Some Observations on Nuzu Akkadian
1938; Linguistic Society of America; Volume: 14; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/408877
ISSN1535-0665
Autores Tópico(s)Linguistics and Cultural Studies
ResumoThe Nuzu tablets, excavated by an American expedition, have consumed a good deal of the labor of American Assyriologists in recent years and will continue doing so for some time to come. After the publication of the material has far advanced, the grammar of the new dialect is in progress of reconstruction. The efforts made in this direction have so far been of a merely descriptive kind. It seems time now to apply also the linguistic line of approach to Nuzu Akkadian. Though the registration of the philological facts is the necessary basis for such work, it will in turn help to clarify difficulties which the descriptive grammar is unable to remove. The observations presented here have arisen from the study of Pfeiffer and Speiser's One Hundred New Selected Nuzi Texts; they will' therefore be documented by reference chiefly to that volume. They will deal with certain features of orthography, phonology, morphology and syntax in the order indicated.1
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