Middle Assyrian Grammar

该项目旨在将中亚亚述语描述为阿卡迪亚语(巴比伦-亚述语)的一种方言。梅耶尔(1971)关于这一主题的最后一部专著仅基于750篇文献，主要来自中亚王国的心脏地带。从那时起，语料库已经上升到3.000多个文本，许多新的文本来自中亚述王国外围的档案：Dur-Katlimmo，Tall Sabiy Abyad，Tall Huera，Tall Billa，Tall Alli，Tall Fahariya，Tall Rimah，Tall Fray和Giricano。因此，一本新的中亚述语语法可以更详细地描述这种语言。将特别注意在文本材料的400年中发生的中亚亚述语的内部发展，以及语料库内的地理-方言差异。另外两个目标是描述中亚述在从旧亚述到新亚述的亚述语言发展中的地位，以及其他语言对中亚述的可能影响，例如巴比伦中语和胡里亚语，这两种语言都与中亚述有联系，特别是在外围档案中。该项目将在柏林和莱比锡自由大学研究所合作倡议的框架内进行，临时名称为“柏林和莱比锡的Mittelassyrische Forschungen”。由E.Cancik-Kirschbaum教授和M.P.Streck教授领导的这项倡议的目标是为中亚研究提供必要的参考工具。该倡议的基础是现有的和不断扩大的中东亚述已出版和未出版文本数据库。中东亚述文法项目完全有权使用这一数据库，并对其作出贡献，该数据库将是该项目的一个重要工具。这里定义的中亚述语料库可以分为三种主要类型：a)法律和法令b)字母c)法律和行政文件语法将分五章描述：a)正字法b)音素和语素合成)句法)中亚述语在阿卡迪亚语历史上的地位(包括描述接触语言的影响)语法方法和术语遵循传统和现代古代近东和闪族研究中良好的语言学用法。三年的项目有一个模块结构，每个模块侧重于一个文本体裁和一个章节。这使该项目能够在较短的时间内提出连贯的结果。最后，不同的模块将作为专著一起出版。

This project aims to describe Middle Assyrian as a dialect of the Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) language. The last monograph on this topic by Mayer (1971) is only based on 750 texts mainly from the heartland of the Middle Assyrian kingdom. Since then the corpus has risen to over 3.000 texts, and many of the new texts stem from archives from the periphery of the Middle Assyrian kingdom: Dur-Katlimmu, Tall Sabiy Abyad, Tall Huera, Tall Billa, Tall Alli, Tall Fahariya, Tall Rimah, Tall Fray and Giricano. Therefore, a new grammar of Middle Assyrian can offer a much more detailed description of the language. Special attention will be paid on the internal development of Middle Assyrian that took place in the 400 years of the textual material, as well as on the geographical-dialectal differences within the corpus. Two further goals are to describe the position of Middle Assyrian within the development of the Assyrian language from Old Assyrian to Neo-Assyrian and the possible influences of other languages on Middle Assyrian, e. g. Middle Babylonian and Hurrian, both in contact with Middle Assyrian, particularly in the periphal archives.The project will take place in the framework of an cooperative initiative of the Institut für Altorientalistik der Freien Universität Berlin und des Altorientalischen Instituts der Universität Leipzig provisionally titled „Mittelassyrische Forschungen in Berlin und Leipzig“. The goal of this initiative headed by Prof. E. Cancik-Kirschbaum and Prof. M. P. Streck is to provide essential reference tools for Middle Assyrian studies. The initiative is based on an already existing and continually expanding database of Middle Assyrian published and unpublished texts. The project Middle Assyrian Grammar has full access to and contributes to this database that will be an essential tool for the project. The Middle Assyrian text corpus as defined here can be divided into three main genres:a) Laws and decreesb) Lettersc) Legal and administrative documentsThe grammar will be described in five chapters:a) Orthographyb) Phonologyc) Morphology and morphosyntaxd) Sentence syntaxe) The position of Middle Assyrian in the history of the Akkadian language (including the description of influences of contact languages)The grammatical method and terminology follow good philological use in traditional and recent Ancient Near Eastern and Semitic studies.The three years project has a modular structure, each modul focusing on one text genre and one chapter. This enables the project to present coherent results already after shorter periods of time. At the end, the different moduls will be published together as a monograph.