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Syntactic Change in Akkadian - The Evolution of Sentential Complementation (Paperback)
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Syntactic Change in Akkadian - The Evolution of Sentential Complementation (Paperback)
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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
evolution of linguistic structures, showing for example how finite
complements and embedded questions became more widespread as other
parataxis and non-finite complements receded. In the final part of
the book the author puts these changes in a broader typological
perspective and compares the development of Akkadian to similar
processes in other languages. The emergence of finite
complementation may, he suggests, be an adaptive process, related
to the growing complexity of communication.
This book throws new light on the nature of linguistic change and
offers fresh insights on a language that has rarely been presented
to non-specialists, despite its enormous historical importance.
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