RT Book
T1 A companion to ancient Near Eastern languages
T2 Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser.
A2 Hasselbach, Rebecca
LA English
PP Hoboken
PB Wiley Blackwell
YR 2020
ED First edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1693079380
AB Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- PART I WRITING SYSTEMS -- Chapter One The Decipherment of Ancient Near Eastern Languages -- Introduction -- Types of Decipherment -- Processes in Decipherment -- Accounts of Decipherment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Two The Emergence of Cuneiform Writing -- Introduction -- The Context of Proto-Cuneiform, Its Precursors and Origins -- The Archaic Text Corpus and Cuneiform Script Characteristics -- Structural Organization and Sign Types -- Relationship with Sumerian -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Three The Development of Egyptian Writing in the Fourth and Early Third Millennium bce -- Introduction -- Working Definition of Script and its Relation to Other Graphic Communication Systems -- The Rebus Principle and the Phoneticization of Pictures -- Radical Phoneticization in Graphophonic Writing: Mono-Consonantal Signs -- Developmental Stages of the Early Script in the Nile Valley - a Historical Sketch of the First 500 Years -- The Egyptian Script and its Relation to the Visual Mode of Gestural Communication -- The Question of Language Versus Languages: Multilingualism in the Nile Valley in the Fourth Millennium bce and the Question of the Correlation Between Language - Culture - State(s): -- Standardization and Formalization -- Abandoned Innovations, Removal of Cultural Residue, Breaks in Traditions -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Four The Emergence of Alphabetic Scripts -- The Earliest Evidence for the Alphabet and its Iconic Models in Egyptian -- The Broader Usage of Early Alphabetic in the Second Millennium -- The Inventors of the Alphabet: Elite Semites Familiar with the Egyptian Writing System -- The Transition from Early Alphabetic to Phoenician: The Center and the Periphery.
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
SN 9781119193807
K1 Extinct languages-Middle East
K1 Electronic books
K1 Aufsatzsammlung