An Akkadian Handbook Helps, Paradigms, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List / Douglas B. Miller and R Mark Shipp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Douglas B. (1955- ).

Contributor:

Shipp R. Mark (1953- ).

Eisenbrauns., Publisher.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Edition:

Completely revised and expanded second edition.

Place of Publication:

Winona Lake, IN : Eisenbrauns, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Students of Akkadian will find this handy collection of basic information to be the ideal companion through their years of study. Though this handbook is not a replacement for the standard reference works, it summarizes all the basic resource materials needed for the study of Akkadian. Included are the following: miscellaneous helps, paradigms of nouns and verbs, a glossary of important proper nouns, an index of logograms, a sign list with complete sign values, and much more.What is new in this revised and expanded edition:—An expanded list of common abbreviations—A thorough bibliography of important reference works in ten categories, including websites—Part One: Additional and more thorough lists, including dialect information for conjunctions, prepositions, and particles—Part Two: Additional nominal and verbal paradigms—Part Three: Glossary expanded and updated, content thoroughly documented and cross-referenced—Part Four: Expanded list of logograms—Part Five: Complete list of graphic signs as found in Borger’s Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon, tagged by his new numbering system, and cross-referenced to the Deimel system; sign information aligned with MZL for logographic values and with MZL and Das akkadische Syllabar for syllabic values; graphic sign images now included with the list of determinatives; two new indexes—Can now be used alongside all major grammars of Akkadian—A more attractive format—All data checked against the latest published reference works

Contents:

""Introduction""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Bibliography""; ""A. Grammars""; ""B. Sign Lists""; ""C. Dictionaries""; ""D. Geographical Works""; ""E. God Names and Temples""; ""F. Akkadian Texts""; ""H. Bibliographies""; ""J. Web sites""; ""Part One: Helps""; ""Introduction""; ""1.1. The Order of Akkadian Alphabetization""; ""1.2.The Seven “Alephs” (with Proto-Semitic Equivalent)"; ""1.3. Notations for Verbs""; ""1.4. Dialect Period""; ""1.5. Numbers (parenthetical numbers are sign numbers acc. to the MZL system)""; ""1.5.1. Fractions""; ""1.5.2. Cardinal Numbers""

""1.5.3. Ordinal Numbers""1.5.4. Multiplicatives""; ""1.6. Conjunctions""; ""1.6.1. Coordinating""; ""1.6.2. Subordinating (verbs typically in subjunctive mood)""; ""1.7. Prepositions (many are nouns used as prepositions)""; ""1.8. Particles, Interjections, and Interrogatives""; ""Part Two: Paradigms""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2.1. Nominal Paradigms""; ""1.2. Verbal Paradigms""; ""A. The Sound Verb""; ""B. Initial Weak Verbs""; ""C. Middle Weak Verbs""; ""D. Final Weak Verbs""; ""E. Miscellaneous Verbs""; ""F. Verb Synopses""

""2.3. Preformatives and Afformatives""""Part Three: Glossary of Proper Nouns""; ""Introduction""; ""Glossary Abbreviations""; ""Part Four: Logograms""; ""Introduction""; ""4.1. Individual and Compound Logograms""; ""4.2. Index of Akkadian Words""; ""4.3. Index of English Glosses""; ""4.4. Index of Compound Logograms by Constituent Sign Number""; ""Part Five: Sign List""; ""Introduction""; ""5.1. Quick List of Neo-Assyrian Signs""; ""5.2. Sign Number Index""; ""5.3. Determinatives and Markers""; ""5.3.1. Determinatives/Markers by Designation""

""5.3.2. Determinatives/Markers by Sign Number""""5.4. Sign Value Index""; ""5.5. Deimel/MZL Index""; ""5.6. ASy/MZL Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781575067162

1575067161

OCLC:

922991658