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- Title
Waw sargonicum. On Parataxis in Sargonic Royal Inscriptions.
- Authors
Kogan, Leonid
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
IRAQ; INSCRIPTIONS; CONJUNCTIONS (Grammar); POSTPOSITIONS (Grammar); FRAMES (Linguistics); KINGS &; rulers
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie & Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 2014, Vol 104, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0084-5299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/za-2014-0002