On Ancient Grammars of Space : Linguistic Research on the Expression of Spatial Relations and Motion in Ancient Languages.

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Main Author: Kutscher, Silvia.
Other Authors: Werning, Daniel A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Topoi - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi - Berliner Studien der Alten Welt Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Introduction
  • Einleitung
  • Glossing abbreviations
  • Hittite / Hethitisch
  • Räumlichkeit in Zentralanatolien. Eine hethitische „Grammar of Space"
  • Greek / Griechisch
  • On the encoding of ALLATIVE and RECIPIENT in the Greek diachrony
  • 'Behind' and 'in front' in Ancient Greek. A case study in orientation asymmetry
  • Fortbewegung ohne Bewegungsverben im Griechischen
  • Akkadian / Akkadisch
  • Topologische und projektive Relationen in akkadischen Keilschrifttexten
  • Egyptian et aliae / Ägyptisch et aliae
  • The semantic space of static spatial prepositions in Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian. A comparison with nine Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages based on the Topological Relations Picture Series
  • E-mail addresses of the authors.