Sargonic Akkadian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sargonic Akkadian write by Rebecca Hasselbach. This book was released on 2005. Sargonic Akkadian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the second edition of I.J. Gelb's Old Akkadian Writing and Grammar in 1961, which is still the standard grammar of Old Akkadian to this day, a significant number of new texts from the Old Akkadian period has been discovered and important improvements have been made regarding the analysis of Old Akkadian and Early Semitic grammar - particularly phonology - and writing. The present volume seeks to update our understanding of the syllabically written textual material from the Sargonic period (2350-2100 BCE), which contains most of our evidence for the Akkadian used at this period. It consists of a detailed investigation of the Sargonic Akkadian syllabary, phonology and morphology, with specific focus on geographical and dialectal variations that are noticeable in this text corpus, but which have not yet been examined thoroughly. The grammatical investigation further compares specific linguistic features of this period with the two later Akkadian dialects, Babylonian and Assyrian, in order to establish the position of the individual sub-groups of Sargonic Akkadian within the dialect geography of Akkadian.
Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts
Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts write by Louis C. Jonker. This book was released on 2021-05-03. Multilingualism in Ancient Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Multilingualism remains a thorny issue in many contexts, be it cultural, political, or educational. Debates and discourses on this issue in contexts of diversity (particularly in multicultural societies, but also in immigration situations) are often conducted with present-day communicational and educational needs in mind, or with political and identity agendas. This is nothing new. There are a vast number of witnesses from the ancient West-Asian and Mediterranean world attesting to the same debates in long past societies. Could an investigation into the linguistic landscapes of ancient societies shed any light on our present-day debates and discourses? This volume suggests that this is indeed the case. In fourteen chapters, written and visual sources of the ancient world are investigated and explored by scholars, specialising in those fields of study, to engage in an interdisciplinary discourse with modern-day debates about multilingualism. A final chapter – by an expert in language in education – responds critically to the contributions in the book to open avenues for further interdisciplinary engagement – together with contemporary linguists and educationists – on the matter of multilingualism.
The Semitic Languages
The Semitic Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Semitic Languages write by Stefan Weninger. This book was released on 2011-12-23. The Semitic Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.
The Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background
The Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background write by N. J. C. Kouwenberg. This book was released on 2010-06-23. The Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols)
History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols) write by Juan-Pablo Vita. This book was released on 2021-08-09. History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors.
