Akkadian
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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Akkadian; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.3 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: limited information
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 3
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.3
Summary
Verbal pseudocoordination similar to Arabic and Hebrew is attested, and the coordinator ma 'and' also marks complement clauses with perception verbs.
References
Cohen, Eran. 2000. Akkadian -ma in Diachronic Perspective. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 90(2). 207–226. https://doi.org/10.1515/zava.2000.90.2.207
Deutscher, Guy. 2000. Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Pages 98–99,111–115]
Huehnergard, John. 1997. A grammar of Akkadian. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press. [Pages 125–126]