A companion to ancient Near Eastern languages
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 -- Accoun...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Hoboken
Wiley Blackwell
[2020]
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| В: | Год: 2020 |
| Обзоры: | [Rezension von: A companion to ancient Near Eastern languages] (2021) (Noonan, Benjamin J.)
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| Редактирование: | First edition |
| Серии журналов/журналы: | Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser.
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| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Alter Orient
/ Язык (речь, мотив)
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| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Extinct languages-Middle East
B Сборник статей B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Не электронный вид
Erscheint auch als: 9781119193296 |
| Итог: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 111919380X |