Language in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Vol. 1, Part 2

In July 2007, the 53rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (the annual meeting of the International Association of Assyriologists) was held in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. In Moscow, several hundred Assyriologists enjoyed the hospitality of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Dozens of papers on the topic “Language in the Ancient Near East,” were delivered at the University. More than 50 of those papers are published in this 2-volume set. Pt. 1. Sumerian / C. Wilcke -- Prä-akkadische / W. Sommerfeld -- Notes On The Plural Bases In Sumerian / W. Mori -- Sumerian, A Uralic Language / S. Parpola -- Proleptic Pronouns In Middle Hittite / A. Sideltsev -- Das Problem Der Phonetischen Interpretation Der Anlautenden Scriptio Plena In Keilschriftluwischen / Zs. Simon -- Die Wurzelsstruktur Im Semitischen / E. Vernet I Pons -- Early Lexical Lists Revisited / K. Wagensonner -- Similes In The Gilgamesh Epic / B.r. Foster -- The Sign Of The Flood And He Language Of Signs In Baylonian Omen Literature / A.r. George -- You Recite The Incantation I Am A Pure Man / C. Jean -- Le Langage Figuré Dans Les Lettres Paléo-assyriens / C. Michel -- Structural Analysis Of Enmerkara And The Lord Of Arata / C. Mittermayer -- Ištar, Goddess Of War, Pacifier Of Kings / I. Zsolnay -- Les Véhicules Terrestres Dans Les Textes De Mari I / I. Arkhipov -- Le Cochon Dans Les Listes Lexicales / B. Lion, C. Michel -- The Qersu In Neo-assyrian Cultic Setting / N. May -- Über Spiegel, Bronze Ausdilmun In Altsumerischer Zeit / R. Oreschko -- Périphérique Ou Local? / H. Reculeau. Pt. 2. Sumerian Compound Verbs / M. Civil -- The Ssumerian Verbal Prefixes Imm-ma And Im-mi / P. Delnero -- Argument Structure Of Sumerian Verbs Ii / F. Karahashi -- The Case Of Sumerian Cases / G. Zólyomi -- Amorite Names ... / V. Golinets -- The Recycling Of The T -- Infix In Pre-historuic Akkadian / N.j.c. Kouwenberg -- Innovations In The Neo-babylonian Lexicon / M.p. Streck -- I-ba-aš-šu-u Vs. I-ba-aš-šu From Old To Neo-babylonian / M. Worthington -- Conditional Structures In The Old Babylonian Omens / E. Cohen -- Oblique Core Arguments In Akkadian / C.w. Hess -- Morphosyntactic Structure Of The Premises In The Neo-babylonian Laws / G.h. Kaplan -- Akkadian Sentences About The Present Time / S. Loesov -- The Enclytic Particle -mi ... / N. Wasserman -- Akkadian Written By Egyptian Scribes ... / Z. Cchavi-rainey -- The Second Glosses In The Lexical Lists From Emar / Y. Cohen -- Was Akkadian Spoken In Emar? / J. Ikeda -- The Hybrid Language Written By Canaanite Scribes ... / A.f. Rainey -- Peripheral Akkadian Dialects, Or, Akkadography Of Local Languages? / E. Von Dassow -- Zu Den Sogenannten Wurzelerweiterungen Des Hurritischen / M. Giogieri -- The Alignement Of Hattian / P.m. Goedgebuure -- New Observations On Urartian Vocabulary / N.v. Haroutyounyan -- Hurritisch Und Syntaktische Ergativität / J. Hazenbos -- On The Genesis Of The Category Of Aspect/tense In Hurro-urartian, Sumerian And Elamite / M. Khachikyan -- Les Deux Stèles De Rusa Iii... / M. Salvini -- Zum Namen Der Göttin Kataḫsipuri ... / O. Soysal -- On The Sounds Rendered By The S-, š- And ṣ/z- Series In Elamite / J. Tavernier -- Purḫu : Assembly As A Political Institution In Enūma Eliš / V. Bartash -- On The Early History Of Melammu / V.v. Emelianov -- The Assumed Human Origin Of Divine Dumuzi / J. Klein -- Foreign Languages And Hegemony / M.b. Dick -- Cognate Patterns In Ancient Hebrew Poetry / B.a. Levine -- Where Angels Fearlessly Tread : Mari Insights On Genesis 19 / J.m. Sasson -- The Old Babylonian Text Corpus Project / L. Pecha, F. Rahman -- The Project Duplicazione E Rinascita : Cataloguing Of Objects And Texts In Cuneiform Preserved In The Iraq Museum, Baghdad / S. Tikka, S. Viaggio. Edited By L. Kogan ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References. English, French, And German. Language in the Ancient Near East The Correspondence between Verbal and Nominal Morphology in Sumerian: M. Civil: Sumerian Compound Verbs: Class II P. Delnero: The Sumerian Verbal Prefixes im-ma- and im-mi- F. Karahashi: Argument Structure of Sumerian Verbs II: The Transitive-Ditransitive Alternation G. Zólyomi: The Case of Sumerian Cases Akkadian: Diachrony and Contact V. Golinets: Amorite Names Written with the Sign Ú and the Issue of the Suffixed Third Person Masculine Singular Pronoun in Amorite N. J. C. Kouwenberg: The Recycling of the T-infix in Prehistoric Akkadian: A Case of Exaptation M. P. Streck: Innovations in the Neo-Babylonian Lexicon M. Worthington: i-ba-aš-šu-ú vs. i-ba-aš-šu from Old to Neo-Babylonian Morphosyntax and Text Structure in Akkadian: E. Cohen: Conditional Structures in the Old Babylonian Omens C. W. Hess: Oblique Core Arguments in Akkadian G. H. Kaplan: Morphosyntactic Structure of the Premises in the Neo-Babylonian Laws S. Loesov: Akkadian Sentences about the Present Time (II/2) N. Wasserman: The Enclytic Particle -mi within the Framework of Old Babylonian Epistemic Modality— A New Understanding Peripheral Akkadian: Z. Cochavi-Rainey: Akkadian Written by Egyptian Scribes in the 14th and 13th Centuries BCE Y. Cohen: The “Second Glosses” in the Lexical Lists from Emar: West Semitic or Akkadian? J. Ikeda: Was Akkadian Spoken in Emar? Diglossia in Emar A. F. Rainey: The Hybrid Language Written by Canaanite Scribes in the 14th Century BCE J.-P. Vita: Scribes and Dialects in Late Bronze Age Canaan E. von Dassow: Peripheral Akkadian Dialects, or Akkadography of Local Languages? Limited-corpus Languages of the Ancient Near East: M. Giorgieri: Zu den sogenannten Wurzelerweiterungen des Hurritischen Allgemeine Probleme und Einzelfälle P. M. Goedegebuure: The Alignment of Hattian: An Active Language with an Ergative Base N. V. Harouthyounyan: New Observations on Urartian Vocabulary J. Hazenbos: Hurritisch und syntaktische Ergativität M. Khachikyan On the Genesis of the Category of Aspect/Tense in Hurro-Urartian, Sumerian and Elamite M. Salvini: Les deux stèles de Rusa III, fils d’Erimena, provenant du Kesis Göl O. Soysal Zum Namen der Göttin Kata¶zipuri mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kasussystems des Hattischen J. Tavernier: On the Sounds Rendered by the s-, šand ́/z-Series in Elamite Papers outside the Main Topics Religion and Ideology: V. Bartash: Puḫru: Assembly as a Political Institution in Enuma eliš (Preliminary Study) V. V. Emelianov: On the Early History of melammu J. Klein: The Assumed Human Origin of Divine Dumuzi: A Reconsideration Mesopotamia and the Bible: M. B. Dick: Foreign Languages and Hegemony B. A. Levine: Cognate Patterns in Ancient Hebrew Poetry: Tracing the Lineage of Psalm 110 J. M. Sasson: Where Angels Fearlessly Tread: Mari Insights on Genesis 19 Presentation of Posters: L. Pecha, F. Rahman: The Old Babylonian Text Corpus Project (http://www.klinopis.cz/nobtc) S. Ticca, S. Viaggio: The Project “Duplicazione e Rinascita.” Cataloguing of Objects and Texts in Cuneiform Preserved in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad