Object's details: The Development of Graphic Representation in Abugida Writing: The Akshara’s Grammar

Provider:Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

Description

Title:
The Development of Graphic Representation in Abugida Writing: The Akshara’s Grammar
Creator:
Fedorova, Liudmila
Description:
Phonological writing systems can use different modes in the arrangement of phonological information: linear or emblematic. The latter presupposes a two-dimensional composition of graphic elements which convey information of different levels: basic phonological units or their secondary features. Abugida is one of the most perfect modes of writing, using a two-dimensional principle of organization in its graphemes. Indian scripts imply forms of abugida, based on aksharas - orthographic syllables - as main graphemes, with their vocalization marked by sub-graphemes. Their complex forms reveal hierarchical structures representing phonological structures. Thus, “the akshara’s grammar” may be described, with its paradigms of shapes and meanings, their organization in space, their modes of conjunction. The functional characteristics of diacritic types and ligatures can be specified. The graphic shapes of the akshara can be represented as forming a “grammar” comparable to morphological structures. The graphic complexity of writing can then be estimated in typological perspective. This paper is an attempt to describe such a grammar.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Prawa autorskie (c) 2013 Liudmila Fedorova;
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Date:
2013.12.01
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
English
Source:
Lingua Posnaniensis; Vol. 55 No. 2; 49-66;
Lingua Posnaniensis; Tom 55 Nr 2; 49-66;
2083-6090
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/linpo/article/view/linpo-2013-0013/28336
Subject:
Writing systems;
abugida;
Indian scripts;
akshara-formation;
complexity of writing
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/linpo/article/view/linpo-2013-0013
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

Similar objects

The Development of Graphic Representation in Abugida Writing: The Akshara’s Grammar

Creator:Fedorova, Liudmila

Date:2013.12.01

Type:text

‘An English Monstrosity’? Evolution and Reception of Manx Orthography

Creator:Lewin, Christopher

Date:2020.12.01

Type:other

Book Review: Tomasz Kamusella, "Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe". Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022, 289 pp. ISBN: 978-963-386-417-3

Creator:Olszewska, Izabela

Date:2022.12.21

Type:text

The relationships between the average semester growth rates of lexical sophistication in L2 English writing at secondary school: A learner corpus analysis

Creator:ROKOSZEWSKA, KATARZYNA

Date:2021.07.01

Type:text

Monitoring the writing process in a foreign language. An analysis of pauses from the perspective of the Dynamic Systems Theory

Creator:Kowal, Iwona

Date:2024.09.23

Type:text

The The correlations between the average semester growth rates of syntactic and lexical complexity in L2 writing development at secondary school

Creator:Rokoszewska, Katarzyna

Date:2024.09.23

Type:text

Jan Baudouin de Courtenay's theory of the grapheme

Creator:Ruszkiewicz, Piotr (1946- )

Type:text

Can I use it?:seek permission

The Dictionary Writing System Lexit and Its Application in Bilingual Lexicography

Creator:Koeva, Svetla | Blagoeva, Diana

Date:2015.06.21

Type:text

Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych

Object's details: The Development of Graphic Representation in Abugida Writing: The Akshara’s Grammar

Description

Similar objects