Understanding Indonesian Grammar: A Student's Reference and Workbook

ISBN-13: 9780367720025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 254 str.

James Neil Sneddon

Opis

The first combined reference and workbook which explains the important structures in the Indonesian language, together with extensive practical exercises.

Spis treści

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viii

INTRODUCTION ix

GLOSSARY xii

1 Prefixes 1

2 Noun affixes 5

3 Transitive and intransitive verbs 13

4 Active and passive 19

5 Intransitive verbs 26

6 Verbal suffixes -kan and -i 2

7 Verbs with prefix per- 47

8 Ter- verbs 51

9 Ke-...-an verbs 58

10 Ber-...-kan verbs 61

11 Ber-...-an verbs 63

12 Base-meN- verbs 66

13 Noun phrases 68

14 Adjective phrases 73

15 Predicate phrases 77

16 Negatives 80

17 Baru 85

18 Prepositions 87

19 Ada 91

20 Functions of -nya 94

21 Numbers 97

22 Arithmetic 103

23 Reflexives 105

24 Clause word order 108

25 Relative clauses 113

26 Topic-comment clauses 124

O autorze

James Neil Sneddon PhD is an associate professor in the School of Languages at Griffith University, with long experience teaching Indonesian language and linguistics. He is the author of Indonesian Reference Grammar (1996).