Canaanite in the Amarna tablets : a linguistic analysis of the mixed dialect used by scribes from Canaan /

This four-volume reference work deals with the language of the Amarna letters written by scribes who had adopted a peculiar dialect mixture of Accadian and West Semitic syntax. In addition to the texts from Canaan, a few from Alashia are included along with the texts from Kamed el-Loz and Taanach. E...

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Main Author: Rainey, Anson F., 1930-2011.

Format: eBook

Language: English
Semitic

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 25.
Handbook of Oriental Studies: Ancient Near East Online, ISBN: 9789004307988.

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Call Number: PJ3887 .R35 1996

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • ORTHOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS
  • PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES
  • INDEPENDENT PRONOUNS
  • SUFFIX PRONOUNS
  • DEICTIC PRONOUNS
  • INTERROGATIVE AND INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
  • NOUN MORPHOSYNTAX
  • NUMERALS AND NUMERICAL NOUNS
  • Preliminary material
  • IN SEARCH OF THE CANAANITE VERB
  • THE AKKADIAN BASE LANGUAGE
  • PREFIX CONJUGATION - PERSON AND NUMBER
  • PREFIX CONJUGATION - G AND Gp STEMS
  • PREFIX CONJUGATION - Gt and Gtn STEMS
  • PREFIX CONJUGATION - N STEM
  • PREFIX CONJUGATION - D, Dt, Dp
  • PREFIX CONJUGATION - Š AND H
  • PREFIX CONJUGATION - MOODS AND TENSES
  • WEST SEMITIC MODES AND TENSES
  • THE IMPERATIVE
  • THE SUFFIX CONJUGATION - MORPHOLOGY
  • SUFFIX CONJUGATION - SPECIAL HYBRIDS
  • SUFFIX CONJUGATION - SYNTAX
  • THE INFINITIVE - MORPHOLOGY
  • THE INFINITIVE - MORPHOSYNTAX
  • THE INFINITIVE - MORPHOSYNTAX (CONT.)
  • Preliminary material
  • ADVERBIAL MORPHEMES
  • PREPOSITIONS AND PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
  • CONJUNCTIONS
  • LOCATIVE ADVERBS
  • TEMPORAL ADVERBS
  • MODAL ADVERBS
  • INTRODUCTORY ADVERBS
  • CONDITIONAL PARTICLES
  • THE OPTATIVE PARTICLE
  • NEGATIVE PARTICLES
  • ENCLITIC PARTICLES
  • THE INTERJECTION
  • TOPIC AND COMMENT
  • Preliminary material
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED.