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Fokelien Kootstra

The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān

A Description and Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Variation

Fokelien Kootstra

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English
Brill
22 December 2022
Palaeography (history of writing)
Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
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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Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   110
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 27mm
Weight:   696g
ISBN:   9789004512627
ISBN 10:   9004512624
Series:   Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
Pages:   342
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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