Kirundi Basic Course

Cover
Title Page
Preface
Table of Contents
A Learner's Synopsis of Kirundi Structure
Introduction
Unit 1 - Exchanging greetings and getting acquainted
	A procedure for use with each new set of basic sentences
	Dialogues
	Footnotes
	Notes
		The use of the terms 'pitch' and 'tone'
		Pitch in yes-no questions
		Anticipated high tone in final position
		The use of subject prefixes
		A note on the immediate tense
		A note on absolute personal pronouns
		A note on the locative prefixes
		A note on the copula /ni/
		A note on the combination /n/ plus /r/
	A procedure for use with substitution drills
	A procedure for use with transformation drills
	Vocabulary Supplement
		Names for members of various ethnic groups
		Places where people work
		Some objects which frequently require specification of ownership
Unit 2 - Looking for work
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Singular and plural forms of personal nouns
		Object prefixes
		Tones of certain nouns borrowed from European languages and Swahili
		Infinitives
		Verb forms that contain the root /-zi/
		Grammatical dimension of 'linkage'
	Exercises
	A procedure for use with practice conversations
	Practice Conversations
Unit 3 - Where do people live and work?
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Alternation of nasal consonants
		Substantive phrases
		Alternate forms of concordial prefixes with various adjective stems
		Locative enclitic /--he/
		Subsecutive prefix
	Vocabulary: Place names
	Exercises
Unit 4 - Getting help in the language
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Use of tone in the Kirundi verb
		Non-tonal features of negative indicative forms
		Tones of immediate indicative verbs, affirmative and negative
		Tonal pattern of certain reduplications
		Concord used when the antecedent is quoted material
	Exercises
		Conversation Practice
Unit 5 - Arranging for help in language study
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Object prefixes
		Adjectives used in noun positions
		Difference between perfective and imperfective verb stems
		Translation equivalents of many English adjectives
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 6 - Comparing notes about language study
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Tones of verbs that contain object prefixes
		Use of different sets of prefixes with the same noun stem
		Comparisons of inequality
		Verbs in Sentences 8 and 11
	Exercises
	Conversations
Unit 7 - Family relationships
	Dialogues
	Vocabulary: Kinship terms
	Notes
		Tones of words used with /na'/ 'and, with'
		Ordinal numerals
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 8 - More about family relationships I
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Pronunciation of /miroongo/ before vowels
		Vowel length in constructions with /na/ plus a numeral
		Possessives used without nouns
		Tone of the copular /'ni/ and /'si/
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 9 - More about family relationships II
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Participial verb forms, immediate, affirmative
	Exercies
	Practice Conversations
Unit 10 - Review
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 11 - Getting street directions
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Imperatives
		Copular forms used in specifying locations
		Negative imperative
	Exercises
	Conversations
Unit 12 - More street directions
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Relative verb forms
		Relative pronouns
	Exercises
Unit 13 - Planning a short trip
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Non-immediate future tense
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 14 - Buying food
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Non-indicative negatives
		Use of relative verb forms in indirect discourse
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 15 - Buying clothing
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Hodiernal tense
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 16 - Buying food at the door
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Tone of words like /irĭgi/
		Hesternal past tense
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 17 - Eating
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Autonomous verb forms
		Infinitive as a substantive
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 18 - Work in the kitchen
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Subjunctive
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 19 - Restaurant and kitchen
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Presentative forms
		Defective verb /-ri/
		Defective verb /-te/ 'to do how?'
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 20 - Review
	Exercisies
	Practice Conversations
Unit 21 - Caring for children
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Particle /nka-'/
		Non-personal possessives
		Demonstrative series with stem /~rya/
		Use of /-riinda/ as the first verb in a phrase
		Conditional tense
		Adhortative forms
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 22 - Climate and weather
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Periphrastic progressive
		Stem extensions
		Applicative extension
		Reciprocal stem extension
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 23 - What is in season?
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Persistive tense
		Inceptive tense
		Possessive phrases used in noun slots
		Two contrasting demonstratives
		The use of Class 8 for mixed antecedents
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 24 - Geography of Burundi
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Verb /-ca/ followed by a participial form
		Verb /-ba/ followed by a participial form
		Word /'ni/ plus /uko/ plus a clause
		Word /kimwé/
		Word /hagӑti/~/hagatí/
	Exercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 25 - A visit to a friend's home
	Dialogues
	Oral Reading Practice
	Notes
		Construction /'ni -ba/
		Sentences with /-ri na.../
		Abbreviation of personal names
	Excercises
	Practice Conversations
Unit 26 - Car trouble
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Special use of the verbal extension /-an-/
		Vocative use of nouns
		Construction in which a question is followed by a verb that includes the subsecutive prefix /-ka-/
		Extensions in the stem /-kírizia/
		Forms that contain two object prefixes
	Exercises
Unit 27 - The government of Burundi
	Dialogues
	Notes
		Method of pluralizing unassimilated French nouns
		Passive stems
		The construction 'every ____ years'
		Use of /na/ which does not correspond to English 'have', 'with' or 'and'
		Two alternate ways of using Class 18
	Exercises
Unit 28 - Miscellaneous topics
	Dialogues
	Notes and Exercises
Unit 29 - Short dialogues
Unit 30 - Short texts, with questions and answers
Glossary
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