Sumerian grammar / / by Dietz Otto Edzard.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East ; v. 71 = Handbuch der Orientalistik
• Author: Edzard, Dietz Otto.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 71. Bd.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 191 pages)

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 the high cultural standard of the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. Following traditional lines, the Grammar describes general characteristics, origins, linguistic environment, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and phraseology. Due attention is given to the symbiosis with Semitic Akkadian, with which Sumerian was to form a veritable linguistic area. With lucid explanations of all technical linguistic theory. Each transliteration carries its English translation.

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).