
88
12 Particles that precede the base words in a
phrase......................... 92
13
Determiners.......................................................................................
115
14 Notes on the a and o categories of 'belonging
to'......................... 123
15 Particles that follow the base words in a
phrase.......................... 129
Section C: Further points and other constructions
16 Variations in sentence
construction............................................... 145
17
Negatives...........................................................................................
150
18 Asking
questions..............................................................................
158
Bibliography..............................................................................................
165
Index to main entries for all the
particles.............................................. 167
David Karena-Holmes has been a tutor of Maori grammar at schools and institutions in New Zealand since the 1980s. This is his third book on the subject. He contributes a fortnightly column on te reo in the Nelson Mail., and his poetry and other writings have been widely published. David lives in Whakatu/Nelson.
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