Download or read book Syntactic Change in Akkadian written by Guy Deutscher and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2000 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language spoken in Assyria and Babylonia, is one of the earliest known languages, with a surviving written history from 2500BC to 500BC. Guy Deutscher investigates its development over these two millennia. He shows that changes in the language can be linked to the emergence of complex patterns of communication required by an increasingly sophisticated civilization.