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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Miller, Douglas B.,; Shipp, R. Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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