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| (1) Mary gave the comic book to Sue. | (1) Mary gave the comic book to Sue. |
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| In (1), a traditional description of the case-marking involved would label "Mary" as the //subject// (see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_%28grammar%29]]) of the sentence, "the comic book" as the //direct object // (see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_object]]), and "Sue" as the //indirect object//. Other languages, including all of the languages that were written in cuneiform, do not primarily use word order to indicate who is doing what to whom. | In (1), a traditional description of the case-marking involved would label "Mary" as the //subject// (see this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_%28grammar%29|wikipedia article on grammatical subject]]) of the sentence, "the comic book" as the //direct object // (see this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_object|wikipedia article on direct object]]), and "Sue" as the //indirect object//. Other languages, including all of the languages that were written in cuneiform, do not primarily use word order to indicate who is doing what to whom. |
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| There are three nominal cases that should probably be categorized as //core// or //grammatical// in nature: the zero-marked absolutive/nominative case, the ergative case-marking postposition /*-e/, which is formally identical with the locative-terminative case-marking postposition, and the genitive case-marking postposition /*-a/. | There are three nominal cases that should probably be categorized as //core// or //grammatical// in nature: the zero-marked absolutive/nominative case, the ergative case-marking postposition /*-e/, which is formally identical with the locative-terminative case-marking postposition, and the genitive case-marking postposition /*-a/. |
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| |[[Absolutive/Nominative]] | /-Ø/ | |[[Absolutive/Nominative]] | -Ø |
| |[[Ergative]] | /-e/ | |[[Ergative]] | -e |
| |[[Genitive]] | /-a(k)/ | |[[Genitive]] | -a(k) |
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| *Thomsen, Marie-Louise. 2001. //The Sumerian Language: An Introduction to its History and Grammatical Structure//. 3d ed. with Supplementary Bibliography (pp. 364-376). Mesopotamia: Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology 10. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag. [The standard English-language reference grammar of Sumerian, first published in 1984 and minimally revised in the intervening years; nominal cases are dealt with in pp. 88-109, §§156-220.] | *Thomsen, Marie-Louise. 2001. //The Sumerian Language: An Introduction to its History and Grammatical Structure//. 3d ed. with Supplementary Bibliography (pp. 364-376). Mesopotamia: Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology 10. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag. [The standard English-language reference grammar of Sumerian, first published in 1984 and minimally revised in the intervening years; nominal cases are dealt with in pp. 88-109, §§156-220.] |
| *Wilcke, Claus. 1990. Orthographie, Grammatik und literarische Form: Beobacktungen zu der Vaseninschrift Lugalzaggesis (SAKI 152-156). In Tzvi Abusch, John Huehnergard and Piotr Steinkeller, eds., //Lingering Over Words: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran//. Harvard Semitic Studies 37. [pp. 455-504, in particular pp. 459-464 and 471-476.] | *Wilcke, Claus. 1990. Orthographie, Grammatik und literarische Form: Beobacktungen zu der Vaseninschrift Lugalzaggesis (SAKI 152-156). In Tzvi Abusch, John Huehnergard and Piotr Steinkeller, eds., //Lingering Over Words: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran//. Harvard Semitic Studies 37. [pp. 455-504, in particular pp. 459-464 and 471-476.] |
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