Description: This book brings together pioneering studies of 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.
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Book Title: Analysing Literary Sumerian : Corpus-Based Approaches
Publication Name: Analysing Literary Sumerian : Corpus-Based Approaches
Publisher: Equinox Publishing The Limited
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject: Languages
Publication Year: 2007
Type: Reference
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1.2 in
Author: Graham Cunningham, Jarle Ebeling
Item Weight: 12.6 Oz
Item Width: 6.5 in
Number of Pages: 426 Pages
