http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:04:12 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/ http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:case Case In general, case or case-marking is a morphosyntactic device or mechanism that is used to indicate, at a minimum, who is doing what to whom. English, for example, often uses word order to show which noun is the entity that is performing the action of the verb and which noun is affected by the action of the verb. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:30:02 +0000 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:gender Gender Grammatical gender should, first of all, be differentiated from both social/cultural gender and biological sex (see Wikipedia's page on gender for the difference). Grammatical gender is a way of describing classes of nouns within a language that code a variety of information such as anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:28:26 +0000 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:number Number Like a number of languages in East Asia, Sumerian has an optional nominal suffix that indicates plurality, /-ene/. Only animate nouns and nominal phrases are capable of taking this suffix—inanimate nominals do not occur with the suffix. dingir-re-ne anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:30:02 +0000 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:orthography Orthography This grammar will attempt to reflect Assyriological conventions as much as possible in its representations of cuneiform, but certain modifications will be adopted that make it easier to represent the writing system on the web. Where this grammar departs from Assyriological convention, it will generally adhere to the anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:18:32 +0000 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:the_death_of_sumerian_as_a_spoken_language How did Sumerian die? This often debated question is more complex, both in its meaning and its possible answers, than casual consideration might suggest. It is true that everyone has a concrete idea of what a living language is, as well as a dead one. The former is spoken by individuals in some community in the course of their daily interactions, while the latter has no one who speaks it in his daily life and exists only in writing, if that at all. Nevertheless these two conceptions sit at oppo… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:51:50 +0000 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:topic_marking Topic marking Unlike other areas of grammatical structure, the recognition and definition of pragmatic categories such as topic and focus, is a recent phenomenon and theory independent definitions of pragmatic categories are difficult to find. Givón summarizes the early history of the term in Prague School and subsequent functionalist camps as follows: anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:29:44 +0000 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:transliteration_and_the_diacritics Transliteration and the diacritics Thoughtout the history of Assyriology, cuneiformists have used a wide variety of orthographic conventions for the representation of cuneiform signs in alphabetic script. The set of orthographic conventions known as anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:29:44 +0000 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:typological_structure Typological structure One major branch of linguistic investigation that has been particularly useful in the study of languages recovered from text-artifactual sources such as the cuneiform record is language typology. Recent work on language typology largely stems a seminal paper by anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:29:44 +0000 http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian:verbal_stems The 'Maru -e' History of research Yoshikawa introduced the basic classification system of the Sumerian verb according to their hamtu/maru stem in a 1968 paper. There he proposed a so-called affixation class, the maru class of whose verbs was derived simply by suffixing a particle -e to the hamtu base. This became known as the maru -e. Yoshikawa saw this -e embedded in the so-called '-ed' morpheme, arguing that it was actually a compound /-e/ + /-d/. As a result, analyzed the pronomial maru suf… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:37:20 +0000