Thelma D. Sullivan's Compendium of Nahuatl Grammar PDF
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Page iii Thelma D. Sullivan's Compendium of Nahuatl Grammar translated from the Spanish by Thelma D. Sullivan and Neville Stiles Edited by Wick R. Miller and Karen Dakin University of Utah Press Salt Lake City 1988 Page iii Thelma D. Sullivan's Compendium of Nahuatl Grammar translated from the Spanish by Thelma D. Sullivan and Neville Stiles Edited by Wick R. Miller and Karen Dakin University of Utah Press Salt Lake City 1988 Page iv Originally published as Compendio de la gramática náhuatl, Copyright 1976 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, D.F. Copyright 1988 The University of Utah Press All rights reserved. Published 1988 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Sullivan, Thelma D. [Compendio de la gramática náhuatl. English] Thelma D. Sullivan's compendium of Nahuatl grammar / translated from the Spanish by Thelma D. Sullivan and Neville Stiles ; edited by Wick R. Miller and Karen Dakin. p. cm. Translation of: Compendio de la gramática náhuatl. Bibliography: p. ISBN 0874802822 1. Aztec language—Grammar. I. Stiles, Neville. II. Miller, Wick R. III. Dakin, Karen. IV. Title. V. Title: Compendium of nahuatl grammar. PM4063.S8713 1988 497'.4—dc19 8817082 CIP Cover: Uitzilopochtli. Florentine Codex, Book IV; Paso y Troncoso Page v in memory of Angel María Garibay K. Page vii Contents Preface to the Spanish Edition xvii Acknowledgments for the Spanish Edition xxiii Author's Note for the Spanish Edition xx Preface to the English Edition xxvii Introduction 1 Structure 1 Stylistics 1 Prehispanic Writing 3 Chapter 1, Phonology and Writing System 5 Vowels 5 Consonants 6 Stops 6 The glottal stop 7 Affricates 7 Fricatives 7 The lateral 8 Nasals 8 Semivowels 8 Accent 9 Early Orthographic Variation 9 Vowels 10 Semivowels 10 The /kw/ 11 Glottal stop 11 The /s/ ... 11 The /s/ 11 Morphophonemic Changes 12 Page viii Chapter 2, Nouns 15 The Absolutive Noun 15 The Noun Plural 16 Other phenomena in the plural formation 17 Abstract Nouns 18 The ligature ca with agentive nouns and toponyms 18 Reverential, Pejorative, Diminutive, and Augmentative 19 Reverential 19 Plural of the reverential 20 Pejorativediminutive 21 Plural of the pejorativediminutive 21 Diminutive 22 Augmentative 22 Pejorative 23 Chapter 3, Pronouns 25 The Possessive Pronominal Prefixes 25 Possessed Nouns 25 Plural of the possessed noun 28 Possessed form of abstract, reverential, pejorativediminutive, diminutive, augmentative, and pejorative nouns 28 Genitive phrases: possessor noun with third person possessed noun 29 The Possessive Prefixes With Adverbs 29 Verb Prefixes: Subject And Object 30 Form of the third person object prefixes 32 Expressed third person objects 32 Indefinite third person objects: te and tla 33 Indirect objects 33 Verb Prefixes: The Reflexive 34 Reflexive prefixes in combination with object prefixes 35 Subject Prefixes Joined with Nouns and Adjectives 35 Independent Pronouns 36 Personal Pronouns 36 Indefinite pronouns 37 Negative indefinite pronouns 37 Interrogative pronouns 38 Page ix Relative pronouns 38 Demonstrative pronouns 38 Chapter 4, Vocative 41 Masculine Vocative 41 Feminine Vocative 42 General Vocative 42 Chapter 5, Indicative Mood of the Verb 45 General Remarks Concerning Verbs and Their Conjugation 45 The citation form: third person singular present indicative 45 Person markers: the pronominal prefixes 45 The particle on 46 Verb endings 47 Present Tense 47 Meaning and use of the present tense 48 Past Imperfect Tense 49 Meaning and use of the past imperfect tense 49 Past Perfect Tense 50 Alternate past perfect formations 53 Perfect marker o 54 Past perfect suffix c 54 Meaning and use of the past perfect tense 55 Pluperfect Tense 55 Meaning and use of the pluperfect tense 56 Future Tense 57 Meaning and use of the future tense 57 Desire expressed by nequi "want" 59 Chapter 6, Other Moods of the Verb 61 The Imperative 61 Use of the imperative 62 Requests or entreaties 63 Imperative with the future tense 64 Vetative of caution 64 Page x Optative and Subjunctive 65 Past imperfective and past perfective of the optative and subjunctive 67 Another form of the optative and subjunctive past perfect 68 Future optative and subjunctive 69 Future conditional subjunctive 70 The subjunctive in conditional sentences 71 Chapter 7, The Passive and the Impersonal 73 The Passive Voice 73 Consonant changes 74 Alternate forms of the passive 74 The reflexive pronoun of the passive: ne 75 The passive use of the reflexive 75 The passive of the verb which has two objects 75 Other tenses and moods of the passive 72 Use of the passive 77 The Impersonal 78 The impersonal of transitive verbs 78 The impersonal of intransitive verbs 79 Intransitive verbs which add ohua 79 The impersonal of inchoative intransitive verbs 80 Other tenses and moods of the impersonal 80 Chapter 8, Verbal Directional Suffixes 83 Movement Away: To Go to 83 The indicative mood: present and future tiuh (sg.), tihui' (pl.) 83 The indicative mood: past to (sg.), to' (p.) 83 Other moods of the verb: ti (sg.), ti', tin (pl.) 84 Movement Toward: To Come to 85 The indicative mood: present and past co (sg.), co' (pl.) 85 The indicative mood: future quiuh (sg.), quihui' (pl.) 85 Other moods of the verb: qui (sg.), qui' (pl.) 86 Page xi Chapter 9, Verbal Nouns 87 Action Nouns 87 Possessed form of the verbal action noun 88 Agentive Nouns 89 Alternate formations 90 Possessed form of agentive nouns 91 Possessive Nouns 92 The plural of the possessive noun 94 The possessed form of the possessive noun 94 The Ligature Ca In Derivations Of Verbal Nouns 95 Abstract nouns 95 Reverential 95 Pejorativediminutive 96 Diminutive and augmentative 96 Patient Nouns 96 Impersonalpassive patient nouns 97 Past perfect patient nouns 97 Instrumental Nouns 99 Locative Nouns 100 Locative noun formed with the suffix yan 100 Locative noun formed with the suffix can 101 Verbal Nouns Which Appear Only In The Possessed Form 102 Suffix ca: action received 102 Suffix ca: action completed 103 Suffix ya: instrumental 104 Suffix yan: place and time 105 Chapter 10, Postpositions 107 Postpositions with possessive pronominal prefixes 107 Postpositions with nouns 107 The ligature ti 108 Postposition with noun and copy pronoun 108 Six classes of postpositions 109 Postpositions That Combine With Either Nouns Or Pronominal Prefixes 110 Postposition pan: upon, above; in the time of; with, by means of; for, on behalf of; concerning 110 Page xii Postposition icpac: on, above, on the top of, at the head of 112 Postposition tlan: in, among, with, together with, under; next to, close 113 to Postposition tech: on, in, next to, close to; concerning; by, at 114 Postposition ca: with, with help from, through, by means of, by, along, 115 of Postposition nahuac: next to, beside, near to; with, together with 117 Postposition tzalan: between, among, in the middle of 118 Postposition nepantla': in the middle of, among, between 118 Postpositions that Combine Only with Nouns 119 Postposition c, co: in, within, inside, on, through; in the time of 119 Postposition nalco: beyond, on the other side of 121 Postposition chi: down, down toward 121 Postposition can: where, place of, in the time of 122 Postposition tla': where something abounds, place where something is abundant, time when something abounds 123 Postposition teuh :like, in the manner of, similar to 124 Postpositions that Combine Only with Pronominal Prefixes 124 Postposition pal: through, by, by means of, with the help of 125 Postposition pampa: for, because of 125 Postposition tloc: with, beside, together with, in the company of 126 Postposition huan: with, together with, in the company of, accompanied by 127 Postposition huic: toward, against 128 Postposition icampa: behind 128 Postpositions Derived from Nouns 129 Postpositions ixco, ixtlan, ixpan, (from ixtli, face, 129 Postpositions i'tic, i'tec: inside, within (from i'titl, i'tetl belly) 131 Postposition tepotzco: behind, in the absence of (from tepotztli back 131 Some other postpositions derived from nouns 132 Double and Triple Postpositions 134 Double postpositions 134
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