Gemination in the Akkadian verb / / N.J.C. Kouwenberg.

• Author: Kouwenberg, N. J. C.
• Place / Publishing House: Assen, The Netherlands : : Van Gorcum,, 1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Semitica Neerlandica 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (493 pages)

This book offers an account of the role of gemination as a grammatical and lexical feature of Akkadian and a comprehensive treatment of the nominal and verbal categories that are characterized by it. It argues that gemination is basically an iconic phenomenon: its presence correlates with an extensi...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• Introduction / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• Earlier approaches to the D-stem / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• Iconicity and Grammaticalization / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• The patterns parras, parris and parrās / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• The Gtn-Stem / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• The D-Stem and Transitivity / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• The D-Stems of Transitive Verbs / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• The Factitive D-Stem / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• D Tantum Verbs and Denominative D-Stems / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• The Secondary Stems of the D-Stem / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• The Pattern Purrus / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• The Development of the D-Stem / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• Gemination: From Iconic to Grammatical / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• Abbreviations and Bibliography / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• Index of Akkadian words / N.J.C. Kouwenberg
• Index of Akkadian Texts / N.J.C. Kouwenberg.