Waw sargonicum: on parataxis in sargonic royal inscriptions
According to a widespread belief, the prepositive connective conjunction *wa-, a highly prominent Common Semitic syntactic feature, is generally lost in Akkadian, where it is replaced by the postpositive -ma. The article investigates the paratactic structures of the earliest syntactically informativ...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2014
|
| In: |
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
Year: 2014, Volume: 104, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-55 |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | According to a widespread belief, the prepositive connective conjunction *wa-, a highly prominent Common Semitic syntactic feature, is generally lost in Akkadian, where it is replaced by the postpositive -ma. The article investigates the paratactic structures of the earliest syntactically informative documents written in Akkadian, the Sargonic royal inscriptions, in an attempt to show that the role of the connective u in this corpus is radically different from what we find in its later analogues. This fact may have some implications for the diachronic background of the connective element /u/ in Sumerian. As for the history of the Akkadian parataxis as a whole, interesting structural parallels to it are found on the opposite extreme of the Semitic-speaking world, in the modern Semitic languages of Ethiopia. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1613-1150 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Archäologie
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/za-2014-0002 |