Palaeography

A fun and helpful resource for anyone interested in learning some Thaiwhether you're 5 or 100!

The first comprehensive treatment of the languages and scripts of Cyprus, from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period.

Explore Korean Culture Through Bilingual FolktalesBuild Language Skills as You Read!

An enjoyable and effective way to learn Japanese kanji!

This volume presents 12 papers on a new approach to the analysis of writing systems.

This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the first Sino-Tibetan language to be reduced to writing.

This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.

On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition's History and Pedagogy tells the stories of composition's techno-history, from the roads of the ancient world, which allowed students to travel to school, to the audio-visual aids that populate the classrooms of the modern world.

Many of the world's languages permit or require clause-initial positioning of the primary predicate, potentially alongside some or all of its dependents.

A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them.

Learn to read, write, and speak everyday Japanese with manga stories!

Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life.

Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires.

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When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it became notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives.

By comparing English, Spanish and Chinese, this book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics can address issues in language description.

The history of formal calligraphy has been thoroughly documented, and the demise of what people see as beautiful handwriting is frequently deplored, but the details of the teaching of this skill during this century have gone almost unrecorded.

An authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.

The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today.

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the Germanic family (apart from runic inscriptions), dating to the fourth century.

Learn the basics of the Thai language quickly with this essential book!

This volume presents a series of reflections on modes of communication in the Bronze Age Aegean, drawing on papers presented at two round table workshops of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology on ‘Technologies of Representation’ and ‘Writing and Non-Writing in the Bronze Age Aegean’.

A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton.

An interdisciplinary treatment of syllabic writing in ancient Cyprus and an invaluable resource for anyone studying Cypriot epigraphy or archaeology.

Francis Lodwick FRS (1619-94) was a prosperous merchant, bibliophile, writer, thinker, and member of the Royal Society.

This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems.

This workbook is designed for use with the Elementary Mandarin Chinese Textbook and offers a wealth of carefully-designed practice activities to help you solidify every aspect of your Chinese skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

This book traces the history of language technology from writing - the first technology specifically designed for language - to digital speech and other contemporary language systems.

Much focus in research on alphabetic writing systems has been on correspondences between graphemes and phonemes.

Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the actual people who produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents.

The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous proportions.

This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions.

Learn the Mandarin Chinese characters and words in everyday use in China!

Ground-breaking analysis of the Linear B undeciphered signs shedding light on the writing system and the activities of its writers.

A complete beginning language course for Modern Standard Arabic!

This book provides an introduction to the Meroitic language and writing system.

Die Elite der Frühen Neuzeit in Inschriften des Basler MünstersAbgesehen von einzelnen Ausnahmen sind die rund 120 lateinischen Grabinschriftenin den Kreuzgängen des Basler Münsters bislang nicht übersetzt worden und bleibendaher vielen, die vor ihnen verweilen und sie mit Neugier betrachten, auch aufgrundzahlreicher Abkürzungen unverständlich.

Der systematische Erwerb von Kenntnissen im Umgang mit Quellen in jüdischen Sprachen ist im Wissenschaftsbetrieb ein Desideratum.

Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.