History of the Akkadian Language (2 vols)

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History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors. Front page; Contents; Preface; Figures; Abbrev. Contents VOLUME I VOLUME2 Preface Figures and Tables Abbreviations: Bibliographical Other Abbreviations and Conventions Notes on Contributors PART 1 INTRODUCTION Ch. 1 Research on the Akkadian Language – Michael P. Streck Ch. 2 Teaching Akkadian in the Ancient Near East – Alexandra Kleinerman Ch. 3 Akkadian and Cuneiform – Michael P. Streck Ch. 4 Akkadian and Alphabetic Cuneiform – Carole Roche-Hawley and Robert Hawley Ch. 5 Akkadian and the Greek Alphabet (Graeco-Babyloniaca) – Martin Lang PART 3 AKKADIAN - SOME GENERAL TRENDS OF ITS DEVELOPMENT Ch. 6 Classification of Akkadian within the Semitic Family – Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee Ch. 7 Historical Morphology of Akkadian – N.J.C. Kouwenberg Ch. 8 A Historical Overview of Akkadian Morphosyntax – Ilya Arkhipov, Maksim Kalinin and Sergey Loesov Ch. 9 A History of the Akkadian Lexicon – Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik Ch. 10 A History of Akkadian Onomastics – Regine Pruzsinszky PART 4 AKKADIAN IN THE FOURTH AND THIRD MILLENNIA BCE Ch. 11 Old Akkadian – Walter Sommerfeld Ch. 12 Eblaite – Leonid Kogan and Manfred Krebernik PART 5 AKKADIAN IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BCE : Akkadian in Mesopotamia CH. 13 Old Babylonian – Michael P. Streck Ch. 14 Middle Babylonian – Wilfred H. van Soldt Ch. 15 Old Assyrian – N.J.C. Kouwenberg Ch. 16 Middle Assyrian – Stefan Jakob PART 6 AKKADIAN IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BCE : Peripheral Akkadian Ch. 17 Akkadian and the Amorites – Dominique Charpin Ch. 18 Akkadian in Syria and Canaan – Juan-Pablo Vita Ch. 19 Akkadian and the Hittites – Gary Beckman Ch. 20 Akkadian in Egypt – Matthias Müller Ch. 21 Akkadian in Elam – Florence Malbran-Labat PART 7 AKKADIAN IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE Ch. 22 Neo-Assyrian – Frederick M. Fales Ch. 23 (Early) Neo-Babylonian – Christian W. Hess Ch. 24 Late Babylonian – Johannes Hackl Ch. 25 The Death of Akkadian as a Written and Spoken Language – Johannes Hackl PART 8 AFTERLIFE - Akkadian after Akkadian CH. 26 The Legacy of Akkadian – John Huehnergard Index of Personal Names Index of Divine Names Index of Geographical Names Index of Subjects Index of Texts Cited