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ON ANCIENT GRAMMARS OF SPACE GEBUNDEN

This volume presents new research by the Topoi group The Conception of Spaces in Language on
the expression of spatial relations in ancient languages. The six articles in this volume
discuss static and dynamic aspects of the spatial grammars of Ancient to Medieval Greek 
Akkadian  Hittite  and Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian  as well as field data on eight modern
languages (Arabic  Hebrew  English  German  Russian  French  Italian  and Spanish). Among the
grams discussed are spatial particles  motion verbs  case and  most prominently  spatial
prepositions. All ancient language data are fully explained in linguistic word-by-word glosses
and are therefore accessible to scholars who are not themselves experts on the respective
languages. Taken together  these contributions extend the scope of research on spatial grammar
back to the third millennium BCE.

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