Complete Babylonian

Dr Martin Worthington is Al Maktoum Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He specialises in Babylonian and Assyrian grammar, literature and medicine. In 2009 he received the Greenfield Prize from the American Oriental Society, and in 2011 he was jointly awarded the Sir George Staunton Prize by the Royal Asiatic Society. He also provided the Babylonian translations in the recent Marvel film, Eternals.

• : 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

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