Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
A logographic system: Chinese writing
Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Sampson [+]
University of South Africa
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor Emeritus at Sussex University and a Research Fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of South Africa. His most recent book is Grammar Without Grammaticality (2014, with Anna Babarczy).
Description
This chapter explores one of the most pervasive of all the world's systems of writing -- Chinese script -- in which graphs stand not for a unit of pronunciation but for a morpheme, the minimal meaningful unit of the language.