Copular Clauses and Focus Marking in Sumerian

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 morph...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-440702023-12-20T18:09:17Z Copular Clauses and Focus Marking in Sumerian Zólyomi, Gábor P1-1091 Sumerian grammaticalization copula copular clauses focus information structure cuneiform languages bic Book Industry Communication::C Language 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. 2021-02-11T10:36:23Z 2021-02-11T10:36:23Z 2014-11-17 10:36:30 2014 book 16488 9783110401691 9783110427349 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/44070 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/447760 De Gruyter 10.2478/9783110401707 10.2478/9783110401707 af2fbfcc-ee87-43d8-a035-afb9d7eef6a5 9783110401691 9783110427349 212 open access
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