J. Alan Kemp

List of John Benjamins publications in which J. Alan Kemp is involved.

Title

Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters (2nd rev.ed. London, 1863)

Richard Lepsius (1810–1884)

This new edition of Carl Richard Lepsius’s Standard Alphabet reproduces the text of the second, enlarged, edition of 1863. The extensive Introduction by J. Alan Kemp places it in its historical setting and provides comments on the phonetic basis for the Alphabet and the notation. read more

[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 5] 1981. x, 99, xvii, 336 pp.

Articles

Kemp, J. Alan 1994 Geschichtszahlen der Phonetik; Quellenatlas der Phonetik. By Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia Historiographia Linguistica 21:3, pp. 433–438 | Review

Kemp, J. Alan 1987 The Tekhnē Grammatikē of Dionysius Thrax: English Translation with Introduction and Notes The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period, Taylor, Daniel J. (ed.), pp. 169–190 | Article

Kemp, J. Alan 1986 The Tekhnē Grammatikē of dionysius thrax: Translated into English Historiographia Linguistica 13:2/3, pp. 343–363 | Article

The major part of the text consists of a new translation of the Tekhnē Grammatikē of Dionysius Thrax, with explanatory notes. In the introduction to the translation a brief account is given of the background to the work, including reference to the disputed question of its date and authenticity,… read more