Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches (Hardcover)

This book brings together pioneering studies on the world's oldest literature, which was composed before and after 2000 BCE in the extinct language Sumerian. All the contributions are based on the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University that has edited and published nearly four hundred compositions and acts as a repository for research in Sumerian grammar, lexis, and style. The ETCSL, which is accessible through the internet and can be read for pleasure as well as study, is the only linguistically annotated and translated corpus of an ancient Near Eastern language. Each chapter of this book uses the ETCSL to approach a specific question relating to one or more compositions in the corpus, exploiting the new possibilities it offers to use quantitative methods and verify results. In addition to the themed studies, the book includes introductions to Sumerian literary language and corpus-linguistic approaches to research, as well as a catalogue of compositions. The material, methods, and results will be of great value to Assyriologists, literary scholars, and others investigating languages through a corpus.

General

Imprint:	Equinox Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2007
First published:	2007
Editors:	Jarle Ebeling • Graham Cunningham
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-84553-229-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84553-229-5
Barcode:	9781845532291

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