Copular Clauses and Focus Marking in Sumerian

ISBN-13: 9783110401691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 212 str.

Gabor Zolyomi

Opis

This work is the first comprehensive description of Sumerian constructions involving a copula. Applying the terminology of modern descriptive linguistics, it is accessible to both linguists and sumerologists. Using around 400 fully glossed examples, the book provides an analysis of all uses of the copula and provides a description of the morphological and syntactic devices used to mark identificational, polarity and sentence focus in Sumerian.

Recenzje

"This book is an important piece of work for people working on the Sumerian language, as well as for general or historical linguists interested in the typology of copular clauses and in the grammaticalization processes that may be related to the copula or to focus marking in any language."Veronika Hegedüs in: Acta Linguistica Hungarica 62/2015

O autorze

Gábor Zólyomi, Associate Professor at the Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest