Verify Citation - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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The Soviet cuneiformist Igor Diakonoff[1] (1983: p. 83) has described how archaic languages lean heavily on the use of metaphor to convey the idea of abstract concepts as literal extensions of the concrete. He defined an archaic language as one which, “on the lexical level, has no or only poorly developed means of expressing abstract ideas.”
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- ↑ I.M. Diakonoff, “Some Reflections on Numerals in Sumerian Towards a History of Mathematical Speculation,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1 (1983), pp. 83–96.
