Contents
Foreword by William Norman and Lyle Campbell
Introduction
List of Abbreviations and Symbols
Lesson 1: The K’ichee’ Alphabet
Lesson 2: The Nonverbal Sentence
Lesson 3: Pluralization of Nonverbal Sentences
Lesson 4: Personal Pronouns and the Nonverbal Sentence
Lesson 5: Adjectives Modifying Nouns
Lesson 6: Converting Affirmative Sentences into Questions
Lesson 7: Possessive Pronouns
Lesson 8: Possessive Pronouns (Continued)
Lesson 9: Simple Intransitive Verbs in Incomplete Aspect
Lesson 10: Simple Intransitive Verbs in Completed Aspect; Declension of the Prepositions -umaal and -uuk’
Lesson 11: Simple Intransitive Verbs Whose Roots Begin with Vowels
Lesson 12: Imperative Mood for Simple Intransitive Verbs
Lesson 13: Negatives
Lesson 14: The Particle wi (u, wu) with Direction and Location Words
Lesson 15: Derived Transitive Verbs in Incomplete Aspect and Active Voice with Roots Beginning with Consonants
Lesson 16: Derived Transitive Verbs in Completed Aspect and Active Voice with Roots Beginning with Consonants
Lesson 17: Derived Transitive Verbs in Active Voice Whose Roots Begin with a Vowel
Lesson 18: Imperatives of Derived Transitive Verbs in Active Voice and the Reflexives
Lesson 19: Derived Transitive Verbs in the Simple Passive Voice
Lesson 20: Derived Transitive Verbs in Completed Passive Voice
Lesson 21: Derived Transitive Verbs in the Absolutive Antipassive Voice
Lesson 22: Derived Transitive Verbs in the Agent-Focus Antipassive Voice
Lesson 23: Special Subclasses of Derived Transitive Verbs and the Use of Independent Personal Pronouns for Emphasis
Lesson 24: The Demonstrative Articles and Relative Pronouns: we, le, ri
Lesson 25: The Demonstrative Pronouns: wa’, la’, ri’
Lesson 26: Radical Transitive Verbs in the Active Voice in Incomplete and Completed Aspects and Intensification of Adjectives with -alaj
Lesson 27: The Imperatives of Radical Transitive Verbs in Active Voice and Use of the Progressive Aspect Marker katajinik
Lesson 28: Radical Transitive Verbs in Simple Passive Voice
Lesson 29: Radical Transitive Verbs in the Completed Passive and Absolutive Antipassive Voices
Lesson 30: Radical Transitive Verbs in Agent-Focus Antipassive Voice and Use of b’anik with Spanish Verbs
Lesson 31: The Negative Imperative and Other Negative Forms
Lesson 32: Perfect Aspect of Radical and Derived Transitive Verbs in Active and Simple Passive Voices and the Special Case of eta’maxik
Lesson 33: Perfect Aspect of Simple Intransitive Verbs and Radical and Derived Transitive Verbs in Completed Passive, Absolutive Antipassive, and Agent-Focus Antipassive Voices
Lesson 34: Positional Intransitive Verbs in Incomplete, Completed, Perfect, and Positional Aspects and in the Imperative Mood
Lesson 35: Nominalized Forms of Simple and Positional Intransitive Verbs and of Radical and Derived Transitive Verbs in Simple Passive and Absolute Antipassive Voices
Lesson 36: Formation of Person Agents with Simple Intransitive Verbs and with Radical and Derived Transitive Verbs in the Absolutive Antipassive Voices and the Use of Familiar Prefixes a- and al- with Proper Names
Lesson 37: Formation of Nouns from Adjectives and Unpossessed Forms of Obligatorily Possessed Nouns
Lesson 38: Directional and Locational Adverbs loq, b’iik, and kanoq and Conjugation of Irregular Derived Transitive Verb ajawaxik and Use of Auxiliary Verbs kowinem and ajawaxik
K’ichee’ to English Vocabulary
Story: The Creation of the Animals a Long Time Ago