Neo-Assyrian Metaphors through the Telescope: Linguistic Patterns involving Body Part Constructions in the State Archives Letter Corpus

We present findings from a semi-automated linguistic analysis of the letter corpus of the online State Archives of Assyria project (SAAo), focusing on a specific grammatical configuration we dub a Body Part Construction (BPC). Based on a verb with a compound prepositional phrase involving a simple...

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Main Authors: Matthew Ong, Shai Gordin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2024-12-01
Series:Asia Anteriore Antica
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Online Access:https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/asiana/article/view/2543
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