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In the eye of the beholder: Quantificational, pragmatic and aspectual features of the *bi-√ verbal prefix in Sumerian.

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Title/Author:	In the eye of the beholder: Quantificational, pragmatic and aspectual features of the *bi-√ verbal prefix in Sumerian./
Author:	Johnson, Justin Cale.
Description:	349 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A, page: 4173.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-11A.
Subject:	Ancient languages. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3154992
ISBN:	9780496157211

In the eye of the beholder: Quantificational, pragmatic and aspectual features of the *bi-√ verbal prefix in Sumerian.
Johnson, Justin Cale.

In the eye of the beholder: Quantificational, pragmatic and aspectual features of the *bi-√ verbal prefix in Sumerian. - 349 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A, page: 4173.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2004.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Traditional models of Sumerian grammar suggest that the primary function of the *bi-√ verbal prefix is as a marker of locative agreement of one kind or another, but these models have, as a rule, described the *bi-√ prefix in purely morphological terms and failed to elucidate syntactic relations that hold between the *bi-√ prefix and other elements of the clauses in which it occurs. One of the consequences of the traditional avoidance of syntactic questions in the study of Sumerian is that almost nothing is known about several grammatical phenomena that appear to be coded through syntactic means such as definiteness, existential quantification, and the pragmatic opposition between topic and focus. This dissertation investigates the *bi-√ prefix as part of a larger effort to identify some of these basic morphosyntactic oppositions in the text-artifactual record of the Sumerian materials that originate from Old Babylonian Period (ca. 2000--1600 BCE) in Mesopotamia. I argue that the occurrence of a bare inalienable noun immediately to the left of a *bi-√ prefix verb forms a distinctive morphosyntactic construction which can be identified on the basis of both morphosyntactic and semantic critieria as a low source applicative construction.

ISBN: 9780496157211Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122823
Ancient languages.

In the eye of the beholder: Quantificational, pragmatic and aspectual features of the *bi-√ verbal prefix in Sumerian.
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