Syntactic Change in Akkadian - The Evolution of Sentential Complementation

Zusatztext Excellent and thoroughly enjoyable book. It is a highly original and even a pioneering work. Informationen zum Autor Guy Deutscher is a Research Fellow in Historical Linguistics at St John's College, University of Cambridge. Klappentext 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. His book will interest specialists and general linguists. It offers theformer a significant contribution towards a badly needed historical grammar of Akkadian. Its value for the latter lies not only in the central theoretical questions it addresses on how and why languages change, but in the window it opens to a language that, despite its enormous historical importance,has rarely been presented to non-specialists. The fact that the book links linguistic to social change will also make it of interest to archaeologists and historians of the ancient Near East. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Deutscher, Deutscher Guy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2000
• EAN: 9780198299882
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829988-2
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Historical and comparative linguistics, Assyro-Babylonian (Akkadian) languages