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Analyses of Script
Properties of Characters and Writing Systems, Quantitative Linguistics 63, Quantitative Linguistics [QL] 63
ISBN/EAN: 9783110196412
Umbreit-Nr.: 1048881
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: VIII, 173 S., Num. figs. and tabs.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 15.04.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
- Zusatztext
- This volume presents 12 papers on a new approach to the analysis of writing systems. For the first time, quantitative methods are introduced into this area of research in a systematic way. The individual contributions give an overview about quantitative properties of symbols and of writing systems, introduce methods of analysis, study individual writing systems as used for different languages, set up an explanatory model of phenomena connected to script development/evolution, and give a perspective to a general theory of writing systems.
- Kurztext
- The series Quantitative Linguistics publishes books on all aspects of quantitative methods and models in linguistics, text analysis and related research fields. Specifically, the scope of the series covers the whole spectrum of theoretical and empirical research, ultimately striving for an exact mathematical formulation and empirical testing of hypotheses: observation and description of linguistic data, application of methods and models, discussion of methodological and epistemological issues, modelling of language and text phenomena.
- Autorenportrait
- Gabriel Altmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; Fan Fengxiang, Dalian Maritime University, China.