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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SUMERIAN COMPOUND VERBS <SUP>1</SUP>
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- KARAHASHI Fumi
- Research Assistant, University of Pennsylvania
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- SOME OBSERVATIONS ON SUMERIAN COMPOUND VERBS 1
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This paper focuses on the lexico-semantic and morphosyntactic aspects of Sumerian compound verbs, namely, the verbs that consist of a noun and a verb stem. They are very frequent in Sumerian, and the majority have a noun designating a part of the body as their nominal constituent, indicating the body-part's involvement in a given expression. I consider Sumerian compound verbs as a type of noun incorporation called lexical compounding whose constituents are formally discontinuous. The nominal constituent is semantically incorporated but, unlike typical cases of noun incorporation in other languages, it holds its syntactic status occupying the absolutive position. Therefore, it can regain its semantic independence in some constructions, thus allowing its referentiality to be manipulable. I believe that this study of the compound verbs, using a functional-typological approach, contributes to our understanding of some aspects of the Sumerian verbal system and to the typology of noun incorporation.
Journal
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- Orient
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Orient 39 96-110, 2004
THE SOCIETY FOR NEAR EASTERN STUDIES IN JAPAN
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- CRID
- 1390282680331596544
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- NII Article ID
- 130003750769
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- ISSN
- 18841392
- 04733851
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- Disallowed