Author | : Christopher Woods |
File Size | : 42,9 Mb |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 31 May 2008 |
ISBN | : 9789047442080 |
Pages | : 372 pages |
The Grammar of Perspective by Christopher Woods Book PDF Summary
The so-called Sumerian conjugation prefixes are the most poorly understood and perplexing elements of Sumerian verbal morphology. Approaching the problem from a functional-typological perspective and basing the analysis upon semantics, Professor Woods argues that these elements, in their primary function, constitute a system of grammatical voice, in which the active voice is set against the middle voice.