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Author | : Gábor Zólyomi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2014-09-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110401703 |
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This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, it gives a thorough analysis of all uses of the copula, which is one of the least understood and most frequently misinterpreted and consequently mistranslated morphemes in Sumerian. It starts with a concise introduction into the grammatical structure of Sumerian, followed by a study that is accessible to both linguists and sumerologists, as it applies the terminology of modern descriptive linguistics. It provides the oldest known and documented example of the path of grammaticalization that leads from a copula to a focus marker. It gives the description of Sumerian copular paratactic relative clauses, which make use of an otherwise only scarcely attested relativization strategy. At the end of the book, the reader will have a clear picture about the morphological and syntactic devices used to mark identificational, polarity and sentence focus in Sumerian, one of the oldest documented languages in the world.
Author | : Werner Abraham |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-07-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027260877 |
Download Thetics and Categoricals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They left profound and extensive traces in the logic of the late 19th century. For the class of thetic propositions, the criterion of textual exclusion plays the major role, i.e. the absence of any common grounds and of any anaphorism and background. In the foreground are sentences with subject inversion, subject suppression and detopicalization. These and only these are suitable for text beginnings, jokes, stage advertisements and solipsistic exclamatives, thus speech acts without communicative goals – free expressives in the true sense of the word. The contributions in this volume not only guide the reader through the history of philosophical logic and distributions of impersonals in contrast to Kantian categorical sentences, but also the correspondences in Japanese and Chinese which, in contrast to German and English, sport specific morphological markers for thetics as opposed to categoricals.
Author | : Christopher Woods |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008-05-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047442083 |
Download The Grammar of Perspective Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The so-called Sumerian conjugation prefixes are the most poorly understood and perplexing elements of Sumerian verbal morphology. Approaching the problem from a functional-typological perspective and basing the analysis upon semantics, Professor Woods argues that these elements, in their primary function, constitute a system of grammatical voice, in which the active voice is set against the middle voice.
Author | : Dietz Otto Edzard |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2003-08-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9047403401 |
Download Sumerian Grammar Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It seems safe to say that this Sumerian Grammar by Professor D.O. Edzard will become the new classic reference in the field. It is an up-to-date, reliable guide to the language of the Sumerians, the inventors of cuneiform writing in the late 4th millennium B.C., and thus essential contributors to the high cultural standard of the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. Following traditional lines, the Grammar describes general characteristics, origins, linguistic environment, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and phraseology. Due attention is given to the symbiosis with Semitic Akkadian, with which Sumerian was to form a veritable linguistic area. With lucid explanations of all technical linguistic theory. Each transliteration carries its English translation.
Author | : Gábor Zólyomi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Sumerian language |
ISBN | : 9789632848440 |
Download An Introduction to the Grammar of Sumerian Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This textbook provides an introduction to the grammar of Sumerian, one of the oldest documented languages in the world. It not only synthesizes the results of recent scholarship but introduces original insights on many important questions. The book is designed to appeal to readers of all backgrounds, including those with no prior background in Sumerian or cuneiform writing.It is written for undergraduate students and structured for a semester-long course: the order of the topics is determined by didactic considerations, with the focus on syntactic analysis and evidence. It explains the functioning of Sumerian grammar in 16 lessons, illustrated with more than 500 fully glossed examples. Each lesson ends with a series of tasks; a solution key to selected exercises can be found at the end of the volume. Above all, this is the first Sumerian textbook that introduces and utilizes the online assyriological resources available on the internet. An Introduction to the Grammar of Sumerian has been written on the assumption that after decades of grammatical research it has become possible now to teach a general framework of Sumerian grammar that may function as the basis of further, more intensive and elaborate studies.
Author | : Daniel A. Foxvog |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2011 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Daniel A. Foxvog |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-08-04 |
Genre | : Sumerian language |
ISBN | : 9781500724269 |
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Introduction to Sumerian Grammar
Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1661 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1316790665 |
Download The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them. Part I covers phonological typology, morphological typology, sociolinguistic typology and the relationships between typology, historical linguistics and grammaticalization. It also addresses typological features of mixed languages, creole languages, sign languages and secret languages. Part II features contributions on the typology of morphological processes, noun categorization devices, negation, frustrative modality, logophoricity, switch reference and motion events. Finally, Part III focuses on typological profiles of the mainland South Asia area, Australia, Quechuan and Aymaran, Eskimo-Aleut, Iroquoian, the Kampa subgroup of Arawak, Omotic, Semitic, Dravidian, the Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian and the Awuyu-Ndumut family (in West Papua). Uniting the expertise of a stellar selection of scholars, this Handbook highlights linguistic typology as a major discipline within the field of linguistics.
Author | : Igor Mel'cuk |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110199866 |
Download Aspects of the Theory of Morphology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book is dedicated to linguistic morphology and it contains a sketch of a complete morphological theory, centered around a discussion of fundamental concepts such as morph vs. morpheme, inflectional category, voice, grammatical case, agreement vs. government, suppletion, relationships between linguistic signs, etc.: the hottest issues in modern linguistics! The book introduces rigorous and clear concepts necessary to describe morphological phenomena of natural languages. Among other things, it offers logical calculi of possible grammemes in a given category. The presentation is developed in a typological perspective, so that linguistic data from a large variety of languages are described and analyzed (about 100 typologically very different languages). The main method is deductive: the concepts proposed in Aspects of the Theory of Morphology are based on a small set of indefinibilia and each concept is defined in terms of these indefinibilia and/or other concepts defined previously; as a result, logical calculi can be constructed (similar to Mendeleev's Periodical Table of Elements in chemistry). Then the concept is applied to the actual linguistic data to demonstrate its validity and advantages. Thus, Aspects of the Theory of Morphology combines metalinguistic endeavor (a system of concepts for morphology) with typological and descriptive orientation. It reaches out to all students of language, including the border fields and applications.
Author | : Espen Karlsen |
Publisher | : Peter Lang Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download The Accusativus Cum Infinitivo and Quod Clauses in the Revelaciones of St. Bridget of Sweden Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study investigates the variation between the accusativus cum infinitivo (a.c.i.) and quod clauses with verba sentiendi and declarandi in the Revelaciones, Books I-VII, of St. Bridget of Sweden (1303-73). This variation is considered to be a characteristic feature of late and mediaeval Latin. The author analyses grammatical patterns which are important or decisive for the choice of construction after the main verb in the text of the Revelaciones. These patterns are connected with semantic criteri such as assertivity, with the category of co-reference and with stylistic factors and must be regarded as fundamental to the Latinity of the Revelaciones. An examination of the moods in quod clauses, the sequence of moods and tenses and a brief survey of subordinate constructions with verba voluntatis and curandi is also included.