Basic K'ichee' Grammar: 38 Lessons, Revised EditionThe K’ichee’an languages—K’ichee’, Kaqchikel, Tz˘utujil, Sakapulteko, Achi, and Sipakapense—occupy a prominent place among the indigenous languages of the Americas because of both their historical significance and the number of speakers (more than one million total). Basic K'ichee' Grammar is an extensive and accurate survey of the principal grammatical structures of K’ichee’. Written in a clear, nontechnical style to facilitate the learning of the language, it is the only K’ichee’ grammar available in English. A pedagogical rather than a reference grammar, the book is a thorough presentation of the basics of the K’ichee’ Maya language organized around graded grammatical lessons accompanied by drills and exercises. Author James L. Mondloch spent ten years in K’ichee’-speaking communities and provides a complete analysis of the K’ichee’ verb system based on the everyday speech of the people and using a wealth of examples and detailed commentaries on actual usage. A guide for learning the K’ichee’ language, Basic K'ichee' Grammar is a valuable resource for anyone seeking a speaking and reading knowledge of modern K’ichee’, including linguists, anthropologists, and art historians, as well as nonacademics working in K’ichee’ communities, such as physicians, dentists, community development workers, and educators. |
Contents
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Possessive Pronouns | 30 |
Possessive Pronouns Continued | 33 |
Derived Transitive Verbs in the AgentFocus Antipassive Voice | 98 |
Special Subclasses of Derived Transitive Verbs and the Use of Independent Personal Pronouns for Emphasis | 107 |
The Demonstrative Articles and Relative Pronouns we le ri | 113 |
The Demonstrative Pronouns wa la ri | 118 |
Radical Transitive Verbs in the Active Voice in Incomplete and Completed Aspects and Intensification of Adjectives with alaj | 123 |
The Imperatives of Radical Transitive Verbs in Active Voice and Use of the Progressive Aspect Marker katajinik | 130 |
Radical Transitive Verbs in Simple Passive Voice | 137 |
Radical Transitive Verbs in the Completed Passive and Absolutive Antipassive Voices | 143 |
Simple Intransitive Verbs in Incomplete Aspect | 36 |
Simple Intransitive Verbs in Completed Aspect Declension of the Prepositions umaal and uuk | 42 |
Simple Intransitive Verbs Whose Roots Begin with Vowels | 46 |
Imperative Mood for Simple Intransitive Verbs | 49 |
Negatives | 53 |
The Particle wi u wu with Direction and Location Words | 57 |
Derived Transitive Verbs in Incomplete Aspect and Active Voice with Roots Beginning with Consonants | 60 |
Derived Transitive Verbs in Completed Aspect and Active Voice with Roots Beginning with Consonants | 68 |
Derived Transitive Verbs in Active Voice Whose Roots Begin with a Vowel | 71 |
Imperatives of Derived Transitive Verbs in Active Voice and the Reflexives | 75 |
Derived Transitive Verbs in the Simple Passive Voice | 80 |
Derived Transitive Verbs in Completed Passive Voice | 86 |
Derived Transitive Verbs in the Absolutive Antipassive Voice | 91 |
Radical Transitive Verbs in AgentFocus Antipassive Voice and Use of banik with Spanish Verbs | 150 |
The Negative Imperative and Other Negative Forms | 156 |
Perfect Aspect of Radical and Derived Transitive Verbs in Active and Simple Passive Voices and the Special Case of etamaxik | 162 |
Perfect Aspect of Simple Intransitive Verbs and Radical and Derived Transitive Verbs in Completed Passive Absolutive Antipassive and AgentFocus ... | 170 |
Positional Intransitive Verbs in Incomplete Completed Perfect and Positional Aspects and in the Imperative Mood | 179 |
Nominalized Forms of Simple and Positional Intransitive Verbs and of Radical and Derived Transitive Verbs in Simple Passive and Absolute Antipass... | 188 |
Formation of Person Agents with Simple Intransitive Verbs and with Radical and Derived Transitive Verbs in the Absolutive Antipassive Voices and t... | 197 |
Formation of Nouns from Adjectives and Unpossessed Forms of Obligatorily Possessed Nouns | 204 |
Directional and Locational Adverbs loq biik and kanoq and Conjugation of Irregular Derived Transitive Verb ajawaxik and Use of Auxiliary Verbs k... | 210 |
Kichee to English Vocabulary | 221 |
The Creation of the Animals a Long Time Ago | 250 |
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Common terms and phrases
a’laq a’re a’ree absolutive antipassive voice achi achijaab active voice adjective agent-focus antipassive voice alaj alaq aree aretaq become seen CABUL ARY chaak chee chwe'q chwe’q chwee Completed Aspect Completed Passive voice consonants cured derived Transitive verbs ENGLISH TO K’ICHEE EXPRESSIONS glottal stop Imperative Mood iwir Jachin jasa K'ICHEE K’ax kab’ee kamik kanoq kape katajin kumal laal look for tzukuu Majaa marimba MODEL SENTENCES N-SPAN niim nouns paja pajuyub patinamit Perfect aspect plural Positional aspect Positional intransitive verb possessive pronouns PREP q’ojoma radical Transitive verbs root vowel roots begin rumal sick simple intransitive verbs simple Passive voice subclass taat termination third person singular tortillas ulew utterance-final verb phrase verb root verbs in active verbs in Completed verbs whose roots wanted waraal waſ winaq wiped yawaab yesterday