LOT, 2010. - 776 p.
This grammar has been long in the making. After my graduation in 1988, I wanted to do a PhD
on the grammar of the Old Sumerian texts from Lagash, with the aim to write a synchronic
grammar of a single Sumerian dialect. Help came from many directions. Theo Krispijn shared
with me his lists of verbal forms and his glossary of the Gudea texts. Gebhard Selz was most
generous with manuscripts of Old Sumerian texts editions he was working on. In July 1990 the
first meeting of the Sumerian Grammar Discussion Group took place, to which Jeremy Black
and Joachim Krecher kindly invited me as an interested PhD student. This meeting and those
of the following years were an excellent environment to confront my own developing ideas
with those of scholars who had studied the various problems for dozens of years: Jeremy
Black, Miguel Civil, Dietz Otto Edzard, Daniel Foxvog, Thorkild Jacobsen, Joachim Krecher,
Piotr Michalowski, Claus Wilcke, and Mamoru Yoshikawa.
This grammar has been long in the making. After my graduation in 1988, I wanted to do a PhD
on the grammar of the Old Sumerian texts from Lagash, with the aim to write a synchronic
grammar of a single Sumerian dialect. Help came from many directions. Theo Krispijn shared
with me his lists of verbal forms and his glossary of the Gudea texts. Gebhard Selz was most
generous with manuscripts of Old Sumerian texts editions he was working on. In July 1990 the
first meeting of the Sumerian Grammar Discussion Group took place, to which Jeremy Black
and Joachim Krecher kindly invited me as an interested PhD student. This meeting and those
of the following years were an excellent environment to confront my own developing ideas
with those of scholars who had studied the various problems for dozens of years: Jeremy
Black, Miguel Civil, Dietz Otto Edzard, Daniel Foxvog, Thorkild Jacobsen, Joachim Krecher,
Piotr Michalowski, Claus Wilcke, and Mamoru Yoshikawa.