{"product_id":"the-writing-culture-of-ancient-dadan-a-description-and-quantitative-analysis-of-linguistic-variation-9789004512627","title":"The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān: A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures, Maps and Tables  Sigla and Abbreviations  Acknowledgements    Introduction   1 Outline of the Present Work   2 The Corpus   3 A Holistic Approach to the Epigraphic Object   4 Scribal School and Variation    1 The Oasis of Dadan in Space and Time   1 The Dadanite and Liḥyanite Kingdoms   2 Philological Arguments   3 Minaean Presence at Dadan   4 Paleography   5 Dadan in Other Corpora   6 Archaeological Evidence   7 Summary of the Dating Evidence    2 Script and Manners of Inscribing   1 Glyphs and Their Variant Forms   2 Script Styles   3 Dadanitic Alphabetic Text   4 Summary: Varying Styles, Varying Forms    3 Genres and Compositional Formulae   1 Superscriptio   2 Narratio   3 Invocatio   4 Graffiti   5 Summary    4 Orthography and Phonology   1 Word Dividers   2 Matres lectionis   3 Triphthongs   4 Final Short Vowels   5 Diphthongs   6 Sound Changes    5 Verbal Morphology   1 Suffix Conjugation   2 Prefix Conjugation   3 Derived Stems   4 Participles    6 Nominal and Pronominal Morphology   1 Gender   2 Number   3 Noun Formation   4 Demonstrative Pronoun   5 Relative Pronoun   6 hmḏ   7 mh   8 mn   9 Personal Pronouns   10 Prepositions   11 Numerals   12 Adverbs   13 Particles   14 Conjunctions    7 A Quantitative Approach to Variation   1 Methodology: Statistics   2 The Data and Methodology    8 Analysis   1 Text Internal Variants   2 Register Indicators   3 Important Non-significant Co-occurrences   4 Discussion   5 Summary    Conclusions   1 Descriptive and Grammar Chapters   2 Chapters Analyzing Variation   3 Variation and Literacy   4 Future Directions   5 Summary    Glossary  Bibliography  Index of Inscriptions","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210841809239,"sku":"9789004512627","price":119.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-writing-culture-of-ancient-dadan-a-description-and-quantitative-analysis-of-linguistic-variation-9789004512627","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}