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For introduction to the history of the discipline, see https://www.4banks.net/4b/history-d.htm.
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1. Decypherment and decoding
1855-66 Hincks, Oppert, Menant, Rawlinson
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3. Consolidation (coming into its own)
1910 Ungnad - insight, OB, syntax.
“Shyness”: mass of material, appearance of dialects.
Bohl, Dhorme on Amarna.
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4. The philological build-up
Berkooz, Gordon on Nuzi.
Labat on Boghaz-koi.
Studies on topics: Stamm 1939.
1952 Von Soden - reference grammar, faces materials, dialects.
Dialectal grammars as philological lists of forms sorted according to von Soden.
Unevenness of treatment: either just abnormal forms, or all forsm, see e. g. Salonen.
Simplistic use of terms: “phoneme ” to mean phonetic realization (De Meyer).
“Descriptive ” to mean philological filling-in of established slots (e. g. Finet).
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5. Linguistic re-thinking
1939 Stamm as semiotics.
1951 Gelb.
1966 Reiner – experimentation with linguistics, perhaps too experimental.
1969 Gelb.
General linguists begin to use Akkadian, e.g. Anderson 1980.
More room in general Semitics for Akkadian, e.g. Kurilowicz.
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Most recent dialectal grammars as proper linguisticstudies: Huehnergard, Groeneberg.
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