Variation within and among writing systems: Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents (LautSchriftSprache - ScriptandSound, Band 1) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3954901455 ISBN 13: 9783954901456

Verlag: Reichert Verlag, 2017

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The volume opens a newly founded series devoted to historical graphemics. The research field of graphemics is multidisciplinary and represents a bridge between philology, historical linguistics, epigraphy and semiotics. Historical graphemics deals with changes in writing systems and the alternative adaptations, contaminations and responses by individuals or groups within their cognitive and/or cultural framework.
The present volume, edited by Paola Cotticelli Kurras and Alfredo Rizza, deals with the variation within the systems of writing focusing on various aspects: the metalangue of the discipline, the methods of analysis, the history of writing, its adaptation in the different cultural environment, the orthographic and linguistic policies. The geographic and the chronological coordinates range from the historical alphabets of Europe (from the runes to the Old and Middle English or Old and Middle German traditions and the Old Italian texts) to the hieroglyphic and logosyllabic systems of the Mediterranean (Linear A and B) and the Near East (cuneiform and hieroglyphics in ancient Anatolia). The underlying cultural traditions testify the peculiarity of individual scriptures as an expression of local cultures. Good examples are provided can be found in Ancient Anatolia with the two systems attested in the II mill. b.C. in the Hittite realm (cuneiform and hieroglyphs), and, in the I mill. B.C. with the local alphabets and the challenges they pose for the quest of the origin and spreads of alphabets in the Mediterranean area. This volume also hosts the editio princeps of a new Sidetic inscription. Other interesting examples are to be found during the European Middle Ages, in particular aspects of orthographic variants in Old Icelandic and Old Italian. For the Mycenaeans variations in the administrative texts were characteristic and functional to social and cultural aspects of the time.

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Paola Cotticelli studied in Pavia (I) and in Munich, where she received her PhD. She is full professor for Historical and Indo-European Linguistics and Head of the Center for Foreign Languages at the University of Verona, scientific and editorial board member and author of “Hethitisches Wörterbuch”. Main research fields: comparative syntax and morphology of Indo-European languages, lexicography, Anatolian languages, Ancient Greek, Ancient Lithuanian, Metalanguage and History of concepts in the History of Linguistics and Grammaticography.
She is also head of the “Laboratorio del lessico di linguistica” (www.linguisticslab.org) a research center for metalanguage, writing systems (cuneiform, alphabets, hieroglyphs), and researches on brand names. Recent research projects: „Indogermanische Syntax: der Satz, die Syntax der Nebensätze“ (2014-2022); „Die Syntax des Partizips und konkurrierende Konstruktionen“ financed by the Foundation F. von Thyssen (2014-2016); Syntax of Luvian (Marie Curie Horizon 2020, 2015-2017).

Alfredo Rizza is researcher at the University of Verona. Born in Salò he studied in Pavia and Firenzen and received grants for research at the University of Berkeley, Würzburg and Graz. His interests span from ancient Cultures and Civilizations of the Aegeo-Anatolian Area to contemporary theories of language and semiotics. He is junior professor for General and Historical Linguistics at the University of Verona.

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This volume inaugurates a new series LautSchriftSprache – ScriptandSound, founded by Paola Cotticelli-Kurras (University of Verona, Italy) and Gaby Waxenberger (University of Munich, Germany). It deals with writing systems ranging chronologically from the cuneiform of the II millennium B.C. to present-day alphabets, and geographically from the Middle-East, and the Caucasus to Continental Europe, and the Mediterranean Area. Graphemics is the inspiring research field of the new series and of this volume in particular as a multidisciplinary approach connecting philology, language history, language policies, epigraphy, semiotics, and the newly emerging computational disciplines. Although graphemics is not an independent subject, it certainly deserves its own space among the many scientific approaches to language and culture. Historical graphemics is the special topic of the present volume edited by Paola Cotticelli-Kurras (Verona, Italy) and Alfredo Rizza (Verona, Italy), and describes both common and independent structures of writing systems, which represent cultural products, local knowledge resulting from many traditions throughout time and space. LSS 1 topics include metalinguistic terminologies and concepts, and also the research issue of language contact from the perspective of writing (systems) at all levels.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Reichert Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3954901455
• ISBN 13: 9783954901456
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
• Herausgeber: Cotticelli-Kurras Paola, Rizza Alfredo
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