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.
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Published by Akademisk Forlag, the standard Danish academic press, Marie-Louise Thomsen's standard scholarly grammar, peer reviewed university-level Assyriology. NotesScholarly introduction to the history and grammatical structure of the Sumerian language.
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AuthorMarie-Louise Thomsen
PublisherAkademisk Forlag
Publication Year1984
Source TypeBook (scholarly)
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