TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Lincke, Eliese-Sophia
A1  - Kutscher, Silvia
ED  - Grossman, Eitan
ED  - Polis, Stéphane
ED  - Winand, Jean
T1  - Motivated sign formation in Hieroglyphic Egyptian and German Sign Language (DGS). Towards a typology of iconic signs in visual linguistic systems
T2  - Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian
N2  - 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.
T3  - Lingua Aegyptia : Studia monographica - 9 
KW  - Ägyptisch
KW  - Hieroglyphe
KW  - Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS)
KW  - Zeichensprache
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-34334
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-34334
SP  - 113
EP  - 140
PB  - Widmaier
CY  - Hamburg
ER  -