Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- List of Tables -- Lists of Abbreviations and Conventions -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Syllabary and Spelling -- Chapter 3: Phonology -- Chapter 4: The Structure of Nouns -- Chapter 5: The Inflection of Nouns -- Chapter 6: The Syntax of Nouns -- Chapter 7: The Structure, Inflection and Syntax of Adjectives -- Chapter 8: Numerals -- Chapter 9: Personal and Possessive Pronouns -- Chapter 10: Demonstrative Pronouns and Related Adverbs -- Chapter 11: Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns and Related Adverbs -- Chapter 12: Multifunctional Particles -- Chapter 13: Remaining Adverbs and Interjections -- Chapter 14: Prepositions -- Chapter 15: Enclitic Particles -- Chapter 16: The Inflection of the Strong Verb -- Chapter 17: The Derived Verbal Stems -- Chapter 18: The Conjugation of the Weak Verbs -- Chapter 19: The Functions of the Verbal Categories -- Chapter 20: The Syntax of the Infinitive -- Chapter 21: Voice -- Chapter 22: The Syntax of the Simple Clause I -- Chapter 23: The Syntax of the Simple Clause II -- Chapter 24: Coordination and Disjunction -- Chapter 25: Conditional Clauses -- Chapter 26: Relative and Adverbial Clauses -- Chapter 27: Complement Clauses -- References -- Indices.

A Grammar of Old Assyrian describes the language contained in a very large corpus of cuneiform tablets mainly found in Anatolia in the middle of Turkey and dating to ca 1900-1700 BC. These tablets come from the archives of a community of Assyrian merchants who conducted a long-distance trade between Assyria and Anatolia and eventually settled in Anatolia. Alongside Babylonian, Assyrian is one of the main branches of Akkadian, the Semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia (roughly present-day Iraq) in the third, second and first millennium BC, and Old Assyrian is its oldest attested stage. Old Assyrian is also one of the oldest and largest corpora of texts in any Semitic language. "Kouwenberg has managed to describe and discuss the corpus in a structural and comprehensive manner. His grammar will therefore prove to be a useful source of information for decades.

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