Sumerian Grammar

Drawing on introductory courses in Sumerian he taught for many years, Edzard (emeritus, Assyriology, Munich U.) commences his descriptive grammar of the general characteristics and specific features of the language of the inventors of cuneiform writing with his views on the "hopeless" debate over the language's linguistic affiliation. After describing parts of speech, numerals, and syntax- related topics, the author returns to the question of Sumerian's origins with a chapter on the linguis...