29.1635, Books: On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Sumerian Grammar: Huber

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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:55:14
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Sumerian Grammar: Huber

 


Title: On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Sumerian Grammar 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 87  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LSASL-87-On-the-Old-Babylonian-Understanding-of-Sumerian-Grammar/en 


Author: Peter J. Huber

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862888689 Pages: 142 Price: Europe EURO 82.80 Comment: size A4


Abstract:

This essay is on the earliest serious grammatical documents in existence: a
set of bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian verbal paradigms. These fascinating texts
date to the early second millennium BC, when Sumerian was dead or dying as a
spoken language, and are preserved in the tablet collection of the Oriental
Institute of the University of Chicago. The Appendix reprints them together
with morphological analyses and an English translation. They provide a bright
spotlight on Sumerian verbal morpho-syntax – probably as sophisticated as is
possible within a paradigmatic, non-discursive presentation.

A considerable effort is made here to extract the Sumerian grammatical
structure, as it was understood by the Babylonians, from these texts alone.
The paradigmatic grids are based on the Akkadian language, but they are
complemented by inserts illustrating Sumerian features that do not fit into
the Akkadian straitjacket. These texts are of unique importance for the early
history of linguistics, but regrettably, they are hardly known outside of
Sumerological circles. Interestingly, they seem to put special emphasis on
aspects that still are controversial in modern Sumerian grammars, sometimes
offering discordant interpretations. For example, deviating from modern
grammars, they make a clear syntactic distinction between the first person
pronoun and the ventive.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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