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Adjectival ša syntagms and adjectives in Old Babylonian*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2008

Eran Cohen
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, email: mseranc@tms.huji.ac.il

Abstract

This paper describes attribution in Old Babylonian. The principles drawn upon are the traditional view of Akkadian syntax, modern Semitic syntax, and the principles of European structuralism. Bringing all these together, while exemplifying and proving previous unexplained statements by using Old Babylonian material, renders the whole issue tangible for every linguistically-oriented reader. ša syntagms are described, each component separately, as a pronominal construct nucleus with an attribute; this attribute is either a nominal or a clause. ša syntagms, being appositive to a referent substantive (when occurring), are in the same paradigm with adjectives, which are shown to have the same components as ša syntagms: a pronominal nucleus, an attribute and the attributive link between them.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2008

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* I would like to thank Professors Gideon Goldenberg, Shlomo Izre’el and Mr Eitan Grossman for their constructive remarks. The grammatical glosses (and gloss-related insignia) are used as follows: subord (subordinative morpheme), const (construct state), gen (genitive), acc (accusative), nom (nominative), obl (oblique), non-gen (non-genitive), dem (demonstrative), m (masculine), f (feminine), s (singular), p (plural), conn. (connective), (x) means a syntactic, rather than morphological marking, {x} marks glosses outside the examples.