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Author : Daniel A. Foxvog
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : 1500724262
Introduction to Sumerian Grammar
Author : Gábor Zólyomi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : 9632848446
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 : Joshua Bowen,Megan Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : 1734358602
Author : Marie-Louise Thomsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : 8750036548
Author : Dietz Otto Edzard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789047403401
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 : Christopher Woods
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004148048
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 : Marie-Louise Thomsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : UCSC:32106013940330
Author : John Lewis Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : 0890035083
Author : John Dyneley Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : CORNELL:31924026784052
Author : C.J. Gadd
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : History
ISBN : 9785873153022
Author : Jeremy A. Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Akkaddian language
ISBN : UVA:X001144424
Author : Jarle Ebeling,Graham Cunningham
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015068799991
This book brings together pioneering studies on the world's oldest literature, composed in the extinct language Sumerian and written on clay in the cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script. All the contributions are based on the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University whose focus is on the best documented period of Sumerian literature, compositions recorded some 4,000 years ago in southern Iraq. The ETCSL consists of transliterations and translations of nearly 400 compositions and is accessible via the Internet. It is the only linguistically annotated and translated corpus of an ancient Near Eastern language. Each of the main chapters in the book uses the ETCSL to approach a specific question relating to one or more compositions in the corpus, exploiting the possibilities the corpus offers for quantitative research and statistical analysis. In addition to these case studies, the book includes introductions to Sumerian literary language and corpus-linguistic approaches to research, as well as a catalogue of compositions. The material, methods, and results will appeal to those interested in Sumerian, ancient literature, and the analysis of languages using a corpus.
Author : Samuel Noah Kramer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226452326
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second millenniums B.C. This book is an unparalleled compendium of what is known about them. Professor Kramer communicates his enthusiasm for his subject as he outlines the history of the Sumerian civilization and describes their cities, religion, literature, education, scientific achievements, social structure, and psychology. Finally, he considers the legacy of Sumer to the ancient and modern world. "There are few scholars in the world qualified to write such a book, and certainly Kramer is one of them. . . . One of the most valuable features of this book is the quantity of texts and fragments which are published for the first time in a form available to the general reader. For the layman the book provides a readable and up-to-date introduction to a most fascinating culture. For the specialist it presents a synthesis with which he may not agree but from which he will nonetheless derive stimulation."—American Journal of Archaeology "An uncontested authority on the civilization of Sumer, Professor Kramer writes with grace and urbanity."—Library Journal
Author : Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119193296
Covers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near East Filled with enlightening chapters by noted experts in the field, this book introduces Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) languages and language families used during the time period of roughly 3200 BCE to the second century CE in the areas of Egypt, the Levant, eastern Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran. In addition to providing grammatical sketches of the respective languages, the book focuses on socio-linguistic questions such as language contact, diglossia, the development of literary standard languages, and the development of diplomatic languages or “linguae francae.” It also addresses the interaction of Ancient Near Eastern languages with each other and their roles within the political and cultural systems of ANE societies. Presented in five parts, The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages provides readers with in-depth chapter coverage of the writing systems of ANE, starting with their decipherment. It looks at the emergence of cuneiform writing; the development of Egyptian writing in the fourth and early third millennium BCI; and the emergence of alphabetic scripts. The book also covers many of the individual languages themselves, including Sumerian, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hittite, Pre- and Post-Exilic Hebrew, Phoenician, Ancient South Arabian, and more. Provides an overview of all major language families and writing systems used in the Ancient Near East during the time period from the beginning of writing (approximately 3200 BCE) to the second century CE (end of cuneiform writing) Addresses how the individual languages interacted with each other and how they functioned in the societies that used them Written by leading experts on the languages and topics The Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages is an ideal book for undergraduate students and scholars interested in Ancient Near Eastern cultures and languages or certain aspects of these languages.
Author : John L. Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0979893739
