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1. Title Title of document Origins and Characteristics - An Exploration of Writing
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Peter Daniels; Independent Scholar; United States
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Language; Linguistics
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) I.J. Gelb; A Study of Writing; writing systems; diffusion of writing; Egyptian; West Semitic; Greek; Florian Coulmas
 
5. Subject Subject classification Writing Systems
 
6. Description Abstract Chapter 11 is where the author sets forth the overall view of writing that they have developed on the basis of the highly varied data presented in the first eight chapters, as well as features that characterize all writing systems and so are better treated together rather than atomistically. In this chapter are found what the author believes to be explanations for the wide variety seen in the world’s writing systems that have usually been interpreted as evidence that writing system development has been haphazard. The older, misguided view was summarized by Florian Coulmas: “The history of writing, therefore, cannot rely much on universal tendencies, but has to investigate the spread and transmutation of every script in its own right” (Writing Systems [2003], 208).
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 15-Feb-2018
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/30872
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.30872
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; An Exploration of Writing
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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