132 R. H. MATHEWS. 



Dual 



( 1st Person / 0ur heads ' incL Wolla ^guUung 

 J ( Our heads, excl. Wollarngullin 



^ 2nd „ Your heads, Wollarawulung 



' 3rd „ Their heads, Wollarwulanu 



r 1st Person I 0ur heads ' incl " Wollarn y inn ung 

 p, , \ \ Our heads, excl. Wollarnyinnin 



J 2nd ,, Your heads, Wollarnhurung 



^ 3rd „ Their heads, Wollardhunnang 



A boomerang, warrangan, can be inflected in the same way. 

 An example in the singular will be sufficient: 



f 1st Person My boomerang, Warrangandyen 



Singular < 2nd ,, Thy boomerang, Warranganngun 



( 3rd ,, His boomerang, Warranganhung 



In these examples the pronominal suffix follows the noun, the 

 words reading, head my, boomerang my, and so on. In the dual 

 and plural, first person, there are two forms of the word — one 

 marked "incl.," including the person spoken to; and the other,, 

 "excl.," in which the person addressed is excluded. If a couple, 

 or several, articles are claimed, an infix is inserted between the 

 noun root and the possessive termination, as follows : — 

 Warranganbulalidyen, boomerangs two mine 

 Warranganbuloaladyen, boomerangs several mine. 



3. The accusative is the same as the simple nominative in direct 

 statements such as — Yuindyu gujaga bulmaia, the man the child 

 struck. There are exceptions to this rule, however, when an 

 instrument is the direct object of the verb, as, Warrangandya 

 wawarnang yerriangai, a boomerang at a crow threw I. Here 

 the accusive, "boomerang," takes a similar suffix to the nominative. 

 Again, Ngurrungalla ngadyungo ngaimilai, the woman water 

 brings; and Wuragalgangga mundubangga bundaia, the man with 

 a tomahawk chopped. 



Again, in expressions where the instrument is the remote object, 

 the accusative is unchanged, and the suffix is added to the instru- 

 mental case, thus, Yuindyu warrangandya gujaga bulmaia, the 

 man with a boomerang a child struck. In such instances the 

 nominative suffix is often omitted, and the instrumental only 

 employed. 



