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Syntactic Change in Akkadian

The Evolution of Sentential Complementation

Syntactic Change in Akkadian( )
Author: Deutscher, Guy
ISBN:978-0-19-953222-3
Publication Date:Dec 2007
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $76.00
Book Description:

Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language spoken in Assyria and Babylonia, is one of the earliest known languages, with a surviving written history from 2500BC to 500BC. Guy Deutscher investigates its development over these two millennia. He shows that changes in the language can be linked to the emergence of complex patterns of communication required by an increasingly sophisticated civilization. His book will interest specialists and general linguists. It offers the former a significant...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.045 x 9.087 x 0.53 Inches
Book Weight:0.779 Pounds
Author Biography
Deutscher, Guy (Author)
Guy Deutscher was born in Tel Aviv in 1969. He received an undergraduate degree in Math and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Cambridge. Afterward, he became a fellow in historical linguistics at St. John's College at Cambridge. He later became a honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester and was a professor in the department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages at the University of Leiden in Holland. He has written several books including Syntactic Change in Akkadian (2000), The Unfolding of Language (2005), and Through the Language Glass (2010).

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