Old Babylonian Grammar: Volume One

✍ Scribed by Michael P. Streck

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 565
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book contains a descriptive grammar of Old Babylonian, the best attested period and dialect of Akkadian. Volume 1 describes the orthography, phonology, nouns, pronouns and numbers of Old Babylonian.

✦ Table of Contents

‎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