A Complete Grammar of Esperanto

Esperanto is a fully fledged language today with thousands of speakers all over the world...!

eBook DESCRIPTION

Its aim was to create a neutral and easy-to-learn in a few minutes or hours language, useful for international communication, but not a substitute for other national languages. Although no country recognizes Esperanto as its official language , it is spoken by an international community whose size, according to various sources, is estimated at between one hundred thousand and two million speakers (depending on the level of proficiency in the language); for about a thousand of them, Esperanto is the first language. This book is for the advanced speaker as it defines usage and style along with graded exercises for reading and translation.together with full vocabularies.

eBook TAGS

Esperanto, Language, Linguist, world languages, international communication, analytical languages, Phonology, grammar, lexis, semantics, International auxiliary language

eBook EXCERPT or SYNOPSIS

This volume has been prepared to meet a twofold need. An adequate presentation of the International Language has become an imperative necessity. Such presentation, including full and accurate grammatical explanations, suitably graded reading lessons, and similarly graded material for translation from English, has not heretofore been accessible within the compass of a single volume, or in fact within the compass of any two or three volumes.
The combination of grammar and reader here offered is therefore unique. It is to furnish not merely an introduction to Esperanto, or a superficial acquaintance with it, but a genuine understanding of the language and mastery of its use without recourse to additional textbooks, readers, etc. In other words, this one volume affords as complete a knowledge of Esperanto as several years' study of a grammar and various readers will accomplish for any national language. Inflection, word-formation and syntax are presented clearly and concisely, yet with a degree of completeness and in a systematic order that constitute a new feature. Other points worthy of note are the following:
The reasons for syntactical usages are given, instead of mere statements that such usages exist. For example, clauses of purpose and of result are really explained, instead of being dismissed with the unsatisfactory remark that "the imperative follows por ke," or the "use of tiel ... ke and tia ... ke must be distinguished from that of tiel ... kiel and tia ... kia," etc., with but little intimation of when and why por ke, tiel ... ke and tia ... ke are likely to occur.