Proceedings of the 53th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale: Vol. 1: Language in the Ancient Near East (2 parts)

The Second Half Of The Proceedings, City Administration In The Ancient Near East, Is Available Here. A Workshop Volume Is Available Here.in July 2007, The 53rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (the Annual Meeting Of The International Association Of Assyriologists) Was Held In Moscow And St. Petersburg, Russia. In Moscow, Several Hundred Assyriologists Enjoyed The Hospitality Of The Russian State University For The Humanities. Dozens Of Papers On The Topic Language In The Ancient Near East, Were Delivered At The University. More Than 50 Of Those Papers Are Published In This 2-volume Set. On The Genesis Of The Category Of Aspect/tense In Hurro-urartian, Sumerian And Elamite / M. Khachikyan -- Les Deux Stèles De Rusa Iii... / M. Salvini -- Zum Namen Der Göttin Kataḫsipuri ... / O. Soysal -- On The Sounds Rendered By The S-, Š- And Ṣ/z- Series In Elamite / J. Tavernier -- Purḫu : Assembly As A Political Institution In Enūma Eliš / V. Bartash -- On The Early History Of Melammu / V.v. Emelianov -- The Assumed Human Origin Of Divine Dumuzi / J. Klein -- Foreign Languages And Hegemony / M.b. Dick -- Cognate Patterns In Ancient Hebrew Poetry / B.a. Levine -- Where Angels Fearlessly Tread : Mari Insights On Genesis 19 / J.m. Sasson -- The Old Babylonian Text Corpus Project / L. Pecha, F. Rahman -- The Project Duplicazione E Rinascita : Cataloguing Of Objects And Texts In Cuneiform Preserved In The Iraq Museum, Baghdad / S. Tikka, S. Viaggio. Pt. 2. Sumerian Compound Verbs / M. Civil -- The Ssumerian Verbal Prefixes Imm-ma And Im-mi / P. Delnero -- Argument Structure Of Sumerian Verbs Ii / F. Karahashi -- The Case Of Sumerian Cases / G. Zólyomi -- Amorite Names ... / V. Golinets -- The Recycling Of The T -- Infix In Pre-historuic Akkadian / N.j.c. Kouwenberg -- Innovations In The Neo-babylonian Lexicon / M.p. Streck -- I-ba-aš-šu-u Vs. I-ba-aš-šu From Old To Neo-babylonian / M. Worthington -- Conditional Structures In The Old Babylonian Omens / E. Cohen -- Oblique Core Arguments In Akkadian / C.w. Hess -- Morphosyntactic Structure Of The Premises In The Neo-babylonian Laws / G.h. Kaplan -- Akkadian Sentences About The Present Time / S. Loesov -- The Enclytic Particle -mi ... / N. Wasserman -- Akkadian Written By Egyptian Scribes ... / Z. Cchavi-rainey -- The Second Glosses In The Lexical Lists From Emar / Y. Cohen -- Was Akkadian Spoken In Emar? / J. Ikeda -- The Hybrid Language Written By Canaanite Scribes ... / A.f. Rainey -- Peripheral Akkadian Dialects, Or, Akkadography Of Local Languages? / E. Von Dassow -- Zu Den Sogenannten Wurzelerweiterungen Des Hurritischen / M. Giogieri -- The Alignement Of Hattian / P.m. Goedgebuure -- New Observations On Urartian Vocabulary / N.v. Haroutyounyan -- Hurritisch Und Syntaktische Ergativität / J. Hazenbos Pt. 1. Sumerian / C. Wilcke -- Prä-akkadische / W. Sommerfeld -- Notes On The Plural Bases In Sumerian / W. Mori -- Sumerian, A Uralic Language / S. Parpola -- Proleptic Pronouns In Middle Hittite / A. Sideltsev -- Das Problem Der Phonetischen Interpretation Der Anlautenden Scriptio Plena In Keilschriftluwischen / Zs. Simon -- Die Wurzelsstruktur Im Semitischen / E. Vernet I Pons -- Early Lexical Lists Revisited / K. Wagensonner -- Similes In The Gilgamesh Epic / B.r. Foster -- The Sign Of The Flood And He Language Of Signs In Baylonian Omen Literature / A.r. George -- You Recite The Incantation I Am A Pure Man / C. Jean -- Le Langage Figuré Dans Les Lettres Paléo-assyriens / C. Michel -- Structural Analysis Of Enmerkara And The Lord Of Arata / C. Mittermayer -- Ištar, Goddess Of War, Pacifier Of Kings / I. Zsolnay -- Les Véhicules Terrestres Dans Les Textes De Mari I / I. Arkhipov -- Le Cochon Dans Les Listes Lexicales / B. Lion, C. Michel -- The Qersu In Neo-assyrian Cultic Setting / N. May -- Über Spiegel, Bronze Ausdilmun In Altsumerischer Zeit / R. Oreschko -- Périphérique Ou Local? / H. Reculeau. Edited By L. Kogan ... [et Al.]. Text In English, French, And German. English