Sumerian Grammar

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12608-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

It seems safe to say that this Sumerian Grammar by Professor D.O. Edzard will become the new classic reference in the field. It is an up-to-date, reliable guide to the language of the Sumerians, the inventors of cuneiform writing in the late 4th millennium B.C., and thus essential contributors to the high cultural standard of the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond.
Following traditional lines, the Grammar describes general characteristics, origins, linguistic environment, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and phraseology.
Due attention is given to the symbiosis with Semitic Akkadian, with which Sumerian was to form a veritable linguistic area.
With lucid explanations of all technical linguistic theory. Each transliteration carries its English translation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edzard, Dietz Otto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literaturen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas

Über Autor(innen)

Dietz Otto Edzard, Ph.D. (1955) in Assyriology, University of Heidelberg, is Emeritus Professor of Assyriology at Munich University. He published extensively on Ancient Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Akkadian) history, literature, religion, linguistics, and history of law including Gilgamesh und Huwawa (1993) and Gudea and His Dynasty (1997).