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vijayjohn wrote:Okay, I completed exercise #2 at last although I haven't finished checking my answers yet. I have absolutely no prior familiarity with Sumerian at all, so I'm pretty confused by a lot of things. For one thing, I was trying to follow the style of the glosses in the text, but the answer key doesn't use the same style.
It also makes the seemingly unfounded assumption that everything must have either an ergative suffix or an absolutive one even though this is not borne out in the glosses even in the chapter itself.
Eril wrote:They are in 3.3, though.
vijayjohn wrote:Eril wrote:They are in 3.3, though.
I just did this exercise and completely forgot that this was the exercise you specifically mentioned! I thought it was in the next chapter or something for some reason.
I don't get the locative cases at all.
Eril wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Eril wrote:They are in 3.3, though.
I just did this exercise and completely forgot that this was the exercise you specifically mentioned! I thought it was in the next chapter or something for some reason.
I don't get the locative cases at all.
You mean, that there are several locative cases?
vijayjohn wrote:Eril wrote:vijayjohn wrote:Eril wrote:They are in 3.3, though.
I just did this exercise and completely forgot that this was the exercise you specifically mentioned! I thought it was in the next chapter or something for some reason.
I don't get the locative cases at all.
You mean, that there are several locative cases?
No, I mean how to interpret them (in particular, how to translate the case markers into English). I thought they all just meant 'in' or something and don't know how to tell they mean something else.
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