Akkadocentric

comparative more Akkadocentric · superlative most Akkadocentric

1. rareEmphasizing Akkadian (e.g. in interpreting Sumerian or reconstructing Proto-Semitic).

   Only a few scholars professing a manifestly Akkadocentric approach to the [Proto-Semitic] reconstruction dared to advocate the originality of the Akkadian picture […]

   2015, Leonid Kogan, Genealogical Classification of Semitic, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 60

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   The two main distorting factors are the ethnocentric approach and the Akkadocentric approach. […] By the Akkadocentric approach I mean the procedure that stops the semantic investigation of a Sumerian word as soon as its Akkadian equivalent is determined.

   1976, M. Civil, “Lexicography”, in Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 142