The shape of script : how and why writing systems change
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Houston, Stephen D.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Santa Fe, N.M. :
School for Advanced Research Press,
2012.
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xxiii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
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| ISBN: | 1-934691-42-9 9781934691427 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cuneiform: Changes and Developments / Niek Veldhuis
- Scripts, High Culture, and Administration in Middle Kingdom Egypt / John Baines
- Paragrams, Punctuation, and System in Ancient Roman Script / John Bodel
- Stability and Change in Arabic Script / Beatrice Gruendler
- Some Principles and Patterns of Script Change / Richard Salomon
- Script Change in Bronze Age China / Kyle Steinke
- The Development of Writing in Japan / David B. Lurie
- Maya Writing: Modified, Transformed / Stephen D. Houston
- The Shape of Script in a Colonial Context: Alphabetic and Pictorial Registers in Mixtec Texts / John Monaghan
- Trends and Transitions in the History of Written Numerals / Stephen Chrisomalis.
