Syntactic Change in Akkadian

The Evolution of Sentential Complementation

• Author(s): Guy Deutscher,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 204
• ISBN_10: 0198299885
  ISBN_13: 9780198299882
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax ,

Description:... Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language spoken in Assyria and Babylonia, is one of the earliest known languages, with a surviving written history from 2500BC to 500BC. Guy Deutscher investigates its development over these two millennia. He shows that changes in the language can be linked to the emergence of complex patterns of communication required by an increasingly sophisticated civilization.