Ngayoo… moodigang bard arr nganjoogal Katy-ngan, moodigangab jina woobijal mayalan. Niimana ambooriny. Ginyinggon garra garra garra I-10-nyarr bard arr nganjoon … goolngan. Aarlimay nganarligal, milimili nganjal, nganngan nganganka … milimili nganamboona biggestmob. Warrgam nganmankal… warrgam warrgam… Roowil ngannyanggalirr libraryngan milimili, agal nyalab jan baarlingan. Gaari nganibin arinyji.
[What I did today - had to look up [...]
Bard arr ngankiya Ardiyooloonngan laamba, agal liyan nganman barnngan mayoon Baarding ngaanka. Ginyinggamba Baarding ngayoo milimil ngonkowa Yan-nhaŋunharraŋu! Arragorror joonim nyimoonggoon mayimbaran milimil jarri, anjilngangay! Ngalamanka ooloomanjin ngaanka, jawal, agal ngangalgan. Ngayarginjan ngayanyja anggarda ngayilnga.
Milimil ngaankang nganjalagal: 5
[Rationale/sort of translation: I'm going to One Arm Point before too long so need to get back into [...]
I’ve been translating and annotating Bardi in preparation for my upcoming trip and something occurred to me this morning. In several texts the hero is creeping through the scrub and making sure he’s not being followed (or about to be attacked), or he’s tracking someone. At each point, the hero is described as doing something [...]
And here’s another paper on historical complex predicates, this time on the reconstruction of Nyulnyulan complex predication strategies. Comments are again very welcome.
This from David Nash: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14537549
This is another article on the Enduring Voices project, this time on NPR, and it has sound clips. There’s a Bardi sentence about 1/4 of the way in. The transcript is ngajanarr borla ‘[they are] my younger brothers’. Note that the gloss given in the program is wrong: it’s not older [...]
I’m leaving Canberra on Monday morning (6am, just as well I’m still jetlagged) for Adelaide for the ALS/ILC meeting, which I’m really looking forward to. I’m going to serialise my fieldwork and travel plans here over the next few days.
I’m going to the SA Museum on Monday to look at the Bardi and Nyulnyulan materials [...]
I’m going to try to give regular updates for what’s being achieved on grants, since it’s a good way for me to do record-keeping and it may be useful for others to see what grant tracking looks like.
We started in June. Since then, here’s what’s been achieved:
I bought a field laptop.
Linda ran all my Laves [...]
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