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Author:   Guy Deutscher (Research Fellow in Historical Linguistics, Research Fellow in Historical Linguistics, St John's College, Cambridge)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.20cm
Weight:   0.483kg
ISBN:  

9780198299882

ISBN 10:   0198299885
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   09 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Preliminary Chapters Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: What is Sentential Complementation? Chapter 3: Akkadian Part II: Structural History: The emergence of complementizers and quotatives Chapter 4: The Emergence of Finite Complements Chapter 5: The Grammaticalization of the Quotative Construction Part III: Functional History: The changes in the functional domain of complementation from 2500BC to 500BC Chapter 6: The Functional Domain of Complementation in Babylonian Chapter 7: Verbs of Knowledge, Perception, and Others Chapter 8: Manipulation and Modality Chapter 9: The WH-Functional Domain, Direct and Indirect Questions Part IV: The Development of Complementation as an Adaptive Process Chapter 10: Functional Parallels for the Babylonian Development Chapter 11: The Development of Complementation as an Adaptive Process

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A pleasant surprise. It is arguably the most successful attempt at combining linguistics and Assyriology, and the work combines clarity of argumentation with new thinking about Akkadian grammar. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Excellent and thoroughly enjoyable book. It is a highly original and even a pioneering work. Bibliotheca Orientalis

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Guy Deutscher is a Research Fellow in Historical Linguistics at St John's College, University of Cambridge.

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