RT Article
T1 Native-speaker Intuitions about Genitive Constructions in Sumerian
JF Altorientalische Forschungen
VO 46
IS 2
SP 301
OP 312
A1 Zólyomi, Gábor
LA German
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1801475911
AB This paper examines a remarkable variation in the new manuscript of En-metena 1 (RIME 1.9.5.1) kept in the Sulaymaniyah Museum in Iraq: a left-dislocated genitive construction is replaced by a simple genitive construction. Also, the manuscript shortens the text in a number of places. The paper reviews other known examples of text abridgements in royal inscriptions of the 3 rd millennium BC and suggests that the composers of these inscriptions used similar techniques to manipulate the texts according to their function and use as the scribes who wrote the Assyrian royal inscriptions of the 1 st millennium. The new manuscript provides a rare opportunity to observe a scribe who adapts an already existing text using his linguistic competence.
K1 En-metena
K1 royal inscriptions
K1 left-dislocated possessor
K1 Sumerian
DO 10.1515/aofo-2019-0019