Advanced Kichwa

 

During the first week you will learn to use:

Compound verbs with shayana, sirina, llutarina, etc.

 

In week 2. you will learn to use the conditional tense

Conditional present tense

Conditional past tense 

Conditional present tense sentences

Conditional past tense sentences

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In week 3

Age sets

Colors

Computer terms

Overlapping vocabulary for human, plant, and animal body parts 

Humor   (Swanson, Asichina, the Language of Kichwa Humor)

Kinship Terms

Ayllumanda Rimana: Speaking of Relatives

Phrases for recording and interviewing

Resources

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IRIS Testing instrument

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Present Tense

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Attributive -k

Attributive -k

Attributive with object marker -kta

Attributive -k + m-ana

Attributive -k  with past tense (habitual action "used to" ___)

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Co and switch reference suffixes -sha/kpi (Quizlet)

 

-sha/-kpi as if/then

-sha/-kpi as if/then with nina (If you say/want...)

-sha/-kpi as if/then with past tense conditional (If you had I would have).

-sha/-kpi in temporally sequenced actions

-sha simultaneous actions- (adverbial)

-sha/-kpi because (when one verb is the cause of the other)

-sha/-kpi combined with future tense verbs

-sha/-kpi combined with past tense verbs

-sha in polite imperative construction (dame haciendo)

-sha as exaggeration -nsha (pastaza -shá)

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Weather phrases with -sha and pagarina

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Conjunctions

although  -llata

More on although, but, change of intention

Conditional

Conditional present tense

Conditional past tense 

Conditional present tense sentences

Conditional past tense sentences

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Complex subjects with -shka

Complex predicates with -ska-ra

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Imperatives

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Polite imperative with -sha kuway

Exercise with negative imperative in 2nd person singular

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Indirect speech with nina

iyaiwa "with the idea of

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Nominalized -y verb + pasana for perfective aspect

nominalized verb -y + tukuna for passive

nominalized verb -y + apina and kachan

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-nay as desire

-naypi if/the with imperative

-llata

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Possessive + object marker in the sense of  for_______

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Wondering or rhetorical questions with -y and -cha

-s even though/ no matter how much

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Time and Temporal Movement

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Vocabulary of time and temporal movement

Arranging the length of a stay/ practice for talking about duration

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Age sets

Colors

Computer terms

Overlapping vocabulary for human, plant, and animal body parts 

Humor   (Swanson, Asichina, the Language of Kichwa Humor)

Kinship Terms

Ayllumanda Rimana: Speaking of Relatives

Phrases for recording and interviewing

 

Buying, Selling, and Economy

 

Comparison

kwinta/shina  "like"

yallina

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Janis B. Nuckolls and Swanson, Tod D. (2014). "Earthy Concreteness and Anti- Hypotheticalism in Amazonian Quichua Discourse," Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America: Vol. 12: Iss. 1, Article 4, 48-60

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Learning Resources 

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