Original sentence: In cuneiform texts of Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite languages, many nouns are preceded by a Sumerian word acting as a determinative; this specifies that the associated word belongs to a particular semantic group.In transliterations, the determinatives are commonly written in superscript, usually in capitals
Edited sentence: In cuneiform texts of Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite languages, many nouns are preceded or followed by a Sumerian word acting as a determinative; this specifies that the associated word belongs to a particular semantic group.In transliterations of Sumerian, the determinatives are  written in superscript in lower case