Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation

Guy Deutscher

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PART I: PRELIMINARY CHAPTERS Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: What is Sentential Complementation? Chapter 3: Akkadian PART II: STRUCTURAL HISTORY: THE EMERGENCE OF COMPLEMENTIZERS AND QUOTATIVES Chapter 4: The Emergence of Finite Complements Chapter 5: The Grammaticalization of the Quotative Construction PART III: FUNCTIONAL HISTORY: THE CHANGES IN THE FUNCTIONAL DOMAIN OF COMPLEMENTATION FROM 2500BC TO 500BC Chapter 6: The Functional Domain of Complementation in Babylonian Chapter 7: Verbs of Knowledge, Perception, and Others Chapter 8: Manipulation and Modality Chapter 9: The WH-Functional Domain, Direct and Indirect Questions PART IV: THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEMENTATION AS AN ADAPTIVE PROCESS Chapter 10: Functional Parallels for the Babylonian Development Chapter 11: The Development of Complementation as an Adaptive Process

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