Understanding Indonesian Grammar is a reference and workbook designed primarily for intermediate and advanced students in senior years of high school and at university. It provides a clear, non-technical description of the important structures in the language, together with practical exercises. It can be used with any Indonesian language course...* Units are largely self-contained, enabling teachers to select topics in any order, depending on the structure of their course and the needs of their students...* The various aspects of each topic are discussed one at a time and tested in exercises so that the learner is guided step by step to an in-depth understanding of the topic...* Contains descriptions of many frequently occurring affixes and structures which are not dealt with in existing course materials...* Clear explanations and answers to all exercises enable learners to use the book without a teacher...* Notes throughout the book provide additional information on unusual or irregular features of grammar...* All grammatical terms used are defined in an extensive glossary...The comprehensiveness and flexibility of Understanding Indonesian Grammar make it an indispensable resource for students and teachers of Indonesian. ..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).
By:
James Neil Sneddon Imprint: Allen & Unwin Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 420g ISBN:9781864487763 ISBN 10: 1864487763 Pages: 256 Publication Date:01 January 2000 Recommended Age: From Audience:
General/trade
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Young adult
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Children/juvenile
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ELT Advanced
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Preschool (0-5)
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS viiiINTRODUCTION ixGLOSSARY xii1 Prefixes 12 Noun affixes 53 Transitive and intransitive verbs 134 Active and passive 195 Intransitive verbs 266 Verbal suffixes -kan and -i 27 Verbs with prefix per- 478 Ter- verbs 519 Ke-...-an verbs 5810 Ber-...-kan verbs 6111 Ber-...-an verbs 6312 Base-meN- verbs 6613 Noun phrases 6814 Adjective phrases 7315 Predicate phrases 7716 Negatives 8017 Baru 8518 Prepositions 8719 Ada 9120 Functions of -nya 9421 Numbers 9722 Arithmetic 10323 Reflexives 10524 Clause word order 10825 Relative clauses 11326 Topic-comment clauses 12427 Nominalised relative clauses 12828 Adalah 13229 Nominalised
