[PDF] Sumerian Grammatical Texts eBook

Author : Stephen Langdon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1512820784

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Dietz Otto Edzard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9047403401

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It seems safe to say that this Sumerian Grammar by Professor D.O. Edzard will become the new classic reference in the field. It is an up-to-date, reliable guide to the language of the Sumerians, the inventors of cuneiform writing in the late 4th millennium B.C., and thus essential contributors to the high cultural standard of the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. Following traditional lines, the Grammar describes general characteristics, origins, linguistic environment, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and phraseology. Due attention is given to the symbiosis with Semitic Akkadian, with which Sumerian was to form a veritable linguistic area. With lucid explanations of all technical linguistic theory. Each transliteration carries its English translation.

Author : Stephen Langdon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780331770735

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Excerpt from Sumerian Grammatical Texts, Vol. 12 When the whole land of Sumer and Akkad was united, and Babylon was a new capital for a new race, the religious signifi cance of Sumer survived, and dead Sumerian language was used exclusively for all sort of religious compositions and records. Previous to the usurpations of Marduk of Babylon, and his satellite Nabu, the Semite Akkadians could boast onlya great sanctuary of the sun god of Sippar. Sippar seems to have been the early center of Akkadian influence. The city gave its proper name to the Euphrates, which was known as the river of Sippar to the Sumerians. All the cities of kis, Upi, Babylon are located in the same region. South of Nippur began Sumer, or later on the kingdom of the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.