LEADER 02394nam 22005053u 450 001 9910782558603321 005 20230721003752.0 010 $a1-383-01967-3 010 $a1-281-34130-4 010 $a0-19-154483-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000557019 035 $a(EBL)430786 035 $a(OCoLC)352917905 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000366484 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12080435 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000366484 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10415874 035 $a(PQKB)10757668 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC430786 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000557019 100 $a20130418d2007|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSyntactic Change in Akkadian$b[electronic resource] $eThe Evolution of Sentential Complementation 210 $aOxford $cOUP Oxford$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-829988-5 327 $aContents; Preface; Abbreviations; Sources, Text Editions; Part I: Preliminary Chapters; Part II: Structural History: The Emergence of Complementizers and Quotatives; Part III: Functional History: The Changes in the Functional Domain of Complementation from 2500 BC to 500 BC; Part IV: The Development of Complementation as an Adaptive Process; Glossary; References; Index of Subjects; Index of Quoted Texts 330 $aIn this book Guy Deutscher examines the historical development of Akkadian, the oldest recorded Semitic language and one of the earliest attested languages. Two thousand years of texts from 2500BC to 500BC provide a unique source for the study of linguistic change. The first two parts of the book present an historical grammar of sentential complementation. Part one traces the emergence of new structures, describing how finite complements first developed, and tracing the grammaticalization of the quotative construction. Part two examines the language's functional history. It looks at the evolut 606 $aAkkadian language 615 4$aAkkadian language. 676 $a492.15 676 $a492/.15 700 $aDeutscher$b Guy$0317756 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782558603321 996 $aSyntactic change in Akkadian$91145130 997 $aUNINA