The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and AksumRoger D. Woodard Cambridge University Press, 2008 M04 10 - 251 pages This book, derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, describes the ancient languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum, for the convenience of students and specialists working in that area. Each chapter of the work focuses on an individual language or, in some instances, a set of closely related varieties of a language. Providing a full descriptive presentation, each of these chapters examines the writing system(s), phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon of that language, and places the language within its proper linguistic and historical context. The volume brings together an international array of scholars, each a leading specialist in ancient language study. While designed primarily for scholars and students of linguistics, this work will prove invaluable to all whose studies take them into the realm of ancient language. |
Contents
Sumerian | 6 |
IndoEuropean henry m hoenigswald roger d woodard and james p t clackson 534 | 17 |
Hittite calvert watkins 551 | 44 |
Elamite | 47 |
Akkadian and Eblaite | 83 |
10 | 90 |
Urartian gernot wilhelm | 105 |
Classical Armenian james p t clackson | 124 |
Early Georgian kevin tuite 145 | 145 |
The cureiform script | 166 |
Geez Aksum | 211 |
| 243 | |
Table of contents of The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas | v |
Common terms and phrases
ˇsa accusative Achaemenid Elamite addition adjectives adverb ancient animate appear Arabic Assyrian attested base century clauses common Conjugation conjunction consonants constructions Coptic corresponding cuneiform derived determinative dialects distinction distinguished Earlier early Eblaite Egyptian example expressed feminine first forms function Ge’ez genitive given governed grammar Greek hieroglyphs historical indicate inscriptions king language Late later lexical linguistic marked marker masc masculine meaning Middle Middle Elamite morpheme morphological negative nominal noted noun object occur Old Akkadian Old Babylonian original patterns perfect period Persian phonemes phonological plural position possessive preceding predicate prefix prepositions present Press preterite pronominal pronouns referring relative represent result root script Semitic signs singular stem Studies subordinate suffix Sumerian syllable texts third University usually values verbal verbs vowel writing writing system written