Palaeography (History of Writing)

Die traditionelle Annahme, dass die Schriftsprache direkt von der gesprochenen Sprache abgeleitet ist, hat sich in jüngerer Forschung als problemat...

Journey back in time 3,800 years to Nippur, a city in ancient Babylonia, as a girl sets out on a quest to become a scribe. Follow along as Inanaka ...

Perfect for self-study or classroom learners, this Farsi language book takes a user-friendly approach.Farsi for Beginners is a complete language co...

This is the ideal workbook for anyone who wants to learn to write the Korean Hangul script! It contains a basic introduction to the alphabet and al...

This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of writing systems, in Oxford in March 2004. While the in...

This long-awaited translation of Johannes Pedersen's Danish work Den Arabiske Bog (1946) describes in vivid detail the production of books in medie...

The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and on...

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Prima...

The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the ...

An investigation into the hugely significant works produced by the Worcester foundation at a period of turmoil and change. From the mid-eleventh t...

This long-awaited translation of Johannes Pedersen's Danish work Den Arabiske Bog (1946) describes in vivid detail the production of books in medie...

First full-scale examination of the phenomenon of the English Vernacular minuscule, analysing the full corpus and giving an account of its history ...

A fresh interpretation of an enigmatic illumination and its contexts. The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript of uncertain prove...

Contemporary Japanese is a textbook series for beginning students of Japanese at the college or high school level. It is intended for classroom use...

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writin...

This book tackles the linguistically unique and notoriously difficult BA construction in Chinese, covering its linguistic properties and acquisitio...