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Bēl Lišāni: Current Research in Akkadian Linguistics
Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Kalinin M.
Under the general editorship: R. Hasselbach-Andee, N. Pat-El
Akkadian, a Semitic language attested in writing from 2600 BCE until the first century CE, was the language of Mesopotamia for nearly three millennia. This volume examines the language from a comparative and historical linguistic perspective.
Inspired by the work of renowned linguist John Huehnergard and featuring contributions from top scholars in the field, Bēl Lišāni showcases the latest research on Akkadian linguistics. Chapters focus on a wide range of topics, including lexicon, morphology, word order, syntax, verbal semantics, and subgrouping. Building upon Huehnergard’s pioneering studies focused on the identification of Proto-Akkadian features, the contributors explore linguistic innovations in the language from historical and comparative perspectives. In doing so, they open the way for further etymological, dialectical, and lexical research into Akkadian.
An important update on and synthesis of the research in Akkadian linguistics, this volume will be welcomed by Semitists, Akkadian language specialists, and scholars and students interested in historical linguistics.
In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Paul-Alain Beaulieu, Øyvind Bjøru, Maksim Kalinin, N. J. C. Kouwenberg, Sergey Loesov, Jacob J. de Ridder, Ambjörn Sjörs, Michael P. Streck, and Juan-Pablo Vita.
Chapters
Loesov S., Kalinin M., , in: Bēl Lišāni: Current Research in Akkadian Linguistics.: Eisenbrauns, 2021. Ch. 4 P. 96–119.
The paper studies the expression of tense and voice in an Akkadian variety, Neo-Assyrian. The grammatical reading of a given verb form results from the interaction of the lexical meaning of the verb in question with the grammatical semantics of the morphological form used. Starting from this observation, the authors single out five verbal classes ...
Added: November 7, 2021
Starchenko A., Маринина В. В., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2026 Т. 22 № 1 С. 352–404
The study focuses on the semantic field ‘change’ in Northern Khanty. Based on a typological questionnaire, we present data on the use of the lexical items of the field and provide their analysis in frame semantics. We show that Northern Khanty has a dominant system in which most frames are expressed by the pɛlət- / ...
Added: October 27, 2026
Пинчукова А. Е., Филологический вестник 2026 Т. 5 № 5 С. 152–167
The article examines the phenomenon of humor as an effective strategy for popularizing scientific knowledge in general and medical knowledge in particular. The aim of the study is to establish mechanisms for adapting medical phenomena to the extralinguistic and linguistic features of popular science works on medical topics in English. It is noted that the ...
Added: October 26, 2026
Пинчукова А. Е., Современный ученый 2026 № 11 С. 190–202
The article analyzes strategies for popularizing medicine in the context of a rapidly developing literary genre. The aim of the study is to identify ways to adapt medical knowledge to the stylistic and pragmatic features of nonfiction works on medical topics, used by science communicators with different professional backgrounds. The article examines the genre of ...
Added: October 26, 2026
Душакова Н., Фольклор: структура, типология, семиотика 2025 Т. 8 № 4 С. 145–159
Цифровая среда может выступать не только каналом трансмиссии устной памяти или хранилищем разрозненных воспоминаний, целенаправленно или стихийно создаваемых каждым, кто пользуется смартфоном. Как и устная память, выделяемая современными исследователями «память цифровая» представляет собой активный процесс, на который влияют самые разные факторы (от контекста размещения оцифрованных или изначально цифровых данных до надежности инфраструктуры и заинтересованности отдельных ...
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Nagornaya A., M.: ФЛИНТА, 2026.
This textbook is intended for students pursuing degrees in linguistics with an advanced level of English proficiency (C1–C2) and aims to develop their professional communicative competence in academic and intercultural contexts. It focuses on key sociocultural trends of the twenty-first century, including metamodernism, celebritism, achievement culture, neo-consumerism, changing perceptions of time, the emotionalization of society, ...
Added: October 24, 2026
Нижегородский государственный лингвистический университет им. Н.А. Добролюбова, 2021.
В сборнике статей излагаются актуальные вопросы междисциплинарных исследований коммуникаций в условиях цифровой цивилизационной среды и всестороннего обсуждения широкого круга проблемных вопросов, связанных с разрывом технологических и гуманитарных контекстов в развитии современного общества. ...
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Uspensky B. A., Словесность и история 2026 № 3 С. 291–297
The publication is dedicated to Vladimir Ivanovich Malyshev (1910–1976), an outstanding 20th-century archaeographer and the founder of the Repository of Ancient Manuscripts (Drevlekhranilishche) of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) in St. Petersburg. The author recalls his conversations with V. I. Malyshev. Along with several episodes from the scholar's archaeographic work and events during ...
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Dolgorukova N., Кифишина А. Ф., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2026 № 527 С. 23–31
Исследуется эволюция сюжета о короле Лире через призму трёх средневековых текстов. Особое внимание уделяется мотиву Фортуны и судьбы, а также образу Лира. Анализ демонстрирует, как трансформация сюжета отражают меняющиеся культурные и литературыне контексты Средневековья, подготовляющие почву для дальнейших интерпретаций, в том числе у Шекспира. ...
Added: October 20, 2026
Stognieva O., Safonova D., Lozitskaya E., Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This textbook is a practical and engaging guide for learners and professionals who need to communicate clearly and confidently in multicultural business environments. It offers step-by-step strategies, concise practice tasks, and regular progress checks that help readers apply intercultural communication skills directly to real workplace situations. Clear structure and focused activities make the book equally ...
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Ватлецов Сергей Германович, М.: ИНФРА-М, 2026.
Монография представляет собой теоретическое и лексикографическое описание зооморфной лексики в английском языке. В работе осуществлено концептуальное осмысление вербального зооморфизма, позволившее отграничить его от смежных, диффузных и пограничных языковых явлений. В сборнике английских анималистических метафор и сравнений отражается зооморфная лексика в художественной, бытовой, производственно-профессиональной сферах и сфере массовой коммуникации.
Книга адресована специалистам в области германистики, когнитивной лингвистики, ...
Added: October 18, 2026
Степанов А. Г., Slavica TerGestina 2025 № 35-2 С. 158–193
The connection of the poetic form with the content is investigated. The free verse, developed by W. Whitman in the second half of the 19th century, took root in the USSR with difficulty. In modern Russian poetry, the free verse, while preserving the aura of Western poetic culture, often combines gender and political meanings, broadcasting ...
Added: October 16, 2026
Podobryaev A., Ivlieva N., Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2026 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 1–25
Unlike many other Turkic languages, Balkar normally demonstrates obligatory subject-verb
number agreement in finite clauses with 3rd person subjects: when a subject is plural-marked,
so is the verb. However, there are cases when the subject is not overtly plural-marked, but the
verb can be. We argue for an account where such facts are not reduced to any form ...
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Zenkin S., P.: Classiques Garnier, 2025.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, visual image (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) can often be a character in literary and film plots, an element of the fictional world. Its narrative forms and functions are explored from a theoretical and comparative perspective. ...
Added: October 13, 2026
ИДВ РАН, 2026.
This paper addresses the issue perceiving the national Vietnamese costume as a tool of cultural representation in the context of official state events held in Vietnam and abroad. The study focuses on specific cases of protocol visits, meetings, forums, and beauty contests, where the ao dai and other types and elements of national clothing are ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Qiang S., Linguistic Research 2025 No. 3 P. 76–85
The determination of new words and meanings is a key issue in lexical history studies. However,
common reliance on identifying “the earliest examples” can be challenged by textual complexity and subjective
disagreements. Focusing on the emergence of the FAST meaning of kuai (快), this study proposes criteria for
identifying new meanings from the perspective of the lexical system. ...
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Budennaya E., Русская речь 2026 Т. 4 С. 57–78
This study analyzes non-calendar and hypocoristic Christian names
within the Russian white clergy. It identifi es two active periods of name formation using Slavic hypocoristic suffi xes: the 11th — 14th centuries (peaking
in the 12th) and the 16th — 17th centuries.
The fi rst period is tied to the general adoption of Christian names, where
diminutive forms acted ...
Added: October 11, 2026
Arkhipov I., Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie Orientale 2023 Vol. 117 No. 1 P. 69–84
The Louvre houses thirty-two Old Babylonian letters discovered in Kiš during the excavations led by Henri de Genouillac in 1912. He published the letters, copied in cuneiform, in 1925. Twenty-two of these letters were then published by Jean-Robert Kupper in 1959. In 2019, the letters were collated in the Louvre, and the results of this ...
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Markina E., Westenholz A., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2024 Vol. 144 No. 2 P. 361–368
In this paper, the year names on two tablets from the reign of Naramsin of Akkad are mutually restored and their contribution to understanding the development of Old Akkadian royal iconography is considered. ...
Added: July 11, 2024
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2023.
В первом разделе сборника представлены труды конференции, приуроченной к юбилею А.Г. Беловой – крупнейшего специалиста по арабистике и семитологии. Другие разделы посвящены полевым исследованиям, частным вопросам лексики и грамматики восточных языков, истории лингвистики. Книга адресована специалистам в различных областях общего и востоковедного языкознания. ...
Added: February 18, 2024
Alexandrov B., Вестник древней истории 2023 Т. 83 № 4 С. 975–1003
The article contains translation and commentary to the Akkadian letter RS 34.165 from the archives of Ugarit. This letter describes a battle between Hittite and Assyrian armies fought near the town of Nihriya in Upper Mesopotamia close to the end of 1240s B.C. ...
Added: December 24, 2023
Sergey Koval, Loesov S., Studies in Language 2025 Vol. 49 No. 1 P. 93–118
The Old Assyrian language is a branch of East Semitic. East Semitic has been extinct since around 400 BCE. The Old Assyrian texts were produced by Assyrian merchants between 1890 and 1860 BCE in Northern Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia. Old Assyrian, as well as most other East Semitic varieties, had a ventive (or cislocative) marker ...
Added: December 23, 2023
Nurullin R., Вестник древней истории 2023 Т. 83 № 2 С. 274–297
This paper deals with a passage from an Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablet (the Meissner–Millard tablet). The paper attempts at a poetic analysis of the passage and addresses the question of its possible foreign origin within the Epic of Gilgamesh. ...
Added: June 26, 2023
Berzon E., Maksim Kalinin, Sergey Koval et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 2 P. 391–402
This paper offers an interpretation of an insufficiently understood verb form in the Neo-Babylonian letter OIP 114, 17:8, 29, thereby clarifying its contents. The word in question is shown to be an Aramaic verb form. This interpretation is supported by observations on the orthography and phonology of early Neo-Babylonian. It follows from the study that ...
Added: April 6, 2023
Arkhipov I., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 1 P. 1–17
The Akkadian expression lā watar (lā matar) appears in two dozen Old Babylonian letters, in Standard Babylonian lexical lists and, arguably, in an Old Babylonian mathematical text and in an Old Assyrian letter. Though the expression has been known since the early twentieth century, it has never been an object of a special study. Commentaries in the ...
Added: March 4, 2023