Clamor Schürmann’s Barngarla grammar: A commentary on the first section of A vocabulary of the Parnkalla languageThe work of the German missionaries on South Australian languages in the first half of the nineteenth century has few contemporary parallels for thoroughness and clarity. This commentary on the grammatical introduction to Pastor Clamor Schürmann’s Vocabulary of the Parnkalla language of 1844 reconstructs a significant amount of Barngarla morphology, phonology and syntax. |
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Common terms and phrases
Adelaide adjective Adnyamathanha Adnyamathanha and Kuyani adverb affixes Amery & Simpson apico-alveolar appears attached Australian languages Barngarla verbs Barngarla word benefactive bidni consonant Crawford's denote derived intransitive verbs dual pronoun English ergative ergative shape Flinders Ranges gerund gloss harmonise Hercus Hercus & White imperative intransitive intransitive verbaliser Kaurna Kuyani lateral consonant locative Luise Hercus main clause marker marking McEntee & McKenzie Miller morpheme morphology nasal Ngadjuri ngali nganha ngayi Nhawu Nhukunu nominative nouns Parnkalla past-tense phonemic phonological place of articulation plural Port Lincoln possessive shape present-tense ending prestopped probably reciprocal meanings refer reflexive reflexive/reciprocal retroflex rhotic Schebeck Schürmann lists Schürmann offers Schürmann records Schürmann spells Schürmann's grammar Schürmann's vocabulary Section seen sentence example sg ergative sg pronoun short-form shows signal singular pronouns someone spear stem stop consonant subjunctive suffix tense Thura-Yura languages transitive verbs translation trill Tunstill verb forms verb root vowel harmony Western Desert Wirangu