LEADER 03570nam 2200625 450 001 9910796457503321 005 20221206104842.0 010 $a3-11-040170-3 024 7 $a10.2478/9783110401707 035 $a(CKB)3810000000000140 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001451729 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12614262 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001451729 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11479461 035 $a(PQKB)10762251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1744558 035 $a(DE-B1597)443704 035 $a(OCoLC)900715264 035 $a(OCoLC)912309545 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110401707 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1744558 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11054955 035 $a(OCoLC)939262655 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000000140 100 $a20150531h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCopular clauses and focus marking in Sumerian /$fGa?bor Zo?lyomi ; managing editor, Katarzyna Grzegorek ; associate editor: Anna Borowska ; language editor, Allison Kirk 210 1$aWarsaw, [Poland] ;$aBerlin, [Germany] :$cDe Gruyter Open,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a3-11-040169-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1 Sumerian in a Nutshell --$t2 Non-verbal Predicates in Sumerian --$t3 A Typology of Sumerian Copular Clauses --$t4 Attributive Copular Biclausal Constructions --$t5 Specificational Copular Biclausal Constructions --$t6 Subordinate Clauses Followed by a Copula --$t7 Summary and Outlook --$tReferences --$tIndex of Quoted Texts --$tIndex 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. 606 $aSumerian language$xSyntax 610 $aSumerian, copula, focus, information structure, copular clauses, grammaticalization, cuneiform languages. 615 0$aSumerian language$xSyntax. 676 $a499/.955 686 $aEM 1850$2rvk 700 $aZo?lyomi$b Ga?bor$0803021 702 $aKirk$b Allison 702 $aBorowska$b Anna 702 $aGrzegorek$b Katarzyna 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796457503321 996 $aCopular Clauses and Focus Marking in Sumerian$91804283 997 $aUNINA