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Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar Is A Complete Reference Guide To Korean Grammar. It Presents A Thorough Yet Accessible Overview Of The Language, Concentrating On The Real Patterns Of Use In Modern Korean. The Book Moves From The Alphabet And Pronunciation Through Morphology And Word Classes To A Detailed Analysis Of Sentence Structures And Semantic Features Such As Aspect, Tense, Speech Styles And Negation. Avoiding Complex Grammatical Terminology, The Grammar Provides Practical Information Regarding How These Grammatical Patterns Are Used In Real-world Conversation. Through The Provision Of Realistic And Lively Examples, The Book Presents Readers With Korean Grammatical Patterns In Context. 1. Introduction To The Korean Language -- 2. Nouns, Nominal Forms, Pronouns And Numbers -- 3. Particles -- 4. Verbs -- 5. Auxiliary (support) Verbs -- 6. Clausal Connectives -- 7. Modifiers -- 8. Sentence Endings -- 9. Quotations -- 10. Other Word Classes Glossary Of Linguistic Terms -- Related Readings And Bibliography -- Index Of Grammatical Constructions (korean) -- Index Of Translation Equivalents (english). General Index. Jaehoon Yeon And Lucien Brown. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 448-450) And Indexes.