The Grammar of Perspective: The Sumerian Conjugation Prefixes As a System of Voice
Christopher Woods
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. These prefixes are, in turn, 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.
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2008
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
348
ISBN 10:
9004148043
Serie:
Cuneiform Monographs
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PDF, 2.52 MB
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english, 2008
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