Tomorrow is April 1st ....... > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvand...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> The Encarta people were very unprecise about what they are going to do in >> future... >> So, this means that there remains no big encyclopedia but ours? Except >> Britannica? And what about the situation in French, Italian etc., has anyone >> an overview about that? >> Then I also ask myself in how far this evolution is to be credited mainly to >> Wikipedia, or has it been "the Internet" in general that killed the >> dead-tree-encyclopedias. I remember that in 1999 or 2000 I already did not >> buy a paper encyclopedia because of the Internet. >> > > As a young student of linguistics I was interested in Sumerian > language. In 1996 I went to the National library of Serbia and took > Britannica's 1995 edition. So, I've got the next references: > > * Arno Poebel, Grundzüge der sumerischen Grammatik (1923), partly out > of date, but still the only full grammar of Sumerian in all its > stages; > * Adam Falkenstein, Grammatik der Sprache Gudeas von Lagaš, 2 vol. > (1949–50), a very thorough grammar of the New Sumerian dialect, > * Das Sumerische (1959), a very brief but comprehensive survey of the > Sumerian language; > * Cyril J. Gadd, Sumerian Reading Book (1924), outdated but the only > grammatical tool in English; > * Samuel N. Kramer, The Sumerians (1963), provides a general > introduction to Sumerian civilization. > > Anecdote around this is that I was very confident in my linguistic > knowledge and that I thought that I am able to understand > linguistically German from 1923 (Arno Poebel's book). So, I went to > the Library of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and asked them to > make an inter-library borrowing from some German library. With a lot > of enthusiasm I've started to read it... Of course, it was a complete > disaster: I wasn't able to take any information. Copy of that book is > still somewhere in my library. > > One year later, in 1997, I tried to find something about Sumerian > language at the net. Hm. I found at least two sites with full grammars > of Sumerian dialects. So, I've finished with [traditional] > encyclopedias. > > BTW, the list of references above is from Britannica's [present] > online edition [1]. Nothing was changed since 1995 edition. I remember > well the list. > > References from the English Wikipedia's article [2] are: > > * Edzard, Dietz Otto (2003). Sumerian Grammar. Leiden: Brill. ISBN > 90-04-12608-2. (grammar treatment for the advanced student) > * Thomsen, Marie-Louise (2001) [1984]. The Sumerian Language: An > Introduction to Its History and Grammatical Structure. Copenhagen: > Akademisk Forlag. ISBN 87-500-3654-8. (Well-organized with over 800 > translated text excerpts.) > * Diakonoff, I. M. (1976). "Ancient Writing and Ancient Written > Language: Pitfalls and Peculiarities in the Study of Sumerian". > Assyriological Studies 20 (Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild > Jakobsen): 99–121. > * Rubio, Gonzalo (2007). "Sumerian Morphology." In Morphologies of > Asia and Africa, vol. 2, pp. 1327-1379. Edited by Alan S. Kaye.. > Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns. ISBN 1-57506-109-0. > * Attinger, Pascal (1993). Eléments de linguistique sumérienne: La > construction de du11/e/di. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht. ISBN > 37-2780-869-1. > * Volk, Konrad (1997). A Sumerian Reader. Rome: Pontificio Istituto > Biblico. ISBN 88-7653-610-8. (collection of Sumerian texts) > * Michalowski, Piotr, 'Sumerian as an Ergative Language', Journal of > Cuneiform Studies 32 (1980), 86-103. > > [1] - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/573229/Sumerian-language > [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_language > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > >
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