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| Yoshikawa introduced the basic classification system of the Sumerian verb according to their hamtu/maru stem in a 1968 paper. There he proposed a so-called affixation class, the maru class of whose verbs was derived simply by suffixing a particle -e to the hamtu base. This became known as the maru -e. Yoshikawa saw this -e embedded in the so-called ' | Yoshikawa introduced the basic classification system of the Sumerian verb according to their hamtu/maru stem in a 1968 paper. There he proposed a so-called affixation class, the maru class of whose verbs was derived simply by suffixing a particle -e to the hamtu base. This became known as the maru -e. Yoshikawa saw this -e embedded in the so-called ' | ||
| - | Edzard, on the other hand, argued for a different analysis, in which the maru -e was actually part of the pronomial suffixes used in the maru conjugation. Yoshikawa' | + | Edzard, on the other hand, argued for a different analysis, in which the maru -e was actually part of the pronomial suffixes used in the maru conjugation. |
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| + | Thompson argued along the lines of Edzard. In objecting to Yoshikawa' | ||
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| + | Attinger (1993) cited examples of intransitive verbs like ku4 which exhibit both ku4-ku4 and ku4-re forms denoting the maru stem. He also observes the absolutive pronomial suffixes for intransitive verbs all begin with an -e (-en, -enden, -enzen, etc). Such an example, however, may simply be an instance where there are two ways of marking maru in the same verb (Rubio). | ||
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| + | The analysis is made more difficult by the fact that the actual form of the suffixes is somewhat obscured by the writing system. As an answer to Thompson' | ||
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| + | Rubio also makes an important point from the standpoint of linguistic typology which supports Yoshikawa' | ||
| == References == | == References == | ||
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| + | Attinger, Pascal 1993 Elements de linguistique sumerienne: | ||
| Edzard, 1971 Hamtu, Maru, und freie Reduplikation.... | Edzard, 1971 Hamtu, Maru, und freie Reduplikation.... | ||
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| + | Thompson, Sumerian grammar. | ||
| Yoshikawa, 1968 Maru and Hamtu aspects | Yoshikawa, 1968 Maru and Hamtu aspects | ||
| Yoshikawa, 1974 The Maru Conjugation in the Sumerian Verbal System | Yoshikawa, 1974 The Maru Conjugation in the Sumerian Verbal System | ||
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| + | Rubio, Gonzalo. 2006 Sumerian Morphology | ||
