Old Babylonian grammar. / Volume one / / by Michael P. Streck.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Ancient Near East ; Volume 168.1
• VerfasserIn: Streck, Michael P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental studies. Ancient Near East ; Volume 168.1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The book contains a descriptive grammar of Old Babylonian, the best attested period and dialect of Akkadian. Volume 1 describes the orthography, phonology, nouns, pronouns and numbers of Old Babylonian.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 1 Akkadian in General
• 2 Old Babylonian
• 3 Scope and Layout of This Grammar
• 2 Orthography and Phonology
• 1 Cuneiform Writing
• 2 The Vowels
• 3 Consonants
• 4 Syllables
• 5 Word Stress
• 6 Sentence Stress
• 3 Morphology: General Remarks
• 1 Parts of Speech
• 2 Types of Morphemes
• 4 Pronouns
• 1 Generalities
• 2 Personal Pronouns
• 3 Demonstrative Pronouns
• 4 The Determinative Pronoun
• 5 Interrogative Pronouns
• 6 Indefinite Pronouns
• 5 Nouns
• 1 Inflectional Categories
• 2 Noun Patterns
• 3 Loaned Nouns
• 4 Compound Noun Phrases
• 5 Gender
• 6 Number
• 7 Case
• 8 State
• 6 Numbers
• 1 Cardinals
• 2 Ordinals
• 3 Fractions
• 4 Multiplicatives
• 5 Derivations from Numbers
• Bibliography
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Words
• Index of Texts.