A Grammar of Neo-Assyrian

“新亚述语语法”项目的目的有两个：a)新亚述语的参考语法，基于新亚述语书信、法律和行政文件、条约和预言的语料库，可追溯到公元前9-7年。参考文献的全面收集将导致对新亚述语的拼写、音系学、词法和句法的描述。语法将基本上是同步的。然而，由于新阿斯里亚语文本是在250年的时间段内为人所知，“同步”一词的含义比现有语言的定义更广泛，文本语料库中的方言和时间差异将被考虑在内。这一参考语法将主要服务于古代近东学者，作为解释和翻译文本的工具。b)确定新亚述语在亚述语历史上的地位，从更广泛的角度来看，定义阿卡德语。这需要追溯从(旧亚述和中世纪)亚述到新亚述的主要发展路线。DFG项目“Mittelassyrische Gramatik”的结果将在这方面特别有用，该项目在2018年De Ridder专著“中亚述描述性语法”中有描述。重点还将放在传播于新亚述王国的亚拉姆语的影响上。最后一点是与新巴比伦语言的接触，以及新亚述和新巴比伦是否以及如何相互影响的问题。本结束语将特别介绍对历史语言学感兴趣的古代近东学者和闪语学家。

The purpose of the project “Neo-Assyrian Grammar” is twofold:a) A reference grammar of Neo-Assyrian, based on the corpus of Neo-Assyrian letters, legal and administrative documents, treaties and prophecies dating to the 9.–7th c. BC. A comprehensive collection of references will lead to a description of the orthography, phonology, morphology and syntax of Neo-Assyrian. The grammar will be basically synchronic. However, since Neo-Assrian texts are known throughout a period of 250 years, the term “synchronic” is meant in a broader definition than used for living languages, and dialectal as well as chronological differences within the text corpus will be considered. This reference grammar will mainly serve Ancient Near Eastern scholars as a tool in the interpretation and translation of texts.b) Defining the position of Neo-Assyrian within the history of the Assyrian language and, in a wider perspective, Akkadian language. This entails to trace the major lines of development from (Old and) Middle Assyrian to Neo-Assyrian. The results of the DFG project “Mittelassyrische Grammatik”, which are described in the monograph de Ridder 2018 “A Descriptive Grammar of Middle Assyrian” will be especially useful in this respect. Focus will also be laid on the influence of the Aramaic language, which spread in the Neo-Assyrian kingdom. A last point is the contact with the Neo-Babylonian language and the question if and how Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian influenced each other. This concluding chapter will especially address Ancient Near Eastern scholars and Semitists interested in historical linguistics.