Table of Contents

Sumerian Grammar

General topics

Typological structure

Orthography

Phonology

Transliteration and the diacritics

How did Sumerian die?

Nouns, nominal features and postpositions

Nouns

Pronouns

Gender

Number

Case

Numerals, adjectives, adverbs and particles

Numerals

Adjectives

Adverbs

Particles

Verbal structure and inflection

The 'Maru -e'

Prefix Chain

Dimensional infixes

Conjugational prefixes

Modal prefixes

Imperative

"Plural" Verbs

Non-finite verbs, subordination and relativization

Non-finite verbal constructions

subordination

relativization

Topic and focus

Topic marking

Focus marking

Other pragmatic phenomena