This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of
grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing …

Summary Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse
family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, ie form-meaning …

The Arabic script has a set of optional diacritics (taškīl) that primarily indicate short vowels.
These diacritics are used to varying extents, giving a form of orthographic variation …

In essence, typologies of writing systems seek to classify the world's diverse writing systems
in principled ways. However, against backdrops of early, misguided assumptions (Gelb …

Typographic mimicry is the wrapping of writing in a “foreign dress,” ie the use of typefaces in
which one's script (eg Latin) is made to visually resemble a different script (eg Chinese) with …

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, and includes
a synthesis of research findings relating to reading in the non-Roman alphabet. This, in turn …

This contribution discusses variation in orthography on a standard language level as a
semiotic practice of extra-lingual exclusion and intra-lingual stylistic differentiation in a South …

Since their coinage a quarter-century ago, the terms abugida and alphasyllabary (Bright
1999; Daniels & Bright 1996) have revolutionised our conceptualisation of writing systems …

Written culture in high and late medieval Scandinavia is characterized by a long and
complex relationship between the Latin written tradition and the older native runic one. One …

Our paper focuses on the standardisation of Võro, the most spoken and cultivated South
Estonian language. According to the 2021 census, there are ca 100,000 Võro and Seto …