LINGUIST List 17.1246

Tue Apr 25 2006

Qs: Orthography Research Questionnaire

Editor for this issue: James Rider <riderlinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Christopher Moseley, Orthography Research Questionnaire

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Message 1: Orthography Research Questionnaire
Date: 23-Apr-2006
From: Christopher Moseley <chrismoseley50yahoo.com>
Subject: Orthography Research Questionnaire


I am currently embarking on a Ph.D. thesis in linguistics at UniversityCollege, London. My subject is ''Alphabet Adaptation'' - the adaptation ofthe Roman and Cyrillic alphabets to established written languages in thepast, and the creation of orthographies for previously unwritten languagesin the present. I'm keen to make contact with field-workers and linguistswho have experience of, or are currently working on, devising suchorthographies (even if they are not Roman-based). I have devised a detailedquestionnaire on the problems and considerations involved in orthographycreation, and I would like to send it to any linguist who would like toparticipate. All responses will be gratefully acknowledged, of course.

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems