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In this magnum opus, N. J. C. Kouwenberg presents a thoroughgoing, modern analysis of the Akkadian verbal system, taking into account all of the currently available evidence for the language during the course of the long period of its attestation. The book achieves this goal through two strategies: (1) to describe the Akkadian verbal system, as comprehensively as the data permit; and (2) to reconstruct its prehistory on the basis of internal evidence and reconstruction, comparison with cognate languages, and typological evidence. Akkadian has one of the longest documented histories of any language: data from nearly two-and-one-half millennia are available, even if the stream of data is sometimes interrupted and not always as copious as we would like. During the course of this history, numerous developments took place, illustrating how languages change over time and offering parallels for reconstruction of changes that occurred in poorly documented periods. As a result, this book will be of great interest, in the first place, for all students of Akkadian, both the language and the literature that is documented in that language; and in the second place, for all students of language and linguistics who are interested in the study of how languages are shaped, develop, and change during the course of a long history.

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Author:   N. J. C. Kouwenberg
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Eisenbrauns
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.383kg
ISBN:  

9781575061931

ISBN 10:   1575061937
Pages:   688
Publication Date:   30 June 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part One: Preliminaries Chapter 1. Objective, Structure, and Method Chapter 2. Structure and Organization in the Akkadian Verbal Paradigm Part Two: The Basic Stem Chapter 3. The Paradigm of the G-Stem Chapter 4. The Impact of Gemination I: The Imperfective iparrVs Chapter 5. The Perfective and the Imperative Chapter 6. The tPerfect Chapter 7. The Stative Chapter 8. The Nominal Forms of the Verbal Paradigm Chapter 9. The Secondary Members of the Verbal Paradigm Part Three: The Derived Verbal Stems Chapter 10. The Derived Verbal Stems: General Features Chapter 11. The impact of gemination II: the Dstem Chapter 12. The Prefix n- Chapter 13. The Prefix Chapter 14. The t-Infix and Its Ramifications Chapter 15. Verb Forms with Reduplication Part Four: The Minor Paradigms Chapter 16. The Weak Verbs Chapter 17. The Verbs with Gutturals Part Five: Proto-Semitic from an Akkadian perspective Chapter 18. The Verbal Paradigm of Proto-Semitic

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