Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students / Edition 3

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Macedonian, the official language of the Republic of Macedonia, is spoken by two and a half million people in the Balkans, North America, Australia, and other émigré communities around the world. Christina E. Kramer's award-winning textbook provides a basic introduction to the language. Students will learn to speak, read, write, and understand Macedonian while discussing family, work, recreation, music, food, health, housing, travel, and other topics.
Intended to cover one year of intensive study, this third edition updates the vocabulary, adds material to help students appreciate the underlying structure of the language, and offers a wide variety of new, proficiency-based readings and exercises to boost knowledge of Macedonian history, culture, literature, folklore, and traditions.

Winner, Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299247645

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Publication Date: 09-15-2011

Pages: 552

Product Dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Christina E. Kramer is professor of Slavic and Balkan linguistics at the University of Toronto. Liljana Mitkovska is associate professor of English grammar and English-Macedonian contrastive analysis at the FON University, Macedonia.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Macedonian Pronunciation and the Macedonian Alphabet

1.1: The Macedonian alphabet

1.2: Notes on the alphabet and pronunciation

1.3: Stress

1.4: Cognates

1.5: Alphabetical order

1.6: Writing Macedonian

2: Introductions; Occupations

2.1: Subject pronouns

2.2: The present tense of verbs, introduction

2.3: The present tense of the verb 'to be'

2.4: Gender of nouns

2.5: Interrogatives

2.6: Conjunctions

3: Actions and Attributes

3.1: Plural of masculine and feminine nouns

3.2: Adjectives

3.3: Plural of adjectives

3.4: Present tense of verbs

3.5: Negation of verbs

3.6: нма/нема

3.7: Numbers 1-20

4: Daily Routines

4.1: Adverbs, introduction

4.2: Plural of neuter nouns

4.3: Quantitative plural

4.4: Demonstrative adjectives

4.5: Definite articles

4.6: Definite direct objects and clitics

4.7: Possession

4.8: Conjunctions

5: Food

5.1: Definiteness of adjective plus noun phrases

5.2: Direct object pronouns, continued

5.3: Prepositions with personal pronouns

5.4: Introduction to Да constructions

5.5: The invariant verb може in да constructions seeking permission

5.6: во vs. на

5.7: Forms of 'whose'

5.8: Conjunctions и . . . и, или . . . или, ни . . . ни

6: Music

6.1: Indirect objects

6.2: Indirect and direct object clitics

6.3: Uses of на

6.4: Verbal aspect

6.5: Future constructions

6.6: Future tense of сум

6.7: Subordination with дека

6.8: Relative clauses, introduction

7: Cities, Giving directions, Skopje, Free time

7.1: Comparatives and superlatives

7.2: Possessive pronominal adjectives

7.3: Embedded questions and indirect questions

7.4: Imperatives

7.5: Auxiliary verb треба

7.6: Numbers from 0-100

7.7: Telling time, introduction

8.: Education, invitations

8.1: Aorist, introduction

8.2: Days of the week

8.3: Telling time, continued

8.4: Review of subordinate clauses

8.5: Relative clauses, continued

8.6: Intransitive verbs with се

9: Vacations, birthdays, and other celebrations

9.1: Aorist, continued

9.2: Introduction to verbal nouns

9.3: Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions

9.4: Numbers designating male human beings and mixed gender groups

9.5: Months of the year

9.6: Ordinal numbers

9.7: Dates

9.8: Verb of liking

9.9: Order of clitics, review

9.10: Diminutives, introduction

9.11: Vocative, introduction

10: Weather

10.1: Imperfect, introduction

10.2: Proximate and distance forms of the definite article

10.3: Interrogatives, pronominal adjectives, and adverbs of quantity and quality

10.4: Impersonal constructions, introduction

10.5: Imperatives continued: да and нека constructions

11: Appearance, character

11.1: Colors, clothing, relatives

11.2: Expectative conditionals

11.3: Perfective imperfect and future-in-the-past

11.4: Indirect speech, introduction

11.5: Verbal nouns, continued

11.6: Verbal adverbs

11.7: Word Formation

12.: Health

12.1: Verbal 1-forms and formation of the 1-past

12.2: Approximate numbers

12.3: The emphatic verb нејќе

12.4: Compound conjunctions: без да, за да, пред да

12.5: The conjunction штом

12.6: Verbal prefix по- and the verbs of ‘lying,’ ‘sitting,’ ‘standing’

12.7: Aorist, continued

12.8: Reflexive verbs, continued

13: Housing

13.1: Comparisons continued and the prefix пре-

13.2: Hypothetical constructions with би

13.3: Overview of conditionals

13.4: Admirative and dubitative: other uss of the verbal 1-forms

13.5: Indirect speech, continued

13.6: Suppositional or reported forms of perfective imperfect constructions

13.7: The use of треба with nominal subject

13.8: Optatives

14: Geography of Macedonia, Travel

14.1: Verbal adjectives

14.2: Word order

14.3: Passive constructions with се

14.4: Conjunctions дури (да, не), додека (да, не)

15: Wedding customs; Sports; Arts

15.1: Има perfects, introduction

15.2: Dependent form of masculine personal names

15.3: Aspect distinctions and imperfective derivation

15.4: Introduction to verbal prefixes

15.5: Prefixes for 'some', 'no-'; 'every-', e.g. 'someone, no one, everyone'

15.6: Indefinite pronouns meaning 'any-', e.g. 'anyone, anywhere'

15.7: The conjunction како да, 'as if'

16: Cultural sites in Macedonia

16.1: Pluperfects

16.2: Constructions with имал plus verbal adjective

16.3: Diminutives, continued

16.4: Review of prepositions

16.5: Collective plurals

16.6: Suffixes in word formation, cont.

Glossary of Basic Grammatical Terminology

Appendix—Grammatical Summaries

Introduction to the Glossary

Macedonian-English Glossary

English-Macedonian Glossary

Index

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