Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
Pre-verbal /n/:function, distribution, and stability
Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
Jarle Ebeling [+]
University of Oxford
Jarle Ebeling is a researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, specializing in corpus linguistics.
Description
This chapter focuses on one of the grammatical morphemes of Sumerian -- the pre-verbal element /n/ -- whose grammatical function continues to be called into question from time to time. The chapter introduces a new methodology for approaching this question.