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
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Online Zugang: open access
Inhaltsangabe:
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  • 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.