Copular clauses and focus marking in Sumerian / Gábor Zólyomi ; managing editor, Katarzyna Grzegorek ; associate editor: Anna Borowska ; language editor, Allison Kirk.
This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Applying the terminology of modern descriptive linguistics, it is accessible to both linguists and sumerologists. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, the book provides an analysis of all uses of the c...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Warsaw [Poland] ; Berlin [Germany] :
De Gruyter Open,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Applying the terminology of modern descriptive linguistics, it is accessible to both linguists and sumerologists. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, the book provides an analysis of all uses of the copula and provides a description of the morphological and syntactic devices used to mark identificational, polarity and sentence focus in Sumerian. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110401707 3110401703 9783110401691 311040169X 9783110427349 3110427346 |