The Sumerian Language: An Introduction to Its History and Grammatical Structure

Marie-Louise Thomsen was a Sumerologist, and this Akademisk Forlag book is her scholarly introduction to the history and grammatical structure of the Sumerian language. Its strength is that it remains a widely used standard reference for Sumerian grammar within the field, written by a recognized specialist and drawing on the cuneiform textual corpus directly. Its limit is its age relative to a still developing field: Sumerology has continued to refine its understanding of the language since 1984, so a claim needing the most current grammatical analysis should be checked against more recent Sumerological scholarship alongside this standard introduction.