Catalan : an essential grammar / Nicolau Dols and Richard Mansell.
"Catalan: An Essential Grammar is a concise and convenient guide to the basic grammatical structure of Catalan. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, this engaging Grammar uses clear explanations and sets out the complexities of Catalan in short, readable sections clari...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Part I What is Catalan?; Chapter 1 Catalan-speaking areas; Chapter 2 Catalan among the other Romance languages; Chapter 3 Catalan in the twenty-first century; Chapter 4 Main dialects; Chapter 5 Pronunciation and spelling; 5.1 Vowels; 5.2 Reading and pronouncing consonants; Part II Words, word groups, and word formation; Chapter 6 Word classes; 6.1 Nouns; 6.2 Adjectives; 6.3 Articles; 6.4 Personal (stressed) pronouns; 6.5 Possessives and demonstratives; 6.6 Quantifiers; Chapter 7 Verb phrases; 7.1 Verbs; 7.2 Adverbs; 7.3 Unstressed pronouns.
- Chapter 8 Prepositions8.1 Unstressed (atonic) prepositions; 8.2 Simple and compound stressed (tonic) prepositions; Chapter 9 Derivation: Creating words from other words; 9.1 Qualifying affixes; 9.2 Category changing affixes; Chapter 10 Compounds; 10.1 Verb + noun; 10.2 Noun + noun; 10.3 Noun (or pronoun) + verb; 10.4 Noun + adjective / adjective + noun; Part III Clauses and sentences; Chapter 11 Word order; 11.1 The basics; 11.2 Word order in specific contexts; Chapter 12 Relating elements; 12.1 Coordination; 12.2 Subordinate clauses; Part IV Doing things and real language.
- Chapter 13 Intention13.1 Affirmation; 13.2 Negation; 13.3 Questions; 13.4 Exclamation; 13.5 Giving orders; Chapter 14 Focusing; 14.1 Passive; 14.2 Impersonal sentences and pronominal passive; 14.3 Cleft sentences; Chapter 15 Defining; 15.1 The article; 15.2 Copulative sentences: Linking subjects and predicates; Chapter 16 Comparing; 16.1 Comparing single elements; 16.2 Clauses; Chapter 17 Treatments; 17.1 Degrees of politeness; 17.2 Grammatical relations of polite pronouns; 17.3 Honorifics; 17.4 Titles before surnames; Chapter 18 Emphasizers; 18.1 Emphasizing single elements.
- 18.2 Emphasizing whole phrasesChapter 19 Interjections and ideophones; Chapter 20 Frequent native-speaker mistakes (solecisms); 20.1 Morphology; 20.2 Verb usage; 20.3 Syntax; Appendix
- Verb conjugation; Index.