Filling in the Facts
This article explores the use of <CV-V> sign sequences ( plene writing ) in Hieroglyphic Luwian. It is argued that the vowel signs in these sequences are frequently used as space-fillers in almost all texts dateable to the Iron Age. Space-filling explains the presence of many vowel signs commo...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | German |
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De Gruyter
2017
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Altorientalische Forschungen
Year: 2017, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 235-260 |
Further subjects: | B
Luwian
B plene writing B hieroglyphs B Orthography |
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Summary: | This article explores the use of <CV-V> sign sequences ( plene writing ) in Hieroglyphic Luwian. It is argued that the vowel signs in these sequences are frequently used as space-fillers in almost all texts dateable to the Iron Age. Space-filling explains the presence of many vowel signs commonly taken as linguistically void, and a new transliteration method is proposed to mark these space-fillers in a uniform way. It is also shown that many vowel signs cannot have been used as space-fillers. Rather, these signs are linguistically significant and bound to express a phonetic feature. On a methodological level, this article considers how we can meaningfully distinguish space-fillers from linguistically real plene writing, as both were not marked differently by the scribes. The last section examines space-fillers in greater detail: their chronological distribution and vowel quality are treated, as are some conspicuous and rare types of space-filling. |
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ISSN: | 2196-6761 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Altorientalische Forschungen
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/aofo-2017-0020 |