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Ten specialists convened at a seminar to address the question of what happens between the origins of a writing system and the time of eventual `script death' or `extinction'. Although scholars are close to conceptualizing the way scripts emerge and pass into obsolescence, they are still far from explaining how scripts maintain themselves over time or how and why they change when they do.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Palaeography (history of writing)

• Full title: Shape of Script
• Subtitle: How and Why Writing Systems Change
• Author: Stephen Houston
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9781934691427
• ISBN: 9781934691427
• ID: 06376238
• Publisher: SAR Press
• Weight: 538 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 154 × 3 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. April 2012

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