Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
Variation in the multiword expression igi bar in the Old Babylonian period
Analysing Literary Sumerian - Corpus-based Approaches - Jarle Ebeling
Jarle Ebeling [+]
University of Oxford
Jarle Ebeling is a researcher at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, specializing in corpus linguistics.
Description
This paper aims to describe the variations in the syntactic construction of the multiword verb igi bar 'to look at something/somebody'. The paper includes two Appendices which present the evidence on which its conclusions are based, which are that the grammatical variations of this expression can be accounted for by referring to influence from Akkadian i.e. the akkadization of Sumerian.