Notes on the construction of meaning in an Old Babylonian bilingual proverb about exotic animals
Universität Wien
The paper studies an unusual bilingual proverb dealing with rare animals from exotic lands. It aims to demonstrate that the use of a string of very rare words in the proverb is not merely an aesthetic peculiarity, but in fact drove the development of the proverb.
English
2021-04-27
CC BY 4.0 International
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Proverbs, REPAC
ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- Ancient Oriental studies (602056)