5. Akkadian linguistics

1. Introduction (to be written)
2. Akkadian as the oldest Semitic language
   
3. Akkadian dialects
4. Akkadian grammar (to be completed)
   1. about phonetics, Akkadian consonants and vowels
   2. about morphology, parts of a word, some linguistic concepts
      • notation, words, morphemes,( affix such as prefix, infix, and suffix, enclitic), stem, verb stems
      • root, paradigm
      • Akkadian word structure,
   3. Nouns
      1. Noun declension
         1. Case, 2. Gender, 3. Number, 4. State
      2. Forms of the construct state of the noun
         • simplest type ; other types
   4. Adjectives
      no degrees ; position ; case endings ; table ; types ; use
   5. Possessive pronouns ('my', your', 'his')
   6. Some type of nouns
      1. Abstract nouns
         • -ütu(m) ending ; feminine ending ; purs-type noun ; as logogram ;
         • spelling examples ;
      2. Nominal typology
5. pronouns
   1. Absolute pronouns
6. The verb
   
   • The verb in general
     
     tenses in general ; About stem formations ; verb types and vocalic classes ;
   • Strong verbs
     
     Strong and weak ; G-stem ;
   • tenses
     stative ; preterite ; present ; perfect ; imperative ; infinitive ; participle ; verbal adjective
   • modes
     indicative ; ventive ; conjunctions ; subjunctive
   • personal pronouns
   • D-stem or II-stem ; -stem or III-stem ; N-stem or IV-stem
7. Overview of paradigms for the strong verbs
   
8. Summary of meaning of stem formations
   
9. Weak verbs
   
   1. Division of weak verbs,
   2. verbs III weak,
   3. verbs II weak,
   4. verbs I weak, Aleph, J, N,
   5. verbs I weak, W,
   6. verbs double weak,
   7. irregular verbs ,

Akkadian dictionaries (references)

1. CAD, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
2. AHw, Akkadisches handwörterbuch
3. Vocabularies
   1. Vocabularies in some textbooks,
   2. Akkadian vocabulary (in Dutch)
      1. See letter A; D-G; H; I-J; M; P-R; T-U; W-Z; the entire vocabulary is about 300 pages and may be send to you upon request) (all in Dutch)
4. Sumerian dictionary

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