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| ISBN: | 9780191544835
0191544833
0198241364
9780198299882
9780199532223
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | In 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Deutscher, Guy, Dr. Syntactic change in Akkadian. Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2000 0198241364 9780198241362
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