TY - BOOK ID - 16851043 TI - Sumerian grammar PY - 2003 VL - 71 SN - 9004126082 9786610466832 1417506008 1280466839 9047403401 9781417506002 9789047403401 9789004126084 9781280466830 6610466831 PB - Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Sumerian language KW - Grammar KW - Grammar. KW - -Grammar KW - SumeĢrien (Langue) KW - Grammaire KW - Sumerian language - Grammar KW - Sumerian language. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16851043 AB - 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. ER -