Complete Babylonian: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Babylonian, with Original Texts

: INTRODUCTION: The Language’s Relatives and Development: What about Assyrian?: A note on Sumerian: Pronunciation: About the exercises: THE CUNEIFORM SCRIPT, TRANSLITERATION AND NORMALIZATION: Phonetic writing: Sumerographic writing and phonetic complements: Determinatives: The cuneiform script: how it evolved: Transliteration: Which sign is being used to write a syllable?: Normalization: SOME GENERAL FEATURES OF THE LANGUAGE: Roots and patterns: Position of the verb within the sentence: Articles: Pronouns as subjects of verbs: Sound changes: Syllables and division into syllables (‘syllabification’): Sound change 1: vowel elision: Sound change 2: vowel contraction: Sound change 3: assimilation of consonants: OVERVIEW OF NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES: Case: Gender: Number: Words functioning as nouns: NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES, SINGULAR: The second millennium BC: The first millennium BC: NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES, PLURAL: The second millennium BC: Masculine nouns:: Masculine adjectives:: Feminine nouns and adjectives:: The first millennium BC: HOW TO SAY ‘OF’: THE ‘CONSTRUCT STATE’: Origin of ‘construct’ forms: Formation of the ‘construct state’ in the singular: Formation of the ‘construct state’ in the plural: Use of the singular and plural construct forms: ADVERBS AND LOCATIVES: OVERVIEW OF VERBS: The four verb systems: The sub-systems: tn and t: ‘Weak’ verbs: Verbs with ‘a’ and verbs with ‘e’: Tenses: Pronouns and gender: Summary: THE PRESENT: Forming the present for non-weak verbs s: Forming the present for weak verbs: THE PRETERITE: THE PERFECT: THE STATIVE: VERBAL FORMS FOR ALL PERSONS: HOW TO EXPRESS WISHES AND COMMANDS: SUBORDINATE CLAUSES: VERBS AND THE DIRECTION OF MOTION: PRONOUNS: THE DUAL: A FEW TRICKS OF THE TRADE: Sandhi spellings: Puns: Unorthodox syllable divisions: Special sign readings: Alphabetic influence: Rebus writings: Scribal errors resulting from copying: Scribal errors resulting from dictation: The structure of poetic lines: Structural parallelism: FURTHER READING: APPENDIX: GLOSSED CUNEIFORM READINGS: GLOSSARY