Excerpt from An Essay on Assyriology Gesenius in his Grammar (see second English edition, pp. 3, sums up the characteristics of the Semitic languages under two heads, dealing (1) with the grammatical structure, and (2) with the lexicography. We shall proceed to apply his canons to our language, and we shall thus find out how far we are justified in calling Assyrian a Semitic language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.