Grammatische Relationen im Sumerischen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20323849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfgang Schulze (0009-0008-5855-0757), Walther Sallaberger |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-5299 • E-ISSN: 1613-1150 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/za.2007.010 |
| OpenAlex | W2039007138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
The present article discusses the foundations of Sumerian morphosyntax in the light of a strongly typological, and – in parts – cognitive perspective. The general layout of Sumerian morphosyntax, morphosemantics, morphopragmatics, and meaning constructions can be derived from universal patterns of arranging the basic constituents of clausal expressions, namely reference and relation. These cognitive constituents can be interlinked with the help of specific echoes that show up (in Sumerian) as case and agreement markers. The way of expressing these echoes as well as their functional (or: semantic) scope locate Sumerian constructional types on the Accusative Ergative Continuum. We will argue that the Sumerian constructional patterns have started from a dichotomic way of distinguishing center and periphery in an ergative way. This constructional pattern had a ‘syntactic’ value, as it allowed diathesis in order to encode a non-punctional, durative aspect. This aspect construction showed up as an antipassive that later became grammaticalized as an expression of non-past constructions. This ‘tense-split’, typical for a number of adjacent linguistic areas, ended up in the grammaticalization of the antipassive as an accusative construction (‘marû-construction’), whereas the past domain remained strongly ergative (‘-construction’). The accusative pattern then again allowed a diathesis which now was a passive in nature
Ergative case · Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Problem of universals · Sumerian · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Moving the actants
The Sumerian Verbal Core
Anmerkungen zum ‘Konjugationspräfix’ /i/- und zur These vom „silbischen Charakter der sumerischen Morpheme“ anhand neusumerischer Verbalformen beginnend mit ì-íb-, ì-im- und ì-in
Sumerian as an Ergative Language, I
Control and grammar
Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse
Head-Marking and Dependent-Marking Grammar
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2011 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |