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A Grammar of Old Assyrian
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A Grammar of Old Assyrian describes the language contained in a very large corpus of cuneiform tablets mainly found in Anatolia in the middle of Turkey and dating to ca 1900-1700 BC. These tablets come from the archives of a community of Assyrian merchants who conducted a long-distance trade between Assyria and Anatolia and eventually settled in Anatolia. Alongside Babylonian, Assyrian is one of the main branches of Akkadian, the Semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia (roughly present-day Iraq) in the third, second and first millennium BC, and Old Assyrian is its oldest attested stage. Old Assyrian is also one of the oldest and largest corpora of texts in any Semitic language. "Kouwenberg has managed to describe and discuss the corpus in a structural and comprehensive manner. His grammar will therefore prove to be a useful source of information for decades." - J.J. de Ridder, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 76.1-2 (2019)
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“This suffix, characterized by a high front vowel or palatal glide, occurs in many if not all Semitic languages and derives adjectives from nouns, often indicating ancestry or geographic origin”
From The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin (2021) · cites this paper as Kouwenberg 2017
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“Before pronominal suffixes, *ais retained in non-genitive forms that have i word-finally, for example libb-a-šu 'his heart (nom./acc.)', but without lengthening.”
From The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin (2021) · cites this paper as Kouwenberg 2017
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“The lack of lengthening is confirmed by the syncope in Old Assyrian forms like * šuqult-a-šina > šuqult-a-šna”
From The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin (2021) · cites this paper as Kouwenberg 2017
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- Authors
- Kouwenberg, N. J. C.
- Corresponding author
- Kouwenberg, N.J.C.
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2017-01-01
- OpenAlex
- W2790800834
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 1
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- 1.85
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- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient Near East History
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and language evolution
- Keywords
- Akkadian language, Semitic languages, cuneiform tablets, Assyrian merchants, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, grammar, historical linguistics
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