A Glossary of Old Syrian – Volume 1 – K 8.1 Sanmartín Hardback 9781575069692

A Glossary of Old SyrianVolume 1: ? ?\nAuthor(s): Joaquin Sanmartn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Eisenbrauns\nISBN-13: 9781575069692, 978-1575069692\nSynopsis\nA Glossary of Old Syrian: ? ? is the first of two volumes aimed at the completion of a lexicographical index of the Old Syrian linguistical continuum. This glossary gives a picture, or map, of the Old Syrian lexicon as it can be extracted and reconstructed from the available sources, from the (Old Akkadian-)Eblatic through the Old and Middle Babylonian corpora.\n\nOld Syrian can be defined most appropriately as a diachronically conservative, geographically pluricentric, and pragmatically multilayered linguistic cluster. Therefore, the present work pays special attention to the distribution of lexical data along diatopic and diastratic criteria. In view of the enormous amount of material and the dispersion of the data, this glossary focuses on the most representativ.