Semantics of Word Division in Northwest Semitic Writing Systems : : ugaritic, phoenician, hebrew, moabite and greek / / Robert S.D. Crellin.

"Much focus in writing systems research has been on the correspondences on the level of the grapheme/phoneme. Seeking to complement these, this monograph considers the targets of graphic word-level units in natural language, focusing on ancient North West Semitic (NWS) writing systems, principa...

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Superior document:Contexts of and relations between early writing systems ; 4
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Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Oxbow Books,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Contexts of and relations between early writing systems (Series) ; 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • PART I Phoenician inscriptions
  • Chapter 2 Introduction
  • Chapter 3 Prosodic words
  • Chapter 4 Prosodic phrases
  • PART II Ugaritic alphabetic cuneiform
  • Chapter 5 Introduction
  • Chapter 6 The Ugaritic 'Majority' orthography
  • Chapter 7 Quantitative comparison of Ugaritic and Tiberian Hebrew
  • Chapter 8 Semantics of word division and univerbation in the 'Majority' orthography: prosodic word or prosodic phrase?
  • Chapter 9 Separation of prefix clitics
  • PART III Hebrew and Moabite
  • Chapter 10 Word division in the consontantal text of the Hebrew Bible
  • Chapter 11 Word division in the consonantal Masoretic Text: Minimal prosodic words
  • Chapter 12 Minimal prosodic words in epigraphic Hebrew and Moabite
  • PART IV Epigraphic Greek
  • Chapter 13 Introduction
  • Chapter 14 The pitch accent and prosodic words
  • Chapter 15 Domains of pitch accent and rhythm
  • Chapter 16 Graphematic words with multiple lexicals
  • Chapter 17 Epilogue: The context of word division
  • Bibliography.