Publications

2012
Yue Hui Ting and Bond, Francis . 2012. Comparing Classifier Use In Chinese And Japanese. In Proceedings Of The 26Th Pacific Asia Conference On Language, Information, And Computation, Pp. 264–271.
Eliese-Sophia Lincke and Kammerzell, Frank . 2012. Egyptian Classifiers At The Interface Of Lexical � Semantics And Pragmatics. In Lexical Semantics In Ancient Egyptian., Pp. 55-112. Hamburg: Widmaier.
In Spoken Egyptian, the form of a linguistic sign is restricted by rules of root structure and consonant compatibility as well as word-formation patterns. Hieroglyphic Egyptian, however, displays additional principles of sign formation. Iconicity is one of the crucial features of a part of its sign inventory. In this article, hieroglyphic iconicity will be investigated by means of a preliminary comparative typology originally developed for German Sign Language (Kutscher 2010). The authors argue that patterns found in Egyptian hieroglyphic sign formation are systematically comparable to patterns of German Sign Language (DGS). These patterns determine what types of lexical meaning can be inferred from iconic linguistic signs.
Orly Goldwasser and Grinevald, Colette . 2012. What Are Determinatives Good For?. In Lexical Semantics In Ancient Egyptian., Pp. 17-53. Hamburg: Widmaier.