LINGUIST List 17.482

Tue Feb 14 2006

Qs: Discourse Styles; Affricates in Akkadian, Sumerian

Editor for this issue: James Rider <riderlinguistlist.org>


Directory         1.    Jeffrey Gross, Classification of Discourse Styles
        2.    Vladimir Naydenov, Affricates in Akkadian and Sumerian


Message 1: Classification of Discourse Styles
Date: 13-Feb-2006
From: Jeffrey Gross <jmgross1gmail.com>
Subject: Classification of Discourse Styles


For an effort to tag styles of discourse in broadcast communication (e.g., news reports, talk radio, podcasts), can anyone point me to a list of descriptive terminology (e.g., ''discursive'', ''argumentative'', ''halting'', ''chatty'', ''interrupting'', etc.) or any other classification system?

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis Sociolinguistics
Message 2: Affricates in Akkadian and Sumerian
Date: 13-Feb-2006
From: Vladimir Naydenov <sanggigmenyahoo.com>
Subject: Affricates in Akkadian and Sumerian



Perhaps my question is a bit specialized, but I didn't know where else to ask it; if there happens to be an Assyriologist around here, perhaps he/she can answer it.

Just how established is nowadays the theory that some or all of the so-called fricatives in Akkadian and Sumerian (above all ''sh'' with hacek :)) were in fact affricates? I'd like to know to what extent it is accepted in the Assyriological community.

Best regards, Vladimir Naydenov

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Phonology