Motivated sign formation in Hieroglyphic Egyptian and German Sign Language (DGS). Towards a typology of iconic signs in visual linguistic systems
- 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.
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| Author: | Eliese-Sophia Lincke, Silvia Kutscher |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-34334 |
| Parent Title (English): | Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian |
| Series (Serial Number): | Lingua Aegyptia : Studia monographica (9) |
| Publisher: | Widmaier |
| Place of publication: | Hamburg |
| Editor: | Eitan Grossman, Stéphane Polis, Jean Winand |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/01/28 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsche Gebärdensprache (DGS); Hieroglyphe; Zeichensprache; Ägyptisch |
| First Page: | 113 |
| Last Page: | 140 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 490 Andere Sprachen |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semiotik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |