Dialect studies: Verbal Paradigms

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I am posting some paradigm charts I made earlier this year. My work was reviewed by a fellow student and I also submitted to a professor for review, although it may be some time before I get a response on that. In any case, I will use the explanation I wrote for the document itself to clarify my intent:


The following diachronic paradigm charts, which address eight dialects of Akkadian (Old Akkadian, OB, OA, SB, MB, MA, Late Babylonian and NA), were assembled by a student with the aim of providing a study aid for learners of Akkadian. To my knowledge, no set of published Akkadian paradigms attempt to lay bare the extent of diachronic variation for the reader, that is, none present forms from all eight dialects side by side.

There are reasons for this lack of (what seems like) an obvious and basic learning tool. In certain periods we lack complete data, attestations of a verb in a given stem, in a given person, etc. This would be enough for any careful scholar to refrain from making a complete paradigm. The below charts do not share the aims or practices of an Assyriological grammar. I intend to provide *HYPOTHETICAL* complete paradigms, built by sustaining known forms from one period to another unless published grammars or language sketches can provide data and proof of a required form modification. The intent, then, is simply to provide the learner with a visual summary of the current state of the field so that a mental model of Akkadian morphology can more easily be acquired. Hence, the charts below do not intend to represent new information. Version 1 contains fourteen paradigms; this will be expanded in version 2.

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