A Grammar of Old Assyrian

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34096-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 118, 896 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1450 g

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

A Grammar of Old Assyrian describes the language contained in a very large corpus of cuneiform tablets mainly found in Anatolia in the middle of Turkey and dating to ca 1900-1700 BC. These tablets come from the archives of a community of Assyrian merchants who conducted a long-distance trade between Assyria and Anatolia and eventually settled in Anatolia. Alongside Babylonian, Assyrian is one of the main branches of Akkadian, the Semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia (roughly present-day Iraq) in the third, second and first millennium BC, and Old Assyrian is its oldest attested stage. Old Assyrian is also one of the oldest and largest corpora of texts in any Semitic language.

"Kouwenberg has managed to describe and discuss the corpus in a structural and comprehensive manner. His grammar will therefore prove to be a useful source of information for decades." - J.J. de Ridder, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 76.1-2 (2019)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kouwenberg, N J C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Tables
Lists of Abbreviations and Conventions
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Syllabary and Spelling
Chapter 3: Phonology
Chapter 4: The Structure of Nouns
Chapter 5: The Inflection of Nouns
Chapter 6: The Syntax of Nouns
Chapter 7: The Structure, Inflection and Syntax of Adjectives
Chapter 8: Numerals
Chapter 9: Personal and Possessive Pronouns
Chapter 10: Demonstrative Pronouns and Related Adverbs
Chapter 11: Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns and Related Adverbs
Chapter 12: Multifunctional Particles
Chapter 13: Remaining Adverbs and Interjections
Chapter 14: Prepositions
Chapter 15: Enclitic Particles
Chapter 16: The Inflection of the Strong Verb
Chapter 17: The Derived Verbal Stems
Chapter 18: The Conjugation of the Weak Verbs
Chapter 19: The Functions of the Verbal Categories
Chapter 20: The Syntax of the Infinitive
Chapter 21: Voice
Chapter 22: The Syntax of the Simple Clause I
Chapter 23: The Syntax of the Simple Clause II
Chapter 24: Coordination and Disjunction
Chapter 25: Conditional Clauses
Chapter 26: Relative and Adverbial Clauses
Chapter 27: Complement Clauses
References
Indices

Über Autor(innen)

N. J. C. (Bert) Kouwenberg, Ph.D. (1997), Leiden University, is a former researcher at Leiden University. He has published several monographs and articles on Akkadian language and Comparative Semitic Linguistics.