Sprachgeschichte

Formelhaftigkeit in Text und Bild

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This volume comprises interdisciplinary papers on different subjects in the field of the humanities, which were read at a workshop of the same name at the University of Trier in 2008. For the first time, the papers focus on the …

Writing and Orthography in non-literary Texts from Roman Britain

A Sociolinguistic Approach

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The analysis of orthographic variation and the writing habit presented in this book represented a heuristic tool for the study of the sociolinguistic scenario of Roman Britain, sketching the different micro-histories of Latinization according to a new, ground-breaking, perspective. As …

Wege zur Konfiguration der Zeichen-Phonem-Beziehung

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Dieser Sammelband ist der dritte der Graphematik-Buchreihe LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound. Er enthält Beiträge der Graphematik-Tagung an der LMU München im November 2018.
Außer zwei theoretischen Abhandlungen, die eine einheitlichere Terminologie für Beschreibung und Analyse von Verschriftungsprozessen entwickeln, liegt der Blickwinkel auf …

Von den Hieroglyphen zur Internetsprache: Das Verhältnis von Schrift, Laut und Sprache

From Hieroglyphs to Internet Language: The Relation of Script, Sound and Language

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The contributions concentrate on the spelling of some Indo-European languages and the relation of writing and pronunciation; in particular they deal with: (I) the use of cuneiform letters in Hittite and of hieroglyphs in Luvian; (II) writing systems and phonological …

Variation within and among writing systems

Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents

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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 metalanguage of the discipline, the methods of analysis, the history of writing, its adaptation in …

Studien zur Verwendung der Lokalpartikeln im Mykenischen

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The ‘Studies on the use of local particles in Mycenaean Greek’ close a gap in the analysis of the Mycenaean Greek language. The book offers the first comprehensive analysis of this special part of the lexicon in Mycenaean Greek. The …

Mystique, langage, musique : dire l’indicible au Moyen Âge

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Music has long since occupied a privileged place in mystical tradition: chants induce ecstasy, visions are accompanied by auditory perception, and above all the mystical vocabulary is shaped by metaphors, allegories and descriptions from the field of music. In this …