Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
Introduction
Writing Systems - Second edition - Geoffrey Sampson
Geoffrey Sampson [+]
University of South Africa
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor Emeritus at Sussex University and a Research Fellow in the Linguistics Department at the University of South Africa. His most recent book is Grammar Without Grammaticality (2014, with Anna Babarczy).
Description
The author explains the scope and rationale underlying the second edition of his book. The premise of the book being that the study of writing systems should be treated as a standard branch of linguistics. The structure of the book is laid out -- organized around a series of 7 case studies.