ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF FIGURES ABBREVIATIONS A. Bibliographical abbreviations B. Other abbreviations and symbols 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 What is a loanword? 1.2 Definitions of other key terms 1.3 Previous research on Aramaic loanwords in Akkadian 1.4 The purpose and scope of the present study 1.

5 Material of the study 1.6 The methods used in identifying Aramaic loanwords 1.6.1 Phonological criteria 1.6.2 Morphological criterion 1.6.3 Semantic criterion 1.

6.4 Source words 1.6.5 Chronology 1.6.6 Distribution of the words 1.6.7 Criteria used in rejecting some previous proposals 1.

6.8 Utilizing later forms of Aramaic in this study 1.7 A short account of the developmental phases of Akkadian 1.8 A short account of the developmental phases of Aramaic 1.9 Evidence of the use of Aramaic in Assyria proper 1.9.1 Textual evidence 1.9.

2 Visual evidence 1.10 The scheme of presentation of data 2 ANALYSIS OF LOAN HYPOTHESES 2.1 Analysis of the proposed Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 2.2 Rejected proposals of Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 3 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 3.1 Summary 3.2 Conclusions 3.2.1 The proposed Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 3.

2.2 The provenance, origin, genre and date of Neo-Assyrian texts with confirmed Aramaic loanwords 3.2.3 Semantic distribution of the confirmed Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 3.2.4 Distribution of the confirmed Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian according to part of speech 3.2.5 Phonological analysis of the certain Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 3.

2.6 Morphological analysis of the certain Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian 3.2.7 Frequency of the certain Aramaic loanwords in Neo-Assyrian texts 3.3 Avenues for further research BIBLIOGRAPHY INDICES.