The semantics of word division in northwest semitic writing systems : Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite and Greek

1. Verfasser: Crellin, Robert Samuel David , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2022.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource.
Schriftenreihe: Contexts of and relations between early writing systems (Series) 4
ISBN: 1789256771
9781789256772
Schlagworte:
Semitic languages, West > Semantics.
Semitic languages, West > Syllabication.
Langues sémitiques occidentales > Syllabation.
Langues sémitiques occidentales > Sémantique.
Semitic languages, Northwest > Syllabication
Semitic languages > Writing
Semitic languages, Northwest > Semantics
griechisch (Sprache) > Syllabication
Inscriptions, Greek
Online-Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What is a word?
  • 1.2. Why Northwest Semitic and Greek?
  • 1.3. Wordhood in writing systems research
  • 1.4. Linguistic levels of wordhood
  • 1.5. Word division at the syntax-phonology interface
  • 1.6. Previous scholarship
  • 1.7. Method
  • 1.8. Outline
  • pt. I Phoenician
  • 2. Introduction
  • 2.1. Overview
  • 2.2. Literature review
  • 2.3. Corpus
  • 2.4. Linguistic and sociocultural identity of the inscriptions
  • 2.5. Proto-alphabetic
  • 2.6. Shared characteristics of word division
  • 2.7. Divergence in word division practice
  • 3. Prosodic words
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Distribution of word division
  • 3.3. Graphematic weight of function words
  • 3.4. Morphosyntax of univerbated syntagms
  • 3.5. Sandhi assimilation
  • 3.6. Comparison of composition and distribution with prosodic words in Tiberian Hebrew
  • 3.7. Conclusion
  • 4. Prosodic phrase division
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Syntax of univerbated syntagms
  • 4.3. Comparison with prosodic phrases in Tiberian Hebrew
  • 4.4. Syntactic vs. prosodic phrase level analysis
  • 4.5. Verse form
  • 4.6. Conclusion
  • pt. II Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform
  • 5. Introduction
  • 5.1. Overview
  • 5.2. Literature review
  • 5.3. Basic patterns of word division and univerbation
  • 5.4. Exceptions to the basic patterns of word division
  • 5.5. Line division
  • 5.6. Contexts of use
  • 5.7. Textual issues
  • 5.8. Inconsistent nature of univerbation
  • 5.9. Hypothesis: Graphematic words represent actual prosodic words
  • 6. The Ugaritic `Majority' orthography
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Syntagms particularly associated with univerbation
  • 6.3. Univerbation with nouns
  • 6.4. Univerbation with verbs
  • 6.5. Univerbation with suffix pronouns
  • 6.6. Univerbation at clause and phrase boundaries
  • 6.7. Summary
  • 7. Quantitative comparison of Ugaritic and Tiberian Hebrew
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Corpus
  • 7.3. Frequency of occurrence
  • 7.4. Length of phrase
  • 7.5. Quantifying the morphosyntactic collocation of linking features
  • 7.6. Measuring Association Score B for Ugaritic and Tiberian Hebrew
  • 7.7. Visualising morphosyntactic collocation of linking features with MDS
  • 7.8. Conclusion
  • 8. Semantics of word division in the Ugaritic `Majority' orthography: prosodic word or prosodic phrase
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Graphematic wordhood in the Ugaritic `Majority' orthography
  • 8.3. Consistency of the representation of ACTUAL PROSODIC WORDHOOD in Ugaritic
  • 8.4. Univerbation at clause boundaries
  • 8.5. Adoption of the `Majority' orthography outside of literary contexts
  • 9. Separation of prefix clitics
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Literary texts
  • 9.3. Non-literary texts adopting the `Majority' orthography
  • 9.4. Non-literary texts adopting the `Minority' orthography
  • 9.5. Conclusion
  • pt. III Hebrew and Moabite
  • 10. Word division in the consontantal text of the Hebrew Bible
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Morphosyntactic status of graphematic affixes in Tiberian Hebrew
  • 10.3. Morphosyntactic status of graphematic affixes
  • 10.4. Graphematic status of graphematic affixes
  • 10.5. Conclusion
  • 11. Word division in the consonantal Masoretic Text: Minimal prosodic words
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Combining prosody and morphosyntax (Dresher 1994; Dresher 2009)
  • 11.3. Accounting for graphematic wordhood prosodically
  • 11.4. Mah `What?'
  • 11.5. Lo'
  • 11.6. Minimal domains for stress assignment and sandhi
  • 11.7. Conclusion
  • 12. Minimal prosodic words in epigraphic Hebrew and Moabite
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. Siloam Tunnel inscription
  • 12.3. Meshac stelae (KAI 181 and KAI 30)
  • 12.4. Accounting for word division in the Meshac and Siloam inscriptions
  • 12.5. Conclusion
  • 12.6. Conclusion to Part III
  • pt. IV Epigraphic Greek
  • 13. Introduction
  • 13.1. Overview
  • 13.2. Corpus
  • 13.3. Prosodic wordhood in Ancient Greek
  • 13.4. Metre and natural language
  • 13.5. Problems with identifying graphematic words with prosodic words
  • 13.6. Conclusion
  • 14. The pitch accent and prosodic words
  • 14.1. Introduction
  • 14.2. Prosody of postpositives and enclitics
  • 14.3. Prosody of prepositives and `proclitics'
  • 14.4. Conclusion
  • 15. Domains of pitch accent and rhythm
  • 15.1. Introduction
  • 15.2. Challenging the inherited tradition of accentuation
  • 15.3. Pitch accentuation and rhythmic prominence have different domains
  • 15.4. Rhythmic words are canonically trimoraic or greater
  • 15.5. Graphematic words correspond to rhythmic words
  • 15.6. Conclusion
  • 16. Graphematic words with multiple lexicals
  • 16.1. Introduction
  • 16.2. Inconsistency of levels of graphematic representation
  • 16.3. Prosodic subordination of one lexical to another
  • 16.4. Punctuating canonical rhythmic words
  • 16.5. Conclusion
  • 17. Epilogue: The context of word division
  • 17.1. Overview
  • 17.2. Orality and literacy
  • 17.3. Prosodic word level punctuation is a function of the oral performance of texts.

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