Javanese Grammar for Students

A Graded Introduction (Third Edition)

Stuart Robson

• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781922235381
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This is a third, revised edition of Stuart Robson's highly successful guide to the grammar of the Javanese language, spoken by around eighty million speakers on the island of Java. The book progresses from simple to more complex topics, facilitating a steady increase in language proficiency. Fresh examples have been added, as well as a section entitled 'How do you say it in Javanese?', arranged under 120 headwords and taking the viewpoint of speakers of English wanting an equivalent to an English idiom. There is an introduction and a note on the language levels of Javanese, important for social interaction. This book will be of interest to students of Indonesian wanting deeper knowledge of communication on the island of Java, to researchers considering field­work in Java, to linguists making comparative studies of Indonesian languages, and to outsiders undertaking employment in Java.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Title page
• Copyright and imprint information
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Unit 1 Equative sentences; personal pronouns; demonstrative pronouns; word-order; cultural note on titles
• Unit 2 Demonstrative qualifiers; adjectives; word-order; a function of –é/-né; simple verbs
• Unit 3 Place-words; expressions of place; plurality; tense words; negation; cultural note on directions
• Unit 4 Adverbs of time; dates and numbers; cultural note on the calendar
• Unit 5
• Unit 6 More about adjectives – excessive; ‘suffering from’ with suffix -en; the suffix –an expressing a ‘tendency’; ...
• Unit 7 Verbs formed from nouns; the suffix –an meaning ‘wearing’; suffix –an ‘to be in a certain position...
• Unit 8 Transitive verbs with nasalization and no suffix; the passive, meaning and forms, prefix di-
• Unit 9 Verbs with the suffix –i, forms and meanings 1-7; cultural note on slametan
• Unit 10 Verbs with the suffix –aké, forms and meanings, causative, benefactive and other
• Unit 11 Passive verbs with the prefix ka-, formation and meaning; passive verbs with the infix –in-, ...
• Unit 12 The accidental ‘passive’ with prefix ke-, forms and meanings
• Unit 13 More about numbers - ordinals and fractions; intensifying adjectives by means of vowel variation; ...
• Unit 14 Doubling of verbs, functions
• Unit 15 Imperatives with suffix –a; with prefix di-, mbok, sing; requests in Krama; prohibitions
• Unit 16 The passive imperative, with suffixless verbs, verbs with suffix –i and suffix –aké, formation and meaning
• Unit 17 The propositive ‘let me’; formation and meaning
• Unit 18 Nominalization, making nouns out of verbs and adjectives; the use of olèhé and lé; use of the relative pronoun sing
• Unit 19 The subjunctive, forms and meanings; indefinite expresssions formed by doubling question words
• Unit 20 Nouns derived from verbs; the act of (gerund); the actor; place where; nouns with a suffix –an, various meanings
• Unit 21 Syntactic doubling and its meanings; the affixes pa- and –an based on nouns; the prefix pi-; the suffix –an ...
• Unit 22 The prefix sa-, meaning the whole or all; in accordance with; with expressions of time; with expressions of ...
• Unit 23 The particles ya (iya); kok; ta; rak; wong
• Unit 24 Imitative words with the element mak; with pating expressing plurality and disorder
• Unit 25 The split subject and foregrounding; prepositions and preposition-like words
• Unit 26 Conjunctions, various meanings; the role of intonation in a sentence
• Unit 27 Abbreviated forms; free variation in word-form; colloquial words with grammatical function
• Unit 28 Greetings; expressions for use in various social situations; Krama and Krama Inggil revision
• How do you say it in Javanese?
• References
• Abbreviations
• Back Cover