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DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR OF MIDDLE ASSYRIAN - JACOB ...

The Middle Assyrian period (ca. 1500-1000 BCE) is characterized by the transformation of the
former city state of Ashur into an expansive empire. Over the last couple of decennia  the text
corpus has grown considerably due to many archaeological excavations of archives in Syria. This
grammatical description of Middle Assyrian seeks to improve our knowledge of the language of
these texts. It takes into account recently published texts  including the archives from Tell
As-S H Hamad  Tell Huwira  Tell Sabi Abyad and Tell Taban. The result serves as a long overdue
supplementation to Mayer's Untersuchungen zur Grammatik des Mittelassyrischen (1971). The
monograph consists of an introduction to the corpus and its historical context  followed by
discussions on orthography  phonology  morphology and syntax. Non-Assyrian influences on
orthography and grammar are also subject of discussion. In addition  comparisons are made
between the different stages of the Assyrian language in order to put Middle Assyrian into
context of its intermediate stage between Old Assyrian (ca. 1900-1700) and Neo-Assyrian (ca.
1000-600). Thus  the monograph is aimed at Assyriologists as well as Semitists.

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