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The course will introduce you to a fascinating world of gods and demons, heroes and kings. The readings are drawn from myths, letters, law-codes, medical incantations, and other authentic, ancient writings. The language is presented in the Roman alphabet, with an explanation of cuneiform script, and the main features of Assyrian - cognate with Babylonian - are also explained. Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features in this book from Teach Yourself, the No. 1 brand in language learning. Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features:
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- : INTRODUCTION
- : The Language’s Relatives and Development
- : What about Assyrian?
- : A note on Sumerian
- : Pronunciation
- : About the exercises
- : THE CUNEIFORM SCRIPT, TRANSLITERATION AND NORMALIZATION
- : Phonetic writing
- : Sumerographic writing and phonetic complements
- : Determinatives
- : The cuneiform script: how it evolved
- : Transliteration
- : Which sign is being used to write a syllable?
- : Normalization
- : SOME GENERAL FEATURES OF THE LANGUAGE
- : Roots and patterns
- : Position of the verb within the sentence
- : Articles
- : Pronouns as subjects of verbs
- : Sound changes
- : Syllables and division into syllables (‘syllabification’)
- : Sound change 1: vowel elision
- : Sound change 2: vowel contraction
- : Sound change 3: assimilation of consonants
- : OVERVIEW OF NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES
- : Case
- : Gender
- : Number
- : Words functioning as nouns
- : NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES, SINGULAR
- : The second millennium BC
- : The first millennium BC
- : NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES, PLURAL
- : The second millennium BC
- : Masculine nouns:
- : Masculine adjectives:
- : Feminine nouns and adjectives:
- : The first millennium BC
- : HOW TO SAY ‘OF’: THE ‘CONSTRUCT STATE’
- : Origin of ‘construct’ forms
- : Formation of the ‘construct state’ in the singular
- : Formation of the ‘construct state’ in the plural
- : Use of the singular and plural construct forms
- : ADVERBS AND LOCATIVES
- : OVERVIEW OF VERBS
- : The four verb systems
- : The sub-systems: tn and t
- : ‘Weak’ verbs
- : Verbs with ‘a’ and verbs with ‘e’
- : Tenses
- : Pronouns and gender
- : Summary
- : THE PRESENT
- : Forming the present for non-weak verbs s
- : Forming the present for weak verbs
- : THE PRETERITE
- : THE PERFECT
- : THE STATIVE
- : VERBAL FORMS FOR ALL PERSONS
- : HOW TO EXPRESS WISHES AND COMMANDS
- : SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
- : VERBS AND THE DIRECTION OF MOTION
- : PRONOUNS
- : THE DUAL
- : A FEW TRICKS OF THE TRADE
- : Sandhi spellings
- : Puns
- : Unorthodox syllable divisions
- : Special sign readings
- : Alphabetic influence
- : Rebus writings
- : Scribal errors resulting from copying
- : Scribal errors resulting from dictation
- : The structure of poetic lines
- : Structural parallelism
- : FURTHER READING
- : APPENDIX: GLOSSED CUNEIFORM READINGS
- : GLOSSARY
