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Danish: An Essential Grammar

✍ Scribed by Robin Allan, Philip Holmes, Tom Lundskær-Nielsen


Publisher
Routledge
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Leaves
225
Series
Essential Grammars
Edition
First Edition
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Danish: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of current Danish as it is used by native speakers. It focuses on those areas of Danish that pose particular problems for the learner but at the same time provides a broad general account of the language. The Grammar is the ideal source of reference for the learner of Danish in the early and middle stages. It is suitable either for independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types. Features include:

* clear, jargon-free explanations * many tables and diagrams for extra clarity * detailed contents list * separate glossary of linguistic and grammatical terms * detailed index with key Danish and English words

✦ Table of Contents


BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 13
SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT......Page 14
1 VOWELS AND THEIR PRONUNCIATION......Page 16
2 VOWEL LENGTH AND SPELLING......Page 19
4 STOPS: p, t, k......Page 20
5 STOPS: b, d, g......Page 21
8 l, n, ng, nk, r, v, w......Page 23
10 PRONUNCIATION OF SOME FREQUENT WORDS......Page 24
11 THE GLOTTAL STOP (‘STØD’)......Page 25
12 INFLECTED FORMS—‘STØD’ VARIATIONS......Page 26
14 STRESSED IN THE CLAUSE......Page 28
15 UNSTRESSED IN THE CLAUSE......Page 29
16 TWO-WORD STRESS......Page 30
18 STRESSED PREFIXES......Page 31
21 UNSTRESSED SUFFIXES......Page 32
23 GENDER RULES......Page 34
25 PREDICTING PLURALS......Page 37
26 PLURALS IN -(E)R (EN GADE—GADER; ET BILLEDE —BILLEDER)......Page 38
27 PLURALS IN -E (EN DAG—DAGE; ET HUS—HUSE)......Page 39
29 PLURALS WITH A VOWEL CHANGE (EN TAND—TÆNDER)......Page 40
31 NOUNS DOUBLING THE FINAL CONSONANT......Page 41
33 COUNT AND NON-COUNT NOUNS......Page 42
36 DIFFERENCES IN NUMBER......Page 43
37 GENITIVES......Page 44
38 ARTICLES—FORM......Page 45
40 ARTICLE USE—END ARTICLE IN DANISH, NO ARTICLE IN ENGLISH......Page 47
42 ARTICLE USE—NO ARTICLE IN DANISH, INDEFINITE ARTICLE IN ENGLISH......Page 48
43 ARTICLE USE—END ARTICLE IN DANISH, POSSESSIVE PRONOUN IN ENGLISH......Page 49
3 ADJECTIVES......Page 50
46 INDEFINITE FORM—NEUTER SAME AS COMMON GENDER......Page 51
48 INDEFINITE FORM—SPECIAL CASES......Page 52
50 INDECLINABLE ADJECTIVES......Page 53
51 INDEFINITE CONSTRUCTIONS......Page 54
52 AGREEMENT AND LACK OF AGREEMENT......Page 55
53 DEFINITE CONSTRUCTIONS......Page 56
54 ADJECTIVAL NOUNS......Page 57
56 COMPARISON—INTRODUCTION......Page 59
57 COMPARISON WITH -ERE, -EST......Page 60
60 COMPARISON WITH MERE, MEST......Page 61
61 SIMILARITY, DISSIMILARITY AND REINFORCEMENT......Page 62
62 INFLEXION OF THE SUPERLATIVE......Page 63
63 THE ABSOLUTE COMPARATIVE AND ABSOLUTE SUPERLATIVE......Page 64
4 NUMERALS......Page 66
5 PRONOUNS......Page 72
79 VERB FORMS IN OUTLINE......Page 90
80 FIRST CONJUGATION......Page 91
81 SECOND CONJUGATION......Page 92
83 FOURTH CONJUGATION—INTRODUCTION......Page 93
86 FOURTH CONJUGATION: STEM VOWEL IN -i-......Page 94
87 FOURTH CONJUGATION: STEM VOWEL IN -y-......Page 96
88 FOURTH CONJUGATION: STEM VOWEL IN -æ-......Page 97
89 FOURTH CONJUGATION: STEM VOWEL IN -å-......Page 98
91 INFINITIVE......Page 99
92 PAST PARTICIPLE......Page 101
93 PRESENT PARTICIPLE......Page 103
94 PRESENT TENSE......Page 105
96 PERFECT TENSE......Page 106
97 PAST PERFECT TENSE......Page 107
98 FUTURE TENSE......Page 108
100 MOOD AND MODAL VERBS......Page 109
102 SUBJUNCTIVE......Page 112
103 TRANSITIVE, INTRANSITIVE, COPULA AND REFLEXIVE VERBS......Page 113
104 -s FORMS, DEPONENT AND RECIPROCAL VERBS......Page 114
105 THE PASSIVE......Page 115
106 COMPOUND VERBS......Page 119
7 ADVERBS......Page 122
8 PREPOSITIONS......Page 128
9 INTERJECTIONS......Page 154
10 CONJUNCTIONS......Page 158
11 WORD ORDER AND CLAUSE STRUCTURE......Page 166
12 WORD FORMATION......Page 188
13 ORTHOGRAPHY......Page 200
14 PUNCTUATION......Page 204
LINGUISTIC TERMS......Page 210
DANISH, LATIN AND ENGLISH LINGUISTIC TERMS......Page 214
SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 218
INDEX......Page 220

✦ Subjects


Языки и языкознание;Датский язык;


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