Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language spoken in Assyria and Babylonia, is one of the earliest known languages, with a surviving written history from 2500BC to 500BC. Guy Deutscher investigates its development over these two millennia. He shows that changes in the language can be linked to the emergence of complex patterns of communication required by an increasingly sophisticated civilization.
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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 at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia at the University of Leiden in Holland. His book, The Unfolding of Language, was published in 2005 to both critical and popular acclaim.
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This book is both a study in the history of one particular area of one particular language, and a general investigation of the motivation for language change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
proving verbs, conjunction kima, dispossess the field, whole independent clause, time iconicity, finite complementation, quotative construction, asyndetic parataxis, proleptic constructions, general complementizer, infinitive complementation, embedded indirect questions, finite complements, factive interpretation, factive meaning, manipulative verbs, quotative marker, proleptic structures, nominal strategy, nominal strategies, bridging context, speech verbs, concealed questions, quotative particles, adverbial subordinators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Babylonian, Old Akkadian, Middle Babylonian, Functional Domain of Complementation, The Development of Complementation, Adaptive Process, The Emergence of Finite Complements, Preliminary Chapters, Verbs of Knowledge, The Gram, Iribum Ubarum, Near East, North-West Semitic, Old Assyrian Browse Sample Pages:
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This book is both a study in the history of one particular area of one particular language, and a general investigation of the motivation for language change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
proving verbs, conjunction kima, dispossess the field, whole independent clause, time iconicity, finite complementation, quotative construction, asyndetic parataxis, proleptic constructions, general complementizer, infinitive complementation, embedded indirect questions, finite complements, factive interpretation, factive meaning, manipulative verbs, quotative marker, proleptic structures, nominal strategy, nominal strategies, bridging context, speech verbs, concealed questions, quotative particles, adverbial subordinators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Babylonian, Old Akkadian, Middle Babylonian, Functional Domain of Complementation, The Development of Complementation, Adaptive Process, The Emergence of Finite Complements, Preliminary Chapters, Verbs of Knowledge, The Gram, Iribum Ubarum, Near East, North-West Semitic, Old Assyrian Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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