Catalan : an essential grammar

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Contents
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Part I What is Catalan?
	Chapter 1 Catalan-speaking areas
	Chapter 2 Catalan among the other Romance languages
	Chapter 3 Catalan in the twenty-first century
	Chapter 4 Main dialects
	Chapter 5 Pronunciation and spelling
		5.1 Vowels
		5.2 Reading and pronouncing consonants
Part II Words, word groups, and word formation
	Chapter 6 Word classes
		6.1 Nouns
		6.2 Adjectives
		6.3 Articles
		6.4 Personal (stressed) pronouns
		6.5 Possessives and demonstratives
		6.6 Quantifiers
	Chapter 7 Verb phrases
		7.1 Verbs
		7.2 Adverbs
		7.3 Unstressed pronouns
	Chapter 8 Prepositions
		8.1 Unstressed (atonic) prepositions
		8.2 Simple and compound stressed (tonic) prepositions
	Chapter 9 Derivation: Creating words from other words
		9.1 Qualifying affixes
		9.2 Category changing affixes
	Chapter 10 Compounds
		10.1 Verb + noun
		10.2 Noun + noun
		10.3 Noun (or pronoun) + verb
		10.4 Noun + adjective / adjective + noun
Part III Clauses and sentences
	Chapter 11 Word order
		11.1 The basics
		11.2 Word order in specific contexts
	Chapter 12 Relating elements
		12.1 Coordination
		12.2 Subordinate clauses
Part IV Doing things and real language
	Chapter 13 Intention
		13.1 Affirmation
		13.2 Negation
		13.3 Questions
		13.4 Exclamation
		13.5 Giving orders
	Chapter 14 Focusing
		14.1 Passive
		14.2 Impersonal sentences and pronominal passive
		14.3 Cleft sentences
	Chapter 15 Defining
		15.1 The article
		15.2 Copulative sentences: Linking subjects and predicates
	Chapter 16 Comparing
		16.1 Comparing single elements
		16.2 Clauses
	Chapter 17 Treatments
		17.1 Degrees of politeness
		17.2 Grammatical relations of polite pronouns
		17.3 Honorifics
		17.4 Titles before surnames
	Chapter 18 Emphasizers
		18.1 Emphasizing single elements
		18.2 Emphasizing whole phrases
	Chapter 19 Interjections and ideophones
	Chapter 20 Frequent native-speaker mistakes (solecisms)
		20.1 Morphology
		20.2 Verb usage
		20.3 Syntax
Appendix – Verb conjugation
Index