Towards the formation of grammatical thinking: Babylonian descriptionof Sumerian language
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4454/abjfxb50Keywords:
History of Linguistic Science, Sumerian Language, Babylonian Grammatical TextsAbstract
This paper offers an overview of the history of the so-called Babylonian grammatical texts. We show their main textual and conceptual features. These texts testify more to competence than knowledge, but as of the earliest tablets,
such competence seems to have been based on a naive theory of grammar.
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2024-11-05
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