Grammatical case in the languages of the Middle East and Europe : acts of the International Colloquium Variations, Concurrence et Evolution des Cas dans Divers Domaines Linguistiques, Paris, 2-4 April, 2007 / edited by Michèle Fruyt, Michel Mazoyer and Dennis Pardee.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fruyt, Michèle.

Mazoyer, Michel.

Pardee, Dennis.

Conference Name:

International Colloquium Variations, Concurrence et Evolution des Cas dans Divers Domaines Linguistiques (2007 : Paris, France)

Series:

Studies in ancient oriental civilization ; no. 64.

Studies in ancient oriental civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Case--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Language and languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Case.

Middle East--Languages--Congresses.

Middle East.

Europe--Languages--Congresses.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ; Oxford : Oxbow [distributor], 2011.

Summary:

Eight of the 29 papers are in English, the rest, along with the preface, are in French. The topics include the conjugation prefixes, the dative case, and the empathy hierarchy in Sumerian; some case problems in Ugaritic; grammatical roles of agent, subject, patient, and beneficiary in Hurrian; early Canaanite and Old Aramaic case in the light of language typology; allative in Indo-European; the problem of the ergative case in Hittite; and case markings of core arguments and alignment in Late Latin. There is no index. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781885923844

1885923848

OCLC:

757932037

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