Smith, Scobie P. P. (Harvard/USA) – Hurrian Orthographic Interference in Nuzi Akkadian: A Computational Comparative Graphemic Analysis

This study is a focused analysis of Hurrian orthographic influences on the language of the Akkadian dialect of Nuzi, particularly in the expression of stop consonants. Texts examined are those known to belong to scribes of the first generation and scribes descending from Apil-Sin and belonging to the second generation. New editions are presented for all Nuzi texts involved. These Nuzi texts are compared against Hurrian material, and OB, MA, and peripheral Akkadian texts are used as reference points for comparison. All these corpora are digitized and analyzed with the aid of computational tools (XML/XSLT, C#, SQL). (See www.infinitiv.com/nuzi.).[table “6” not found /]

More information will be forthcoming at http://www.infinitiv.com/nuzi.
The completed dissertation is obtainable through: http://www.infinitiv.com/hoina.
Date of completion: March 14, 2007.[table “6” not found /]