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[Kimberly Kahn]

Syntactic Change in Akkadian
The Evolution of Sentential Complementation
GUY DEUTSCHER
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.
2001    224 pp.  $70.00


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