Sumerian grammar /

Sumerian grammar / / by Dietz Otto Edzard.

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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 th...

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Superior document:Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East ; v. 71 = Handbuch der Orientalistik
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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)
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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).

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