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Copular Clauses and Focus Marking in Sumerian
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Gábor Zólyomi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-05 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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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 anal
Thetics and Categoricals
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Werner Abraham
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-22 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Thetics and Categoricals do not belong to the categories of German grammar. Thetics were introduced in logic as impersonal and broad focus constructions. They l
Encoding Metalinguistic Awareness
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: E. Cancik-Kirschbaum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-31 - Publisher: PeWe-Verlag

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The Ancient Near East provides a particularly striking example for the dynamics of knowledge transfer throughout space and time. The civilizations that emerged
An Introduction to the Grammar of Sumerian
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Gábor Zólyomi
Categories: Sumerian language
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:

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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 r
Differential Subject Marking
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Helen de Hoop
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-04 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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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