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 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Asia Anteriore Antica |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.fupress.net/index.php/asiana/article/view/2543 |
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