学術国際会議派遣報告(西洋史学専攻)
文学部准教授 唐橋文が「国際アッシリア学会」に参加、
研究発表を行いました。以下、学術国際会議派遣の報告をいたします。
【会議名】 国際アッシリア学会
(Recontre Assyriologique Internationale)
【主催機関名】ローマ大学
(University of Rome)
【開催地】 ローマ(イタリア)
【発表日】 2011年7月6日(水)
【講演・研究発表のテーマ】
「変化と継続:シュメール語後接連結詞-am6/3のケース」
(Change and Continuity: The Case of Sumerian Enclitic Copula -am6/3)
【研究発表の内容】
Change and Continuity: The Case of Sumerian Enclitic Copula -am6 and -am3
論文要旨
It is fair to say that the Gudea inscriptions, in elegant style and structurally
complex, were the culmination of Sumerian narrative writing. Among their
most striking characteristics is the frequent occurrence of the third person
singular enclitic copula -am3. Starting with this rather impressionistic observation,
I will take a look at the -am6/3, mostly in the Early Dynastic (ED) and Gudea
inscriptions, some of its functions and usage from the viewpoint of change and
continuity. As two recent dissertations, one by Paul Delnero (2006) and the other
by Abraham Jagersma (2010), have offered detailed studies on the Sumerian
copula, this paper will not be exhaustive but rather limit itself to arguing for
three points. (1) The -am6/3 cliticized onto a finite verb of the main clause
may be understood on the model of the Japanese no da construction which has
two primary functions, explanatory and focus. (2) This type of construction as well
as subject-focus and object-focus are found in the ED inscriptions and continued
in the Gudea inscriptions. An appositional/parenthetical NP + -am6/3 in the matrix
clause, however, may or may not be an innovation by the Gudea scribes.
(3) A certain stylistic device making use of the -am6/3 is also detected in the ED
inscriptions and continued in the Gudea corpus.