Verb-initial order in Akadian language
Neo Babylonian sample
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https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i139.2249Keywords:
Akkadian Languages, Semitic, Syntax, Word order, Verb-initialAbstract
The more we research the Akkadian language, the closer we find it to the Arabic language. And if we know that the Arabic language is one of the richest Semitic languages in its structure, derivations, roots of its verbs, sounds, and syntactic movements, then it is the helper that contains all the characteristics of Semitic languages.
This is research in the field of semantics, and to rhetoric is closer than grammar, as it deals with the structure of the sentence in the Akkadian language, that is, its verbal arrangement, and the method of arranging speech in it. It is self-evident and known in the Akkadian sentence, that is verb-final order, and this is prevalent in it. It is not fair to leave this issue without research and investigation
From this point of view, the research came to focus on presenting the verb in the Akkadian language, following this since the earliest references to its codification in the third millennium BC. With a quick zigzag on the structure of sentences in some Arab languages, after the presentation of the verb in the ancient Babylonian dialect, which is the month of the dialects of the Akkadian language prevailing since the beginning of the second millennium BC. Accordingly, it is necessary to delve into its sentences, and then focus on the modern Babylonian dialect, which has been prevalent in Babylonia since the first half of the first millennium BC; In order to verify the structure of the Akkadian sentence and the arrangement of its elements, and its violation of its sister languages, or its conformity with it in this regard.
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