LEADER 02542nam 2200373 450 001 9910688492403321 005 20230626113300.0 035 $a(CKB)5400000000044346 035 $a(NjHacI)995400000000044346 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000044346 100 $a20230626d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCopular clauses and focus marking in Sumerian /$fGa?bor Zo?lyomi 210 1$aWarsaw :$cDe Gruyter Open,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) 225 1 $aLanguage, literature 311 $a3-11-042734-6 327 $aFrontmatter -- 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. 330 $aThis work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, it gives a thorough analysis of all uses of the copula, which is one of the least understood and most frequently misinterpreted and consequently mistranslated morphemes in Sumerian. It starts with a concise introduction into the grammatical structure of Sumerian, followed by a study that is accessible to both linguists and sumerologists, as it applies the terminology of modern descriptive linguistics. It provides the oldest known and documented example of the path of grammaticalization that leads from a copula to a focus marker. It gives the description of Sumerian copular paratactic relative clauses, which make use of an otherwise only scarcely attested relativization strategy. At the end of the book, the reader will have a clear picture about the morphological and syntactic devices used to mark identificational, polarity and sentence focus in Sumerian, one of the oldest documented languages in the world. 410 0$aLanguage, literature. 606 $aSumerian language$xGrammar 615 0$aSumerian language$xGrammar. 676 $a499.955 700 $aZo?lyomi$b Ga?bor$0803021 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910688492403321 996 $aCopular Clauses and Focus Marking in Sumerian$91804283 997 $aUNINA