TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 0.1 Purpose and scope -- 0.2 Organization -- 1. THE CORPUS -- 1.1 The language -- 1.2 Dialects -- 2. THE WRITING SYSTEM -- 2.0 Preliminary statement -- 2.1 The script -- 2.2 Elements of the transliteration system -- 2.3 Changes in writing habits -- 2.4 Problems caused by the writing system -- 3. PHONOLOGY -- 3.0 Basic assumptions -- 3.1 Phonemes -- 3.2 Stress -- 3.3 Distinctive feature analysis -- 4. PHONOTACTICS -- 4.0 Questions to be treated -- 4.1 Vocalic and consonantal length -- 4.2 Sequence of two vowels -- 4.3 Consonant clusters -- 4.4 Resolving of clusters -- 5. MORPHOLOGY -- 5.0 Morphemes -- 5.1 Morphophonemic alternations -- 5.2 Inflectional classes -- 5.3 The noun -- 5.4 The verb -- 5.5 Pronouns -- 5.6 Derivation -- 5.7 Indeclinables -- 5.8 Clitics -- 5.9 Concord -- 6. MORPHOPHONEMIC ALTERNATIONS -- 6.0 Isolating morphophonemic change -- 6.1 Consonants for which morphophonemic change may be documented -- 6.2 Non-morphophonemic changes -- 7.0 Environments that determine alternants -- 7.1 Before the gender suffix {t} -- 7.2 Before terminal juncture -- 7.3 Bound form -- 7. PHONOTACTIC ALTERNATIONS -- APPENDIX -- 1. A generative statement of the case inflection -- 2. A generative statement of the inflected verb -- GLOSSARY OF AKKADIAN FORMS -- GLOSSARY OF SELECTED LINGUISTIC TERMS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.