Copular Clauses And Focus Marking In Sumerian

Author : Gábor Zólyomi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110401707

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Copular Clauses and Focus Marking in Sumerian by Gábor Zólyomi Pdf

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,Elisabeth Leiss,Yasuhiro Fujinawa
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027260871

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Thetics and Categoricals by Werner Abraham,Elisabeth Leiss,Yasuhiro Fujinawa Pdf

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 : Dietz Otto Edzard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789047403401

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Sumerian Grammar by Dietz Otto Edzard Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : 9632848446

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An Introduction to the Grammar of Sumerian by Gábor Zólyomi Pdf

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 : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : 1500724262

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Introduction to Sumerian Grammar by Daniel A. Foxvog Pdf

Introduction to Sumerian Grammar

Author : Igor Mel'cuk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110199864

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Aspects of the Theory of Morphology by Igor Mel'cuk Pdf

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 : Michael D. Fortescue
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Historical linguistics
ISBN : 8772897066

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The Domain of Language by Michael D. Fortescue Pdf

This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception of Linguistics as the domain of dusty schoolroom grammar, where proponents of one theoretical orientation or the other spend their brief breaks in the playground bashing the others over the head with their favorite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and, worse still, lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. The purpose is to show that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. The subject is introduced in an unconventional way as a kind of fable with an historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a commentary on the state of the discipline today.

Author : Helen de Hoop,Peter de Swart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9048122635

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Differential Subject Marking by Helen de Hoop,Peter de Swart Pdf

Not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some languages overtly mark some subjects depending on certain features of the subject argument or the sentence in which the subject figures. This is known as Differential Subject Marking (DSM). Containing illuminating discussions of DSM from languages all over the world, this book shows that DSM is often the result of interactions between conflicting constraints on language use.

Author : Christian Lehmann
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234067

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Thoughts on grammaticalization by Christian Lehmann Pdf

"Thoughts on grammaticalization" was first published in a working-paper version in 1982 and became very influential immediately, even though it was properly published only in 1995. Despite its modest title, the book can be read as an advanced introduction to grammaticalization, though its conception is very original. The present edition contains a number of corrections of the 1995 edition. After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which is based on the autonomy of the linguistic sign with respect to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. This is the basis of the structural parameters that constitute grammaticalization. They are operationalized to the point of rendering degrees of grammaticalization measurable.

Author : Espen Karlsen
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053780501

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The Accusativus Cum Infinitivo and Quod Clauses in the Revelaciones of St. Bridget of Sweden by Espen Karlsen Pdf

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.

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1661 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316790663

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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

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 : Jan Rijkhoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199269645

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The Noun Phrase by Jan Rijkhoff Pdf

Jan Rijkhoff investigates noun phrases--linguistic constructions with the noun as central element--in a representative sample of the world's 6000 languages and proposes a semantic model to describe their underlying structure. Assuming no knowledge of any formal or functional theory of grammar, he shows that the noun phrase word order patterns of any language can be derived from three universal ordering principles and furthermore that these principles are elaborations of a general ordering strategy, by which elements that belong together semantically tend to occur together syntactically.

Author : Christopher Woods
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004148048

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The Grammar of Perspective by Christopher Woods Pdf

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. The latter is represented by heavy and light markers that differ with respect to focus and emphasis. As a system of grammatical voice, the conjugation prefixes provided Sumerian speakers with a linguistic means of altering the perspective from which events may be viewed, giving speakers a series of options for better approximating in language the infinitely graded spectrum of human conceptualization and experience.

Author : Robert Lawrence Trask
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9780415413596

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Language and Linguistics by Robert Lawrence Trask Pdf

"The new edition of this A-Z guide explores the main concepts and terms used in the study of language and linguistics. Containing over 300 entries, thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this book includes entires in: cognitive linguistics; discourse analysis; phonology and phonetics; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics; and syntax and semantics." "Beginning with brief definition, each entry is followed by a comprehensive explanation of the origin and usage of the term. The book is cross-referenced throughout and includes further reading for academics and students alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Shlomo Izre'el,Eran Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : UOM:39015060559294

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Literary Old Babylonian by Shlomo Izre'el,Eran Cohen Pdf