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. 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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Place / Publishing House:Warsaw, [Poland] ;, Berlin, [Germany] : : De Gruyter Open,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Sumerian in a Nutshell
  • 2 Non-verbal Predicates in Sumerian
  • 3 A Typology of Sumerian Copular Clauses
  • 4 Attributive Copular Biclausal Constructions
  • 5 Specificational Copular Biclausal Constructions
  • 6 Subordinate Clauses Followed by a Copula
  • 7 Summary and Outlook
  • References
  • Index of Quoted Texts
  • Index of Subjects