The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadan : : A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation / / Fokelien Kootstra.

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 a...

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Superior document:Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Series ; Volume 110
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill nv,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; Volume 110.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Copyright Page / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Sigla and Abbreviations / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Acknowledgements / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Introduction / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 1 The Oasis of Dadan in Space and Time / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 2 Script and Manners of Inscribing / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 3 Genres and Compositional Formulae / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 4 Orthography and Phonology / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 5 Verbal Morphology / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 6 Nominal and Pronominal Morphology / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 7 A Quantitative Approach to Variation / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Chapter 8 Analysis / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Conclusions / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Back Matter
  • Glossary / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Bibliography / Fokelien Kootstra
  • Index of Inscriptions / Fokelien Kootstra.