Authors: Valentin Tablan, Wim Peters, Diana Maynard

Affiliation: University of Sheffield

Title: Creating Tools for Morphological Analysis of Sumerian

Topic: Sumerian morphology

Abstract:

Sumerian is a long-extinct language documented throughout the ancient Middle
East, arguably the first language for which we have written evidence, and is a language isolate (i.e. no related languages have so far been identified). The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), based at the
University of Oxford, aims to make accessible on the web over 350 literary works
composed during the late third and early second millennia BCE. The transliterations and translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website. In this paper we describe the creation of linguistic analysis and corpus search tools for Sumerian, as part of the development of the ETCSL. This is designed to enable Sumerian scholars, students and interested laymen to analyse the texts online and electronically, and to further knowledge about the language.

Keywords: morphology, Sumerian

Languages: Sumerian