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Dictionary of language and linguistics 1148ReferencesAttinger, P. 1993. Eléments de linguistique sumérienne. Fribourg and Göttingen.Civil, M. 1973. The Sumerian writing system: some problems. Orientalia n.s. 42. 21–34.Cooper, J.S. 1973. Sumerian and Akkadian in Sumer and Akkad. Orientalia n.s. 42. 239–46.Falkenstein, A. 1949/50. Grammatik der Sprache Gudeas von Lagasš, 2 vols. Rome.——1959. Das Sumerische. (Handbuch der Orientalistik I, vol. 2.) Leiden.Gostony, C.-G. 1975. Dictionnaire d’étymologie sumérienne et grammaire comparée. Paris.Hayes, J.L. 1990. A manual of Sumerian: grammar and texts. Malibu, CA.Jacobsen, T. 1988. Sumerian grammar today. JAOS 108. 123–33.Michalowski, P. 1980. Sumerian as an ergative language. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 32. 86–103.Thomsen, M.L. 1984. The Sumerian language: in troduction to the history and grammaticalstructure. Copenhagen.SundaneseMalayo-Polynesiansuperdentalalveolarsuperiority conditionConstraint introduced by Chomsky (1973) for transformations according to which a whelementX in the configuration…Y… […Z…X…]…may not be moved to Y, if Z can bemoved to Y and Z is ‘structurally higher’ than Y (i.e. Z c-commands X). This restrictionblocks the derivation of *I know what i (=Y) who (=Z) saw t 1 (=X), as wh-movement isapplicable to who (cf. I know who i t i saw what) and who commands the d-structuralposition of what.ReferencesChomsky, N. 1973. Conditions on transformations. In S.R.Anderson and P.Kiparsky (eds),Festschrift for Morris Halle. New York. 232–86.transformational grammar