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Sinography : the borrowing and adaptation of the Chinese script
- Title
- Sinography : the borrowing and adaptation of the Chinese script / by Zev Handel.
- Author
- Handel, Zev J. (Zev Joseph)
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 369 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: Cross-linguistic Perspectives of the Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated methods of script adaptation. This comparative study reveals the universal principles at work in the borrowing of logographic scripts. By analyzing and explaining these principles, Handel advances our understanding of how early writing systems have functioned and spread, providing a new framework that can be applied to the history of scripts beyond East Asia, such as Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform."--
- Series Statement
- Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; volume 1
- Uniform Title
- Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; v. 1.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- Chinese writing -- Korean -- Vietnamese -- Japanese -- Comparative analysis -- Other languages: Zhuang, Khitan, Jurchen -- Beyond the sinographosphere: Sumerian and Akkadian -- Conclusion: script adaptation, linguistic typology, and cognitive universals.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-890
- ISBN
- 9789004386327
- 9004386327
- 9789004352223 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018054506
- OCLC
- 1066186000
- Author
- Handel, Zev J. (Zev Joseph), author.
- Title
- Sinography : the borrowing and adaptation of the Chinese script / by Zev Handel.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; volume 1Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; v. 1.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Handel, Zev J. (Zev Joseph). Sinography. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019] 9789004352223 (DLC) 2018058042
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-890