Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script by Handel

Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004386327)

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Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script by Handel

Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script

$65.00
Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script by Handel

Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script

$65.00
Format: Hardcover
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In the more than 3,000 years since its invention, the Chinese script has been adapted many times to write languages other than Chinese, including Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Zhuang. In Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script, Zev Handel provides a comprehensive analysis of how the structural features of these languages constrained and motivated methods of script adaptation. This comparative study reveals the universal principles at work in the borrowing of logographic scripts. By analyzing and explaining these principles, Handel advances our understanding of how early writing systems have functioned and spread, providing a new framework that can be applied to the history of scripts beyond East Asia, such as Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform.

Author: Zev Handel
ISBN-10: 9004386327
ISBN-13: 9789004386327
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2019
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00d

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Choice 10/01/2019
By Zev Handel
By Zev Handel
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Zev Handel, Ph.D. (1998), University of California at Berkeley, is Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. He works in historical Chinese phonology, Sino-Tibetan linguistics, and East Asian writing systems, and is an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2017).

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