{"product_id":"the-akkadian-verb-and-its-semitic-background-9781575061931","title":"The Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this \u003ci\u003emagnum opus\u003c\/i\u003e, N. J. C. Kouwenberg presents a thoroughgoing, modern analysis of the Akkadian verbal system, taking into account all of the currently available evidence for the language during the course of the long period of its attestation. The book achieves this goal through two strategies: (1) to describe the Akkadian verbal system, as comprehensively as the data permit; and (2) to reconstruct its prehistory on the basis of internal evidence and reconstruction, comparison with cognate languages, and typological evidence. Akkadian has one of the longest documented histories of any language: data from nearly two-and-one-half millennia are available, even if the stream of data is sometimes interrupted and not always as copious as we would like. During the course of this history, numerous developments took place, illustrating how languages change over time and offering parallels for reconstruction of changes that occurred in poorly documented periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a result, this book will be of great interest, in the first place, for all students of Akkadian, both the language and the literature that is documented in that language; and in the second place, for all students of language and linguistics who are interested in the study of how languages are shaped, develop, and change during the course of a long history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Preliminaries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Objective, Structure, and Method\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Structure and Organization in the Akkadian Verbal Paradigm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: The Basic Stem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. The Paradigm of the G-Stem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The Impact of Gemination I: The Imperfective iparrVs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. The Perfective and the Imperative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. The tPerfect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. The Stative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. The Nominal Forms of the Verbal Paradigm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. The Secondary Members of the Verbal Paradigm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three: The Derived Verbal Stems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. The Derived Verbal Stems: General Features\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. The impact of gemination II: the Dstem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. The Prefix n-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. The Prefix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. The t-Infix and Its Ramifications\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Verb Forms with Reduplication\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Four: The Minor Paradigms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. The Weak Verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17. The Verbs with Gutturals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Five: Proto-Semitic from an Akkadian perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 18. The Verbal Paradigm of Proto-Semitic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041461961047,"sku":"9781575061931","price":72.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781575061931.jpg?v=1750950372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-akkadian-verb-and-its-semitic-background-9781575061931","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}