The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadan A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation

This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kootstra, Fokelien, 1988- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv [2023]
Edición:First edition
Colección:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 110.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009758531306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Copyright Page / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Sigla and Abbreviations / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Acknowledgements / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Introduction / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 1 The Oasis of Dadan in Space and Time / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 2 Script and Manners of Inscribing / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 3 Genres and Compositional Formulae / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 4 Orthography and Phonology / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 5 Verbal Morphology / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 6 Nominal and Pronominal Morphology / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 7 A Quantitative Approach to Variation / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 8 Analysis / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Conclusions / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Back Matter
  • Glossary / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Bibliography / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Index of Inscriptions / Fokelien Kootstra.