Ancient Languages and Writing Systems in Contact
Brill (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 17. January 2027
Book
Hardback
978-90-04-70718-4 (ISBN)
Description
A pool of renowned international linguists pulled together to perform an ambitious goal: describing language contact as a main trigger for the development of different writing systems in the ancient world. The reader is accordingly led to an imaginary time travel from Greece to Anatolia, from Egypt to Sudan, from Tripolitania to Etruria and Latium searching for the schemes governing the invention or change of writing systems due to language contact.
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Paolo Di Giovine, Sapienza University of Rome, is Full Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. He has published monographs and many articles on Indo-European Linguistics, Vedic, Albanian, Hittite, Romance Linguistics, including Studio sul perfetto indoeuropeo (3 vols., Rome 1990-1996)
Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on Greek, Avestan, Old and Middle Persian, Bactrian, Phrygian, including Towards a Morphosyntax of Old Persian Cases: The Genitive (with F. Pompeo, Hamburg 2020)
Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Sapienza University of Rome, is Full Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on Greek, Middle Persian, Aramaic (Syriac), including Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden 2008)
Artemij Keidan, Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. He has published monographs and articles on Gothic, Sanskrit and Russian, including Linguistica generale e storica (with C. A. Ciancaglini, Milan-Florence 2018)
Flavia Pompeo, Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on Ancient Greek and Old Persian, including La lingua degli antichi Persiani (with M. C. Benvenuto, Milan 2022)
Marianna Pozza, Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on Greek, Latin and Hittite, including La grafia delle occlusive intervocaliche in ittito. Verso una riformulazione della lex Sturtevant (2 vols., Rome 2011)
Maria Carmela Benvenuto, Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on Greek, Avestan, Old and Middle Persian, Bactrian, Phrygian, including Towards a Morphosyntax of Old Persian Cases: The Genitive (with F. Pompeo, Hamburg 2020)
Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Sapienza University of Rome, is Full Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on Greek, Middle Persian, Aramaic (Syriac), including Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Wiesbaden 2008)
Artemij Keidan, Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. He has published monographs and articles on Gothic, Sanskrit and Russian, including Linguistica generale e storica (with C. A. Ciancaglini, Milan-Florence 2018)
Flavia Pompeo, Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on Ancient Greek and Old Persian, including La lingua degli antichi Persiani (with M. C. Benvenuto, Milan 2022)
Marianna Pozza, Sapienza University of Rome, is Associate Professor of Historical and General Linguistics at that University. She has published monographs and articles on Greek, Latin and Hittite, including La grafia delle occlusive intervocaliche in ittito. Verso una riformulazione della lex Sturtevant (2 vols., Rome 2011)