Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Written Language and Literacy
Volume Number: 26
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: 05/08/2024

Subtitle: Special Issue: On the Systematic Nature of Writing Systems

Main Text:

2023. v, 153 pp.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

On the systematic nature of writing systems
David Mora-Marín & Lynne Cahill
pp. 1–4

ARTICLES

A proposal for a formalized, expandable approach to the taxonomy of writing systems
Sven Osterkamp & Gordian Schreiber
pp. 5–29

More matters of typology: Alphasyllabaries, abugidas and related vowelled segmentaries
Arvind Iyengar
pp. 30–56

Chaos or system? Reassessing the unique case of the Japanese writing system
Terry Joyce & Hisashi Masuda
pp. 57–75

Koineization and the Pamphylian alphabet: Instability and compromise
Eleonora Selvi
pp. 76–95

Latin < XS >: Seeing double
Rosso Manuel Senesi
pp. 96–130

The standardisation of spelling in Middle English: The case of said
Lynne Cahill
pp. 131–153

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
General Linguistics