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1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Cambridge classical studies
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cypro-minoan: The Cypro-Minoan corpus -- Defining Cypro-Minoan and establishing the corpus -- Decipherment attempts -- The chronological and geographical distribution of Cypro-Minoan -- Epigraphic analysis -- The categorisation of the script(s) -- The origins of Cypro-Minoan -- Sign values -- The language(s) of the Cypro-Minoan inscriptions -- Lexicology and syntax -- Morphology -- Phonology -- Onomastics -- Linguistic affinities -- Cypro-Minoan in context -- The spread of Cypro-Minoan literacy -- The population of late bronze age Cyprus -- Cypro-Minoan case study: the Opheltau inscription -- Eteocypriot: The Eteocypriot corpus -- Early scholarship on Eteocypriot -- Defining Eteocypriot and establishing the corpus -- The chronological and geographical distribution of Eteocypriot -- The Eteocypriot language -- Lexicology -- Morphology -- Phonology -- Onomastics -- Linguistic affinities -- Eteocypriot in context: Eteocypriot at Amathus -- Eteocypriot case study: the Amathus bilingual -- Phoenician: Tthe Cypriot Phoenician corpus -- The chronological distribution of Cypriot Phoenician -- The geographical distribution of Cypriot Phoenician -- Dialectal features -- Phoenician in contact -- Bilingual inscriptions -- Loanwords -- Onomastics -- Phoenician in context: Phoenician at Kition -- Phoenician case study: Baal of Lebanon bronze bowl -- Inscriptions. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Inscriptions, Cypro-Minoan.
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Phoenician language -- Cyprus.
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Inscriptions, Phoenician -- Cyprus.
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Cyprus -- Languages.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steele, Philippa M. Linguistic history of ancient Cyprus : the non-Greek languages and their relations with Greek, c. 1600-300 BC. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 xx, 279 pages Cambridge classical studies 9781107042865 (DLC) 2013035750 |
| ISBN |
9781107042865 (alk. paper) |
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9781107504011 (electronic bk.) |
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