Akkadian is a cover term for the Semitic languages of ancient
Mesopotamia, constituting the eastern branch of the Semitic
family. Akkadian, the most ancient Semitic linguistic continuum
attested, was written in the cuneiform script, mainly on clay
tablets. It is attested from the third millennium BCE to the
third century CE. Linguistic research of Akkadian has been
relatively scanty, and grammatical descriptions of any of the
attested languages and dialects were intended primarily for
didactic purposes. Research has concentrated on phonology, and,
especially, on morphology, which is typically Semitic. Syntactic
structures have remained The grammatical description offered in
LW/M is based on the language of mythological narratives from
the Old Babylonian period (the first half of the second
millennium BCE). Considering the state of the art and the frame
and goals of this series, the authors have confined themselves
to a brief model of the language and to defining the basic
linguistic strategies of Akkadian. As