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Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic
Rethinking the Origins
Av María Victoria Almansa-Villatoro, Silvia Štubňová Nigrelli
Inbunden, 2023
1315 kr
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By challenging assumptions regarding the proximity between Egyptian and Semitic Languages, Ancient Egyptian and Afroasiatic provides a fresh approach to the relationships and similarities between Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Afroasiatic languages. This in-depth analysis includes a re-examination …
Grammar of the Hittite Language
Part 1: Reference Grammar
Av Harry A. Hoffner Jr., H. Craig Melchert
2008
1046 kr
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Hoffner and Melchert’s long-awaited work is sure to become both the standard reference grammar and the main teaching tool for the Hittite language. The first volume includes a thorough description of Hittite grammar, grounded in an abundance of textual examples. Moreover, the authors take into …
Akkadian Verb and Its Semitic Background
Inbunden, 2010
1033 kr
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In this magnum opus, 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: …
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Epistemic Modality in Old Babylonian
Inbunden, 2012
533 kr
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The system that any language uses to express evaluations, judgments, estimations, and non-real situations tends to be complicated and poorly understood, and this has certainly been the case, historically, for Akkadian. In this study, Nathan Wasserman presents the fruit of 15 years of study of the …
Conditional Structures in Mesopotamian Old Babylonian
Av Eran Cohen
Inbunden, 2012
490 kr
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This volume examines conditional structures in Old Babylonian from a linguistic point of view, drawing on a corpus of letters, law collections, and omens. All of the conditional patterns are provided with a syntactic characterization, so that each conditional sequence is differentiated from all …
Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Vol. I: Unis
Inbunden, 2017
812 kr
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A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts is designed as a six-volume study of the earliest comprehensive corpus of ancient Egyptian texts, inscribed in the pyramids of five pharaohs of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2325–2150 BC) and several of their queens. The first volume, devoted to the earliest …
Classical Ethiopic
A Grammar of Gəˁəz
Av Josef Tropper, Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Inbunden, 2021
711 kr
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Upon its publication in 2002, Josef Tropper’s Altäthiopisch: Grammatik des Gəˁəz mit Übungstexten und Glossar was quickly recognized as the best modern grammar of Classical Ethiopic in any language. Now Eisenbrauns makes Tropper’s grammar available for the first time in English, in this revised and …
Glossary of Old Syrian
Volume 1: ʔ – ḳ
Inbunden, 2019
490 kr
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A Glossary of Old Syrian: ʔ – ḳ is the first of two volumes aimed at the completion of a lexicographical index of the Old Syrian linguistical continuum. This glossary gives a picture, or map, of the Old Syrian lexicon as it can be extracted and reconstructed from the available sources, from the …
Middle Egyptian
Inbunden, 2018
1033 kr
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This grammar provides a comprehensive overview of Middle Egyptian and illustrates its grammatical features with extensive examples from various sources. Exercises at the end of each chapter, along with a sign list and a hieroglyphic word list, provide the reader with the means to apply and practice …
Motion, Voice, and Mood in the Semitic Verb
Inbunden, 2023
1013 kr
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This book explores the relationship between the so-called ventive morpheme in Akkadian (-am) and the related suffixes -n and -a in other Semitic languages, including Amarna Canaanite, Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Arabic. Using formal reconstructions of the various morphemes and a functional analysis of …
Glossary of Old Syrian
Volume 2: l – z
Inbunden, 2024
1194 kr
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A Glossary of Old Syrian: l–z is the second of two volumes that aim to map the lexicon of Old Syrian as it can be extracted and reconstructed from the (Old Akkadian) Eblaite through the Old and Middle Babylonian corpora.Referring to a continuum of dialects spoken in the Syrian-Levantine and …
Grammar of the Hittite Language
Part 1: Reference Grammar
Av Harry A. Hoffner Jr., H. Craig Melchert
Inbunden, 2024
1013 kr
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Since its publication in 2008, A Grammar of the Hittite Language has been the definitive Hittite reference and teaching tool. This new edition brings Hoffner and Melchert’s essential work up to date, incorporating the dramatic progress achieved in the field over the past fifteen years.Heavily …
Grammar of the Hittite Language
Part 2: Tutorial
Av Harry A. Hoffner Jr., H. Craig Melchert
Häftad, 2024
359 kr
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Designed to accompany A Grammar of the Hittite Language, Part 1: Reference Grammar, this tutorial guides language learners through a series of graded lessons with illustrative sentences for translation drawn from actual Hittite texts. The tutorial is keyed to the reference grammar and provides …
Syria, Mesopotamia, and the Comparative Study of Semitic Languages
Proceedings of the 7th and 8th Meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics
Av Tawny L. Holm, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
Inbunden, 2026
1315 kr
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This volume offers a wealth of perspectives on comparative Semitic linguistics emerging from the seventh and eighth meetings of the International Association for Comparative Semitics (IACS): the Madrid symposium (2016) was devoted to the role of Akkadian in the study of Comparative Semitics, and …
Mood and Modality in Hurrian
Inbunden, 2015
651 kr
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In a long dead language isolate such as Hurrian, grammatical studies are replete with difficulties. The paucity of material and our inability to compare it to modern, well-documented languages typically results in more questions than answers. Many posited answers to these questions lead inevitably …
Verb in the Amarna Letters from Canaan
Inbunden, 2016
761 kr
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The Amarna letters from Canaan offer us a unique glimpse of the historical and linguistic panorama of the Levant in the middle of the fourteenth century BCE. Their evidence regarding verbs is crucial for the historical and comparative study of the Semitic languages. Proper evaluation of this …
