Clamor Schürmann's Barngarla grammar: A commentary on the first section of A vocabulary of the Parnkalla language

The 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 reconst...

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Main Author: Clendon, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Adelaide Press 2015
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