Del 110 - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān

A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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 attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-22
Mått155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt696 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDel 110 i Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
Antal sidor324
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004512627

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List of Figures, Maps and TablesSigla and AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Outline of the Present Work2 The Corpus3 A Holistic Approach to the Epigraphic Object4 Scribal School and Variation1 The Oasis of Dadan in Space and Time1 The Dadanite and Liḥyanite Kingdoms2 Philological Arguments3 Minaean Presence at Dadan4 Paleography5 Dadan in Other Corpora6 Archaeological Evidence7 Summary of the Dating Evidence2 Script and Manners of Inscribing1 Glyphs and Their Variant Forms2 Script Styles3 Dadanitic Alphabetic Text4 Summary: Varying Styles, Varying Forms3 Genres and Compositional Formulae1 Superscriptio2 Narratio3 Invocatio4 Graffiti5 Summary4 Orthography and Phonology1 Word Dividers2 Matres lectionis3 Triphthongs4 Final Short Vowels5 Diphthongs6 Sound Changes5 Verbal Morphology1 Suffix Conjugation2 Prefix Conjugation3 Derived Stems4 Participles6 Nominal and Pronominal Morphology1 Gender2 Number3 Noun Formation4 Demonstrative Pronoun5 Relative Pronoun6 hmḏ7 mh8 mn9 Personal Pronouns10 Prepositions11 Numerals12 Adverbs13 Particles14 Conjunctions7 A Quantitative Approach to Variation1 Methodology: Statistics2 The Data and Methodology8 Analysis1 Text Internal Variants2 Register Indicators3 Important Non-significant Co-occurrences4 Discussion5 SummaryConclusions1 Descriptive and Grammar Chapters2 Chapters Analyzing Variation3 Variation and Literacy4 Future Directions5 SummaryGlossaryBibliographyIndex of Inscriptions