Johnson 2004 - CDLI - UCLA

The example in line 50 is quite badly broken and adds nothing of substance (and my
partial translation of the line is pure supposition on the basis the preceding example), but
it should be noted that, like the previous example, the temporal relation between the lines
is unclear and deserves further investigation.
In fact, the number of examples of ˙amt¬u reduplication of BNBV inal predicates can be
counted on precisely one hand (five exemplars) and some members of the group are quite
anomalous: a 2-√su 3 “to sail; to spread” and the two occurrences of gu 2-√gud “to pile up”
do not seem to fit into the semantic field of the other BNBV inal predicates presumably
because the nominal component of these examples is alienable rather than inalienable
despite the existence of an homophonous inalienable noun in each case. Only two
examples show reduplication of predicates that seem, at least upon initial inspection, to
be BNBV inal predicates: zu 2-√sud 2 “to bite, to gnaw” and igi-√kar 2 “to examine.”
(27) The Exploits of Ninurta [1.6.2], ll. 348-352 (Karahashi 2000, 78)
348. d nin.urta dumu d en.lil 2.la 2.ke 4
gal.bi i 3.œa 2.œa 2
123
Ninurta, the son of Enlil, wanted to do
something big,
349. gu.ru.um na 4 kur.ra mi.ni.in.ak As for the pile of stones that had been
350. dungu diri.ga.gin 7
accumulated in the mountains,
Because they were spread all over like
a 2 bi 2.in.su 3.su 3.ud drifting clouds,
351. bad 3 ma˙.gin 7 kalam.ma igi.ba Blocking the view of the land as if they
bi 2.in.tab.≠ba± were a huge wall,