17.482, Qs: Discourse Styles; Affricates in Akkadian, Sumerian

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Subject: 17.482, Qs: Discourse Styles; Affricates in Akkadian, Sumerian

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1)
Date: 13-Feb-2006
From: Jeffrey Gross < jmgross1 at gmail.com >
Subject: Classification of Discourse Styles 

2)
Date: 13-Feb-2006
From: Vladimir Naydenov < sanggigmen at yahoo.com >
Subject: Affricates in Akkadian and Sumerian 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:24:17
From: Jeffrey Gross < jmgross1 at gmail.com >
Subject: Classification of Discourse Styles 
 

For an effort to tag styles of discourse in broadcast communication (e.g.,
news reports, talk radio, podcasts), can anyone point me to a list of
descriptive terminology (e.g., ''discursive'', ''argumentative'',
''halting'', ''chatty'', ''interrupting'', etc.) or any other
classification system? 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics



	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:24:23
From: Vladimir Naydenov < sanggigmen at yahoo.com >
Subject: Affricates in Akkadian and Sumerian 

	

Perhaps my question is a bit specialized, but I didn't know where else to
ask it; if there happens to be an Assyriologist around here, perhaps he/she
can answer it.

Just how established is nowadays the theory that some or all of the
so-called fricatives in Akkadian and Sumerian (above all ''sh'' with hacek
:)) were in fact affricates? I'd like to know to what extent it is accepted
in the Assyriological community.

Best regards,
Vladimir Naydenov 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Phonology


 



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