Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation

Pt. I. Preliminary Chapters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Is Sentential Complementation? -- 3. Akkadian -- Pt. Ii. Structural History: The Emergence Of Complementizers And Quotatives -- 4. The Emergence Of Finite Complements -- 5. The Grammaticalization Of The Quotative Construction -- Pt. Iii. Functional History: The Changes In The Functional Domain Of Complementation From 2500 B.c. To 500 B.c. -- 6. The Functional Domain Of Complementation In Babylonian -- 7. Verbs Of Knowledge, Perception, And Others -- 8. Manipulation And Modality -- 9. The Wh-functional Domain, Direct And Indirect Questions -- Pt. Iv. The Development Of Complementation As An Adaptive Process -- 10. Functional Parallels For The Babylonian Development -- 11. The Development Of Complementation As An Adaptive Process. Guy Deutscher. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [188]-195) And Indexes.