The grammar of perspective [[electronic resource] ] : the Sumerian conjugation prefixes as a system of voice / / by Christopher Woods
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Woods Christopher <1968->
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| Titolo: |
The grammar of perspective [[electronic resource] ] : the Sumerian conjugation prefixes as a system of voice / / by Christopher Woods
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (372 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 499/.955 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sumerian language - Affixes |
| Sumerian language - Morphology | |
| Sumerian language - Voice | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Partly based on the author's dissertation (doctoral--Harvard University). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-330) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material / C.E. Woods -- Chapter One. Introduction / C.E. Woods -- Chapter Two. Linguistic background—voice and related notions / C.E. Woods -- Chapter Three. Mu / C.E. Woods -- Chapter Four. Imma / C.E. Woods -- Chapter Five. Ba / C.E. Woods -- Conclusion / C.E. Woods -- Bibliography / C.E. Woods -- Index / C.E. Woods. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The so-called Sumerian conjugation prefixes are the most poorly understood and perplexing elements of Sumerian verbal morphology. Approaching the problem from a functional-typological perspective and basing the analysis upon semantics, Professor Woods argues that these elements, in their primary function, constitute a system of grammatical voice, in which the active voice is set against the middle voice. The latter is represented by heavy and light markers that differ with respect to focus and emphasis. As a system of grammatical voice, the conjugation prefixes provided Sumerian speakers with a linguistic means of altering the perspective from which events may be viewed, giving speakers a series of options for better approximating in language the infinitely graded spectrum of human conceptualization and experience. "Woods is to be commended for establishing a new precedent for analyzing Sumerian grammar which will hopefully become a model for future studies of the language." Paul Delnero, Johns Hopkins University |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The grammar of perspective |
| ISBN: | 1-282-39652-8 |
| 9786612396526 | |
| 90-474-4208-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455081203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Cuneiform monographs ; ; 32.