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Syntactic change in Akkadian : the evolution of sentential complementation / Guy Deutscher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deutscher, Guy, author.
- Series:
- Oxford linguistics.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford linguistics
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Akkadian language--Grammar, Historical.
- Akkadian language.
- Akkadian language--Complement.
- Akkadian language--Syntax.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 204 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Akkadian is one of the earliest attested languages and the oldest recorded Semitic language. In this book, Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of subordinate structures in the Babylonian dialect of Akkadian.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Preliminary chapters
- pt. 2. Structural history : the emergence of complementizers and quotatives
- pt. 3. Functional history : the changes in the functional domain of complementation from 2500 BC to 500 BC
- pt. 4. The development of complementation as an adaptive process.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-01967-3
- 1-281-34130-4
- 0-19-154483-3
- OCLC:
- 352917905
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