Abstract:Ziel der folgenden Untersuchung ist, eine Grundlage für die Beschäftigung mit der Farbge bung frühzeitlicher Hieroglyphen zu erstellen'. Schriftzeichen werden durch einen Kontrast zwischen Schriftträger und Schreibmaterial deutlich gemacht. In der 0.1. Dynastie wurde dieser Kontrast durch Reliefierung, Einritzung oder Beschriftung mit Tusche erzielt. Bei der Technik der Einritzung konnte eine einfarbige Paste, die in die Vertiefungen des Schriftträgers gefüllt wurde, den Kontrast verstärken. Bei der Beschriftu… Show more
“…A somewhat similar, though rare, phenomenon can be observed in some cases in the very early Egyptian script. For example, the word nbi “swim” is written with the pictorial logogram , and in the earliest examples from the Archaic Period, the man clearly swims in the water (Kahl, 1994: 430, note 64). Somewhat later, we see the tendency to extract the image of the man and he may be shown above the water (after Regulski, 2010: 336–337), creating a kind of an Egyptian SS : “man” + “water pool” = “swim.” In the Pyramid Texts (a few hundred years later), the logogram of the swimming man in the water is kept, but it functions already as a repeater classifier for a phonetic part that precedes it.…”
Section: Chinese and Egyptian—three Comparative Notes On Sign Functio...mentioning
This article explores the role of unpronounced semantic classifiers, also known as graphemic classifiers or determinatives, in three ancient complex scripts: Egyptian, Chinese and Sumerian. These classifiers are silent hieroglyphs, Chinese characters or cuneiform signs that are combined with other signs that carry phonetic information to form a complete written representation of a word. While these classifiers are written and visible, they are not pronounced. They add silent, motivated semantic information related to the meaning of the word. These classifiers can be found in various positions within words, reflecting cultural and referential information. Classifier studies, in general, have gained significant interest at the intersection of linguistic typology, cognitive linguistics, semiotics of scripts and neuroscience. The research field examines classifiers in oral languages, signed languages and complex scripts, emphasizing that regardless of modality they reflect a shared cognitive effort to organize knowledge. It is our hope that the scholarly contributions in this issue will open up a new chapter in classifier studies and in comparative script analysis. Theoretical and analytical work undertaken in the last few decades has been done primarily by individual researchers specializing in one language or script. Our approach combines large-scale corpus data with comparative script analysis carried out by teams of collaborators who can contribute specialized expertise in different ancient writing systems. The research possibilities opened by our newly developed digital tool iClassifier are presented in detail in the other contributions in this issue. This work has laid a strong comparative foundation that we can now build on, to develop new insights into the early history of script development and the commonalities and differences among ancient cultural conceptualizations of the world.
“…A somewhat similar, though rare, phenomenon can be observed in some cases in the very early Egyptian script. For example, the word nbi “swim” is written with the pictorial logogram , and in the earliest examples from the Archaic Period, the man clearly swims in the water (Kahl, 1994: 430, note 64). Somewhat later, we see the tendency to extract the image of the man and he may be shown above the water (after Regulski, 2010: 336–337), creating a kind of an Egyptian SS : “man” + “water pool” = “swim.” In the Pyramid Texts (a few hundred years later), the logogram of the swimming man in the water is kept, but it functions already as a repeater classifier for a phonetic part that precedes it.…”
Section: Chinese and Egyptian—three Comparative Notes On Sign Functio...mentioning
This article explores the role of unpronounced semantic classifiers, also known as graphemic classifiers or determinatives, in three ancient complex scripts: Egyptian, Chinese and Sumerian. These classifiers are silent hieroglyphs, Chinese characters or cuneiform signs that are combined with other signs that carry phonetic information to form a complete written representation of a word. While these classifiers are written and visible, they are not pronounced. They add silent, motivated semantic information related to the meaning of the word. These classifiers can be found in various positions within words, reflecting cultural and referential information. Classifier studies, in general, have gained significant interest at the intersection of linguistic typology, cognitive linguistics, semiotics of scripts and neuroscience. The research field examines classifiers in oral languages, signed languages and complex scripts, emphasizing that regardless of modality they reflect a shared cognitive effort to organize knowledge. It is our hope that the scholarly contributions in this issue will open up a new chapter in classifier studies and in comparative script analysis. Theoretical and analytical work undertaken in the last few decades has been done primarily by individual researchers specializing in one language or script. Our approach combines large-scale corpus data with comparative script analysis carried out by teams of collaborators who can contribute specialized expertise in different ancient writing systems. The research possibilities opened by our newly developed digital tool iClassifier are presented in detail in the other contributions in this issue. This work has laid a strong comparative foundation that we can now build on, to develop new insights into the early history of script development and the commonalities and differences among ancient cultural conceptualizations of the world.
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