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Tigay’s proposed method for examining the transmission process behind the Gilgamesh Epic is also important to our present invest ...

methodologies of Tigay and Cogan. Young weighs linguistic variants as more significant than orthographic variants, but less sign ...

CHAPTER 2: METHOD Creating a Methodology In formulating our own approach to the comparative analysis of ancient texts we will ad ...

more sources is considered. Every variant that is encountered in the following analysis will be analysed according to the follow ...

meaning of the text is taken as the default reading. In general this will mean that a choice between the reading of an orthograp ...

at the word-level of the text and in Polak’s language occupy whole or multiple syntactic slots. Stylistic variants “do little to ...

tion of vowels, elision of stem markers in verbs (such as the representation of the digraph )y, or affixed y of the hiph‘il stem ...

we are surely correct to see this as a minor orthographic variation that simply reflects the tendency of some scribes to represe ...

Some of the orthographic phenomena we encounter stem from archaic forms which else- where have fallen out of use.^91 It is certa ...

In other instances we find possible Sumerian case endings preserved that are lacking in parallel copies.^94 Any of these types o ...

include: an extra conjunction, object marker, interrogative and locative h, or definite arti- cle; the exchange of prefixed prep ...

The final sub-category of stylistic variation relates to differences in the word order of parallel manuscripts. It reflects the ...

languages we are likely to encounter in our examination, which means that the quanta we decide upon should be capable of definin ...

Quantifying the texts that we are to examine into units that are defined as semogenic thus allows us to be more specific as to h ...

calculation based on semantic content. It is certainly true that a terminology which is based on semantic quantification does le ...

that is abstracted from the lexicogrammar, by the interaction of the lexicogrammar and the interpreter. So, given the implicit p ...

parallel copies using strings of syllabic signs. Were we to quantify this parallel text using morphological units, we would find ...

tical, excepting their respective orthography. Such a system must necessarily quantify a text based on quantified semantic value ...

cally ‘packaged’ with nouns to comprise one semogenic ‘packet.’ For example, the plural noun Mysws would be read as containing o ...

CHAPTER 3: INTRODUCTION TO THE CUNEIFORM TEXTS Defining Parallel Texts It can be considered a maxim of the present study that sc ...