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some nouns from the grammar I have written
_ [words crossed out]
(Mr Gunther here quoted from a grammar of the
- Aboriginal language compiled by himself
Let me now give you the various tenses
of the verb, for they abound in different forms
more than any language I have heard of.
- Read some conjugations:
_ But the greatest peculiarity consists in certain
modifications of the verb: as they are very
defective in adverbs then modifications make
up for them. There are about 20 [word crossed out]
such modifications which often serve [word crossed out]
form a compound verb: I will just
pass one verb through its various modifi-
cations that one may better comprehend
the peculiarity & use of them.
[Margin:]
[In numbers they are exceedingly poor, they have in the W. dial. only two, in
no dialect have Iheard of more than three. Though if they want to say three]
The system or construction of words & sentences
may be said is not so much regulated by
fixed [word crossed out] rules, but by the stress & emphasis
intended by the speaker, so that the words
of a given sentence may be variously transferred.