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Stress in Neo-Assyrian Dialect | ||
| Athar al-rafedain | ||
| Article 12, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2025, Pages 221-232 PDF (1.3 M) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.33899/aa.2025.153616.1094 | ||
| Author | ||
| john nicolas bosket* | ||
| Trinity College Cambridge | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In this short article I show how Neo-Assyrian scribes in most cases wrote the nominative and accusative singular forms of dēnu as de-e-nu, but only rarely inserted an -e- when the same word in the genitive singular case was followed by the possessive suffix -šu, normally writing ina de-ni-šú. From this I deduce that the addition of the suffix placed stress on the preceding syllable, without making the i a long vowel as it would be if the form was plural, and removed stress from the ē, without making it a short vowel. This draws attention to the matter of stress, as opposed to vowel length, in Akkadian, and as an Appendix I have included a survey of how the macron as an indication of vowel length is used by Assyriologists. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Assyriology; Neo-Assyrian Period; Syntax; Scribes; Phonetics | ||
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