The Akkadian verb and its Semitic background / by N.J.C. Kouwenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kouwenberg, N. J. C.

Series:

Languages of the ancient Near East ; 2.

Languages of the ancient Near East ; 2

Standardized Title:

Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background (Languages of the Ancient Near East : Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Akkadian language--Verb.

Akkadian language.

Akkadian language--Grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (690 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Objective, structure, and method

Structure and organization in the Akkadian verbal paradigm

The paradigm of the G-stem The impact of gemination I : the imperfective iparrVs

The perfective and the imperative

The

perfect

The stative

The nominal forms of the verbal paradigm

The secondary members of the verbal paradigm

The derived verbal stems: general features

The impact of gemination II : the D-stem

The prefix n-

The prefix š-

The t-infix and its ramifications

Verb forms with reduplicaion

The weak verbs

The verbs with gutturals

The verbal paradigm of Proto-Semitic.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-634) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781575066240

1575066246

OCLC:

759160140