Peter T. Daniels
List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter T. Daniels is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1387-6732 | E‑ISSN 1570‑6001
2025 Review of Gnanadesikan (2025): The Writing Revolution: Cuneiform to the Internet Written Language & Literacy 28:2, pp. 328–349 | Review
2023 When is non-writing writing? or, When is writing non-writing? Written Language & Literacy 26:2, pp. 188–237 | Article
It was easy to say that writing was invented out of nothing three times (that we can be sure of), in Sumer, China, and Mesoamerica. That syllables were important in those inventions emerged from attention to modern inventions of writing. But in recent years, specialists in Mesopotamian and… read more
2021 Hebrew script for Jewish languages: A unique phenomenon Written Language & Literacy 24:1, pp. 149–165 | Article
That “script follows religion” is well known. Missionary activities by Christian, Manichaean and Islamic, and Buddhist and Hindu proselytizers brought literacy, in alphabetic, abjadic, and abugidic scripts respectively, to previously non-literate communities in Europe, Asia and Africa, and South… read more
2012 The Native Syriac Linguistic Tradition: Resources Ancient and Modern Historiographia Linguistica 39:2/3, pp. 327–340 | Article
The native Syriac linguistic tradition comprises annotations to the biblical text (‘masorah’), lexica, and grammars created between the 6th and 13th centuries; 24 Syriac scholars are known by name. Syriac grammarians have been considered to be mere imitators, of both Greek and Arab grammarians,… read more
2010 Chomsky 1951a and Chomsky 1951b Chomskyan (R)evolutions, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 169–214 | Article
The December 1951 version of Morphophonemics of Modern Hebrew that has been available to scholars since its publication in 1979 is very different from the original M.A. thesis accepted six months earlier. To assess the importance of this work to the history of linguistics, a number of factors… read more
2009 Two notes on terminology Writing Systems and Linguistic Structure, Lee, Sang-Oak (ed.), pp. 277–281 | Article
2006 On beyond alphabets Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness, Neef, Martin and Guido Nottbusch (eds.), pp. 7–24 | Article
Scripts are often borrowed or adapted for writing new languages, and the borrowing language usually includes sounds not found in the source language. Mechanisms for accommodating new sounds or phonotactics have not been studied as a group before, and a wide variety of cases is considered here.… read more
1999 Some Semitic Phonological Considerations on the Sibilants of the Greek Alphabet Written Language & Literacy 2:1, pp. 57–61 | Article
A recent reinterpretation of the phonetics of the sibilant phonemes in Semitic makes it unnecessary to hunt for "explanations" of the apparent failure of Greek sibilant letters to correspond in value with their Phoenician counterparts.
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1998 Review of Gary Miller (1994): Ancient scripts and phonological knowledge Written Language & Literacy 1:1, pp. 141–147 | Review
1992 The syllabic origin of writing and the segmental origin of the alphabet The Linguistics of Literacy, Downing, Pamela A., Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 83–110 | Article