Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface xi
4. Program xv
5. Part 1. Language in the Ancient Near East
6. Opening Lectures
7. Sumerian: What We Know and What We Want to Know 1
8. Prä-Akkadisch. Die Vorläufer der “Sprache von Akkade” in der frühdynastischen Zeit 77
9. Languages of the Ancient Near East
10. Notes on the Plural Bases in Sumerian 165
11. Sumerian: A Uralic Language (I) 181
12. Proleptic Pronouns in Middle Hittite 211
13. Das Problem der phonetischen Interpretation der anlautenden scriptio plena im Keilschriftluwischen 249
14. Die Wurzelstruktur im Semitischen. Überlegungen zur Rekonstruktion des Wurzelvokals 267
15. Early Lexical Lists Revisited. Structures and Classification as a Mnemonic Device 285
16. Sumerian and Akkadian Literature and Literary Language
17. Similes in the Gilgamesh Epic 311
18. The Sign of the Flood and the Language of Signs in Babylonian Omen Literature 323
19. You Recite the Incantation “I am a pure man”: qabû, manû or dabābu 337
20. Le langage figuré dans les lettres paléo-assyriens. Expressions relatives à l’homme et à la nature 347
21. Structural Analysis of Enmerkara and the Lord of Arata 377
22. “Goddess of War, Pacifier of Kings”: An Analysis of Ištar’s Martial Role in the Maledictory Sections of the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions 389
23. Sumerian and Akkadian Lexicon and Terminology
24. Les véhicules terrestres dans les textes de Mari. 403
25. Le cochon dans les listes lexicales: quelles logiques de classement 421
26. The Qersu in Neo-Assyrian Cultic Setting. Its Origin, Identification, Depiction and Evolution 441
27. Über Spiegel, Bronze aus Dilmun in altsumerischer Zeit 491
28. Périphérique ou local? Le vocabulaire des paysages de la Valée de l’Euphrate au IIe millénaire av. n. è. 505
29. The Correspondence between Verbal and Nominal Morphology in Sumerian
30. Sumerian Compound Verbs: Class II 521
31. The Sumerian Verbal Prefixes im-ma- and im-mi 535
32. Argument Structure of Sumerian Verbs II: The Transitive-Ditransitive Alternation 563
33. The Case of Sumerian Cases 577
34. Akkadian: Diachrony and Contact
35. Amorite Names Written with the Sign Ú and the Issue of the Suffixed Third Person Masculine Singular Pronoun in Amorite 591
36. The Recycling of the T-infix in Prehistoric Akkadian: A Case of Exaptation 617
37. Innovations in the Neo-Babylonian Lexicon 647
38. i-ba-aš-šu-ú vs. i-ba-aš-šu from Old to Neo-Babylonian 661
39. Morphosyntax and Text Structure in Akkadian
40. Conditional Structures in the Old Babylonian Omens 707
41. Oblique Core Arguments in Akkadian 729
42. Morphosyntactic Structure of the Premises in the Neo-Babylonian Laws 751
43. Akkadian Sentences about the Present Time (II/2) 759
44. The Enclytic Particle -mi within the Framework of Old Babylonian Epistemic Modality— A New Understanding 787
45. Peripheral Akkadian
46. Akkadian Written by Egyptian Scribes in the 14th and 13th Centuries BCE 801
47. The “Second Glosses” in the Lexical Lists from Emar: West Semitic or Akkadian 813
48. Was Akkadian Spoken in Emar? Diglossia in Emar 841
49. The Hybrid Language Written by Canaanite Scribes in the 14th Century BCE 851
50. Scribes and Dialects in Late Bronze Age Canaan 863
51. Peripheral Akkadian Dialects, or Akkadography of Local Languages 895
52. Limited-corpus Languages of the Ancient Near East
53. Zu den sogenannten Wurzelerweiterungen des Hurritischen. Allgemeine Probleme und Einzelfälle 925
54. The Alignment of Hattian: An Active Language with an Ergative Base 949
55. New Observations on Urartian Vocabulary 983
56. Hurritisch und syntaktische Ergativität 989
57. On the Genesis of the Category of Aspect/Tense in Hurro-Urartian, Sumerian and Elamite 999
58. Les deux stèles de Rusa III, fils d’Erimena, provenant du Kesis Göl 1015
59. Zum Namen der Göttin Katahzipuri mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Kasussystems des Hattischen 1041
60. On the Sounds Rendered by the s-, š- and s/z-Series in Elamite 1059
61. Papers outside the Main Subjects
62. Religion and Ideology
63. Puhru: Assembly as a Political Institution in Enuma eliš 1079
64. On the Early History of melammu 1109
65. The Assumed Human Origin of Divine Dumuzi: A Reconsideration 1121
66. Mesopotamia and the Bible
67. Foreign Languages and Hegemony 1135
68. Cognate Patterns in Ancient Hebrew Poetry: Tracing the Lineage of Psalm 110 1147
69. Where Angels Fearlessly Tread: Mari Insights on Genesis 19 1163
70. Presentation of Posters
71. The Old Babylonian Text Corpus Project (http://www.klinopis.cz/nobtc) 1185
72. The Project “Duplicazione e Rinascita.” 1193
73. Abbreviations of Periodicals, Reference Works, Series, and Sources 1207