Product Description: The present volume is based on a selection of papers delivered at the ""Oslo-Austin Workshop in Semitic Linguistics"" on May 23 and 24, 2013. The topics covered include ""Reanalysis and new roots: an Akkadian perspective"" (John Huehnergard), ""The morphosyntax of nominal antecedents in Semitic, and an innovation in Arabic"" (Na'ama Pat-El), ""Transitivity and the binyanim"" (Oyvind Bjoru), ""The b-imperfect once again: typological and diachronic perspectives"" (Jan Retsö), ""The main line of a biblical Hebrew narrative and what to do with two perfective grams"" (Bo Isaksson), ""Finiteness as manifested by grounding and deixis: Amharic (Semitic) and Sidaama (Cushitic)"" (Kjell Magne Yri), ""Hebrew and Hebrew-Yiddish terms and expressions in contemporary German: some (socio-)linguistic observations"" (Lutz Edzard), and ""Muhamed Hevai Uskufi Bosnevi's 1631 work Makbul-i 'arif from a Turcological perspective: the state of the art"" (Silje Susanne Alvestad)...read more

Product Description: This work consists of two volumes, on historiography in the Ancient Near East and on the use of seals in the Ancient Near East. The discussions and illustrations provide rare insight into facets of Mesopotamian civilization. See the Table of Contents for a list of the many and varied essays in this two-volume set...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the third edition of A Grammar of Akkadian, changes have been made in the section on the nom­i­n­al morpheme -ån (§20.2) and the sections on the meaning of the D stem (§24.3) and the Gt stem (§33.1(b)); these revisions reflect recent scholarship in Akkadian grammarOther changes include minor revisions in wording in the presentation of the grammar in a few other sections; a number of new notes to some of the readings; additions to the glosses of a small number of words in the lesson vocabularies (and the Glossary and English Akkadian word list); and updates of the resources available for the study of Akkadian, and of the bibliography...read more

Product Description: Book by Huehnergard, John

Product Description: Dissertation by John Huehnergard. Contains Abbreviations, Introduction, Orthography, Syllabic Writing, and much, much more