Making Maori Sentences By Lindsay Head

Making Maori Sentences By Lindsay Head

SOFTBACK faded covers, minor tanning, minor shelf/edge wear, no annotations, underlining, or highlighting. 123 pages

Published 1989 by Longman Paul ISBN: 0582858178

This book sets out the basic parts or ‘building blocks’ that make up phrases and sentences in Maori. It was developed by the writer, Lyndsay Head, to serve the needs of second language learners of Maori. It provides simple explanations of aspects of the structure of simple sentences in Maori. It does not claim to be comprehensive. As a book for beginners, it sometimes does not tell the whole story, but that can be useful as a starting point.

You will no doubt also want to access other descriptions of the structures of Maori. Each has its own features. Each uses slightly different technical terms to describe the different types of words, phrases and sentences of Maori. So, to access any one of the published grammars you have to become familiar with the basic set of terminology that is used in that particular grammar. Remember too that sometimes the authors choose to omit aspects of structure to make the explanations more accessible to learners.

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