Language Use, Literacy, and Bilingualism

Depauw, Mark

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“…It then matters which language is acceptable in the domain of official governmental dealings and business. For Egypt, Depauw (2012) hypothesises that the Egyptian everyday language and script were denied this status already in the Roman period using the example of the stele of Cornelius Gallus (29 BC), which shows inscriptions in Greek, Latin and Hieroglyphs but not in Demotic. The traditional hieroglyphs were only used to broadcast Roman accommodation to Egyptian culture.…”

Section: Socio-linguistic Circumstancesmentioning

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The missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle

Fendel

2021

WL&L

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Past research approached the origins of the Coptic alphabet sociolinguistically and empirically. Neither can fully explain the comparatively sudden and fundamental change from a supraphonemic to a phonemic writing system for Egyptian around the second century AD. This paper adds the cognitive-linguistic concept of the grain size of a writing system to the picture. In essence, by the second century, sound changes in Egyptian had resulted in a phonological structure of the language that mapped more easily onto a phonemic writing system than previous stages of the language. This coincided with socio-political developments favouring the Greek alphabet. As a result, multiple writing systems, which shared the underlying structure, alphabetic, and model, the Greek alphabet, emerged. Eventually, one of these prevailed, the Coptic alphabet.

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The missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle

Fendel

2021

WL&L

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“…A substantial group of Demotic docu-For a recent survey of the use of written documents in this and earlier periods, see Eyre (2013). For more details, see Depauw (2012). ments are contracts, mainly on sheets of papyrus but also on potsherds (the so-called ostraca).…”

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Außergerichtliche Konfliktlösung in der Antike. Beispiele aus drei Jahrtausenden

Pfeifer¹,

Grotkamp²

2017

Global Perspectives on Legal History

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“…Vol. 139 65 2009;Depauw 2012). All three aspects taken together hint upon Coptic being able to sustain its status in a multilingual setting (Matras 2009: chap.…”

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Papers on Ancient Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL9) 30 August – 1 September 2018, Helsinki

Vierros¹,

Leiwo²,

Dahlgren³

2021

Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum

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This volume is a collection of twenty-nine papers that had their preliminary presentation at the 9th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL9) that took place in Helsinki 28 August – 1 September, 2018. Thus they show exciting new lines of research in the field of Ancient Greek linguistics, where many approaches take advantage of current linguistic methods and theories. The Helsinki colloquium had two themes: 1) Language contact between Greek and other languages and 2) Linguistic research on original documents and manuscripts. The majority of the papers in this volume focus on these themes, many of them on both. However, Ancient Greek linguistic research from all angles, synchronically as well as diachronically studied, was welcomed. Consequently, all levels and many topics regarding language analysis – morphology, syntax, modality discourse analysis, semantics as well as pragmatics - were presented in the contributions by scholars ranging from those beginning their academic careers ro those with already well established names in the field.

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Language Use, Literacy, and Bilingualism

Cited by 23 publications

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The missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle

The missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle

Außergerichtliche Konfliktlösung in der Antike. Beispiele aus drei Jahrtausenden

Papers on Ancient Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL9) 30 August – 1 September 2018, Helsinki

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