Complete Babylonian: A Teach Yourself Guide (Teach Yourself: Level 4)

✍ Scribed by Martin Worthington

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 402
• Series: Teach Yourself
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It's easy to teach yourself Babylonian! Complete Babylonian: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Babylonian, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding and writing Babylonian with confidence. Within each of the 24 thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society. Features: One and five-minute introductions to key principles to get you started Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the basics of the language

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Acknowledgements
......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Meet the author
......Page 17
Only got ten minutes?
......Page 18
1 - Introduction
......Page 25
2 - How to use this book
......Page 29
3 - Pronunciation
......Page 34
4 - Writing Babylonian in Roman characters......Page 38
5 - Roots and patterns
......Page 43
6 - Overview of nouns and adjectives
......Page 45
7 - Nouns and adjectives, singular
......Page 54
8 - Nouns, plural
......Page 61
9 - Adjectives, plural......Page 68
10 - The construct state
......Page 74
11 - Possessive suffixes
......Page 85
12 - The dual
......Page 99
13 - Prepositions
......Page 102
14 - Overview of verbs
......Page 107
15 - The present
......Page 118
16 - The preterite
......Page 125
17 - The perfect
......Page 131
18 - The stative and the verbal adjective......Page 136
19 - Verbs with accusative, dative and ventive suffixes......Page 148
20 - The imperative
......Page 157
21 - The precative......Page 161
22 - The infinitive......Page 167
23 - III-weak verbs......Page 174
24 - I-weak verbs
......Page 180
25 - II-weak verbs
......Page 187
26 - I-w verbs
......Page 196
27 - Doubly weak verbs
......Page 202
28 - Three irregular verbs: alaku, izuzzu and itulu
......Page 206
29 - Verbless clauses
......Page 210
30 - Joining clauses into sentences
......Page 217
31 - Particularities of relative clauses with ša
......Page 230
32 - The interrelation of clauses
......Page 235
33 - The Gtn, Ntn, Dtn and Štn systems
......Page 239
34 - The Gt, Dt and Št systems
......Page 247
35 - Participles......Page 254
36 - Adverbs
......Page 258
37 - Inde
pendent pronouns......Page 265
38 - Quadriliteral verbs
......Page 267
39 - Numbers......Page 268
40 - Cuneiform: some worked examples
......Page 269
41 - The main features of Assyrian
......Page 277
42 - Taking things further
......Page 281
Part seven - References
......Page 284
44 - The main features of syllabic spellings
......Page 288
45 - Summary of strong verbs' cores and suffixes
......Page 292
46 - Forming nouns and adjectives
......Page 295
47 - Some sound changes
......Page 300
Sumerograms and their Babylonian equivalents
......Page 307
Key to the exercises
......Page 313
Glossary
......Page 365
Abbreviations
......Page 391
Index
......Page 395
Cover
......Page 402