Old Babylonian grammar

Akkadian, written in the cuneiform script, is the most important language of the Ancient Near East and one of the most important members of the Semitic language family. Old Babylonian is the best attested period and dialect of Akkadian. Old Babylonian was written all over Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, Syria) and some neigboring regions during the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE. The book describes the language of middle Old Babylonian from the kings Sin-muballit to Samsu-iluna. Volume 1 extensively describes the orthography, phonology, nouns, pronouns and numbers of Old Babylonian.

Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 Akkadian in General 2 Old Babylonian 3 Scope and Layout of This Grammar 2 Orthography and Phonology 1 Cuneiform Writing 2 The Vowels 3 Consonants 4 Syllables 5 Word Stress 6 Sentence Stress 3 Morphology: General Remarks 1 Parts of Speech 2 Types of Morphemes 4 Pronouns 1 Generalities 2 Personal Pronouns 3 Demonstrative Pronouns 4 The Determinative Pronoun 5 Interrogative Pronouns 6 Indefinite Pronouns 5 Nouns 1 Inflectional Categories 2 Noun Patterns 3 Loaned Nouns 4 Compound Noun Phrases 5 Gender 6 Number 7 Case 8 State 6 Numbers 1 Cardinals 2 Ordinals 3 Fractions 4 Multiplicatives 5 Derivations from Numbers Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Words Index of Texts