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This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variation of the Dadanitic inscriptions. It combines a thorough description of the language of the inscriptions with a statistical analysis of the distribution of variation across different textual genres and manners of inscribing. By considering correlations between language-internal and extralinguistic features this analysis aims to take a more holistic approach to the epigraphic object. Through this approach an image of a rich writing culture emerges, in which we can see innovation as well as the deliberate use of archaic linguistic features in more formal text types.

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Author:   Fokelien Kootstra
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   110
Weight:   0.696kg
ISBN:  

9789004512627

ISBN 10:   9004512624
Pages:   324
Publication Date:   22 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures, Maps and Tables Sigla and Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction  1 Outline of the Present Work  2 The Corpus  3 A Holistic Approach to the Epigraphic Object  4 Scribal School and Variation 1 The Oasis of Dadan in Space and Time  1 The Dadanite and Liḥyanite Kingdoms  2 Philological Arguments  3 Minaean Presence at Dadan  4 Paleography  5 Dadan in Other Corpora  6 Archaeological Evidence  7 Summary of the Dating Evidence 2 Script and Manners of Inscribing  1 Glyphs and Their Variant Forms  2 Script Styles  3 Dadanitic Alphabetic Text  4 Summary: Varying Styles, Varying Forms 3 Genres and Compositional Formulae  1 Superscriptio  2 Narratio  3 Invocatio  4 Graffiti  5 Summary 4 Orthography and Phonology  1 Word Dividers  2 Matres lectionis  3 Triphthongs  4 Final Short Vowels  5 Diphthongs  6 Sound Changes 5 Verbal Morphology  1 Suffix Conjugation  2 Prefix Conjugation  3 Derived Stems  4 Participles 6 Nominal and Pronominal Morphology  1 Gender  2 Number  3 Noun Formation  4 Demonstrative Pronoun  5 Relative Pronoun  6 hmḏ  7 mh  8 mn  9 Personal Pronouns  10 Prepositions  11 Numerals  12 Adverbs  13 Particles  14 Conjunctions 7 A Quantitative Approach to Variation  1 Methodology: Statistics  2 The Data and Methodology 8 Analysis  1 Text Internal Variants  2 Register Indicators  3 Important Non-significant Co-occurrences  4 Discussion  5 Summary Conclusions  1 Descriptive and Grammar Chapters  2 Chapters Analyzing Variation  3 Variation and Literacy  4 Future Directions  5 Summary Glossary Bibliography Index of Inscriptions

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Fokelien Kootstra obtained her Ph.D. from Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 2019 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University, Belgium. She has published on the epigraphic traditions of pre-Islamic North Arabia (Taymāʾ and al-ʿUlā). Her most recent work focuses on the language and writing culture of the early Arabic papyri.

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