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Sumerian grammar /

It seems safe to say that this Sumerian Grammar by Professor D.O. Edzard will become the new classic reference in the field. It is an up-to-date, reliable guide to the language of the Sumerians, the inventors of cuneiform writing in the late 4th millennium B.C., and thus essential contributors to th...

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Main Author: Edzard, Dietz Otto.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 71.
Handbook of Oriental Studies: Ancient Near East Online, ISBN: 9789004307988.

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Sumerian language > Grammar.

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Call Number: PJ4013 .E38 2003eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • THE SUMERIAN LANGUAGE
  • HOW WE READ SUMERIAN
  • MINIMALIA OF SUMERIAN PHONOLOGY AND SYLLABIC STRUCTURE
  • THE \'WORD\' IN SUMERIAN, PARTS OF SPEECH
  • SUBSTANTIVES
  • ADJECTIVES
  • DETERMINATION, SPECIFICATION: DEMONSTRATIVE PARTICLES
  • RESUMING THE SEQUENCE OF PARTICLES FOR POSSESSION, NUMBER AND CASE
  • PRONOUNS
  • NUMERALS
  • ADVERBS
  • THE VERB
  • POST-NOMINAL AND/OR POST-VERBAL PARTICLES OTHER THAN CASE PARTICLES (5.4)
  • CONJUNCTIONS AND SUBJUNCTIONS
  • EXCLAMATIONS
  • EMESAL
  • THE SUMERO-AKKADIAN LINGUISTIC AREA
  • SUMMARY-AND WHAT IS STILL MISSING?
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES (HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK).