Old Babylonian Grammar (1) (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 Ancient Near East, 168)

"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 neighboring 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"-- Provided by publisher ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Abbreviations ‎1. Textgenres ‎2. Regions/Dialects ‎3. Grammatical Terminology ‎4. Bibliographical Abbreviations ‎5. Other Abbreviations ‎Chapter 1. Introduction ‎1. Akkadian in General ‎1.1. The Name “Akkadian” ‎1.2. History of Akkadian ‎1.3. Akkadian and the Semitic Language Family ‎2. Old Babylonian ‎2.1. Old Babylonian and Ancient Near Eastern Languages ‎2.2. Chronological Development of Old Babylonian ‎2.3. Geographical Distribution of Old Babylonian ‎2.4. Text Genres of Old Babylonian ‎3. Scope and Layout of This Grammar ‎Chapter 2. Orthography and Phonology ‎1. Cuneiform Writing ‎1.1. Cuneiform Signs ‎1.2. Transliteration and Transcription ‎1.3. Sign Values ‎1.4. Logograms ‎1.5. Types of Phonograms ‎1.6. Survey of Old Babylonian Phonograms of the Types CV, VC, and V ‎1.7. Survey of Old Babylonian Phonograms of the Type CVC ‎1.8. Complementation of CVC- and CV-Signs ‎1.9. Morphographemic Spellings ‎1.10. Scribal Mistakes ‎2. The Vowels ‎2.1. Phonemic Inventory of Vowels ‎2.2. Plene Vowel Spellings ‎2.3. Broken Vowel Spellings ‎2.4. /a/ ‎2.5. /e/ ‎2.6. /i/ ‎2.7. /ô/ and /o/ ‎2.8. /u/ ‎2.9. Vowel Length ‎2.10. Vowel Contraction ‎2.11. Preservation of Contiguous Vowels ‎2.12. Vowel Elision ‎3. Consonants ‎3.1. Phonemic Inventory of Consonants ‎3.2. /ʾ/ ‎3.3. /b/ ‎3.4. /d/ ‎3.5. /g/ ‎3.6. /ḫ/ ‎3.7. /j/ ‎3.8. /k/ ‎3.9. /l/ ‎3.10. /m/ ‎3.11. /n/ ‎3.12. /p/ ‎3.13. /q/ ‎3.14. /r/ ‎3.15. /s/ ‎3.16. /ṣ/ ‎3.17. /š/ ‎3.18. /t/ ‎3.19. /ṭ/ ‎3.20. /w/ ‎3.21. /z/ ‎3.22. Consonantal Length ‎4. Syllables ‎5. Word Stress ‎5.1. Plene Vowel Spellings CV-V ‎5.2. Vowel Elision ‎5.3. Trochaic Verse Ending ‎6. Sentence Stress ‎Chapter 3. Morphology: General Remarks ‎1. Parts of Speech ‎2. Types of Morphemes ‎Chapter 4. Pronouns ‎1. Generalities ‎2. Personal Pronouns ‎2.1. Paradigm ‎2.2. Nominative Independent ‎2.3. Independent Possessive Pronouns ‎2.4. Genitive Suffixes ‎2.5. Dative Independent ‎2.6. Dative Suffixes ‎2.7. Genitive/Accusative Independent ‎2.8. Accusative Suffixes ‎3. Demonstrative Pronouns ‎3.1. annûm ‎3.2. anummûm ‎3.3. ullûm ‎4. The Determinative Pronoun ‎4.1. Form ‎4.2. Headless ša ‎4.3. The ša Genitive Modifying a Head Noun ‎5. Interrogative Pronouns ‎5.1. mannum ‎5.2. mīnum ‎5.3. ajjûm ‎6. Indefinite Pronouns ‎6.1. mamma(n) and Related Pronouns ‎6.2. mīmma and Related Pronouns ‎6.3. ajjûmma ‎Chapter 5. Nouns ‎1. Inflectional Categories ‎2. Noun Patterns ‎2.1. Survey ‎2.2. Primary Nouns ‎2.3. Deverbal Nouns ‎3. Loaned Nouns ‎4. Compound Noun Phrases ‎5. Gender ‎5.1. Morphology ‎5.2. Use of the Feminine Ending ‎5.3. Morphologically Masculine but Grammatically Feminine Singular ‎5.4. Morphologically Masculine but Grammatically Variable Gender in the Singular ‎5.5. Grammatically Masculine in the Singular and Morphologically Feminine in the Plural ‎5.6. Masculine in the Singular and Variable Gender in the Plural ‎5.7. Morphologically Masculine but Grammatically Feminine Plural ‎6. Number ‎6.1. Singular ‎6.2. Dual ‎6.3. Plural ‎6.4. Collective Nouns ‎7. Case ‎7.1. Morphology ‎7.2. Use ‎8. State ‎8.1. Status Rectus ‎8.2. Status Constructus ‎8.3. Status Absolutus ‎Chapter 6. Numbers ‎1. Cardinals ‎1.1. Morphology of the Cardinals ‎1.2. Syntax of the Cardinals ‎2. Ordinals ‎2.1. Morphology of the Ordinals ‎2.2. Syntax of the Ordinals ‎3. Fractions ‎3.1. Morphology of the Fractions ‎3.2. Syntax of the Fractions ‎4. Multiplicatives ‎5. Derivations from Numbers ‎Bibliography ‎Index of Subjects ‎Selective Index of Words and Syllabograms ‎Index of Texts