CONTEMPORARY CAMBODIAN GRAMMATICAL SKETCH Department of the Army, United States of America. By MADELINE E. EHRMAN with the assistance of KEM SOS FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE WASHINGTON, D.C. 1972 DEPARTMENT OF STATEFOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE BASIC COURSE SERIES Edited by AUGUSTUS A. KOSKI DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 8631 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office ‘Washington, D.C. 20402 ~ Price $1.25 “PREFACE This is the first of seven interrelated volumes comprising Contemporary Cambodian. The other six will be Introductory Lessons, four topic-oriented textbooks, and a com- prehensive Cambodian-English English-Cambodian glossary. It is appropriate that this volume bearing the subtitle Grammatical Sketch should be the first module to appear since all the others are to be cross-referenced to it Contemporary Cambodian, of which the Grammatical Sketch is a central part, is not projected as a series. The topic-oriented modules are to be co-equal elements in an array of materials from which the course director can choose according to the interests of his students. Earl W, Stevick, in Adopting ond Writing Language Lessons (Superintendent of Docu- ments, Washington, D.C. 1971), says, “The modular principle suggests that the several components be designed so that they may be rearranged to suit the convictions of var ious hinds of user, and so that the individual components may be replaced with mini~ mum disturbance to the rest.” He cites earlier examples of the modular approach in the work of language textbook writers at the Foreign Service Institute and elsewhere. In the plan for Contemporary Cambodian, Miss Ehrman adopts the modular principle and applies it at the intermediate level. The Grammatical Sketch is essentially a companion-piece to the other volumes. How- ever, language scholars may also find it useful in its own right as a brief description of the Cambodian language. The seven modules of Contemporary Cambodian, projected, in preparation, or com- pleted, have been made possible by support from the Defense Language Institute and by the cooperation and encouragement of Dr. Roy F. Fallis, Jr., Chief of the DLI Sys- tems Development Agency, and Colonel Roy M. Kessler, Director of the Defense Lan- guage Institute. James R. Frith, Dean School of Language Studies Foreign Service Institute iat