Copular clauses and focus marking in Sumerian / / Gábor Zólyomi.
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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Superior document: | Language, literature |
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Place / Publishing House: | Warsaw : : De Gruyter Open,, 2014. |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Language, literature.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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.