- Peter T. Daniels
Peter T. Daniels (born
December 11 ,1951 , currently living in New Jersey) is a scholar ofwriting system s, specializing in . He was co-editor (withWilliam Bright ) of the book "The World's Writing Systems " (1996), and he introduced the terms "abjad " (an "alphabet" with no vowel letters) and "abugida " (a system partlyalphabet ic, partly syllabic) as modern linguistic terms for categories of scripts. (These terms had been used previously in a more restricted sense by specialists in the fields of theArabic alphabet andGe'ez script , from which languages they were borrowed respectively.)Education
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Cornell University : linguistics
*University of Chicago Teaching
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
*Chicago State University Bibliography
*2006. On beyond alphabets. In Script Adjustment and Phonological Awareness, edited by Martin Neef and Guido Nottbusch. Written Language & Literacy. 9(1): 7–24. ISSN: 1387-6732
*1997 Classical Syriac phonology. In Phonologies of Asia and Africa, edited by Kaye. Eisenbrauns, Warsaw, IN.
*1997 The Protean Arabic Abjad. In Fs. George Krotkoff. Eisenbrauns, Warsaw, IN.
*1997 Surveys of languages of the world. In Fs. William Bright. de Gruyter.
*1996 The World's Writing Systems (with William Bright). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0
*1995 translation: Gotthelf Bergsträsser. Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text specimens and grammatical sketches. Second edition. Eisenbrauns, Warsaw, IN. ISBN: 0-931464-10-2
*1994 An overlooked ethological datum bearing on the evolution of human language. In LACUS Forum 1994. Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.
*1993 Linguistics in the American library classification systems. In LACUS Forum 1993. Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.
*1992 The Syllabic Origin of Writing and the Segmental Origin of the Alphabet. In Linguistics of Literacy, edited by Downing, Lima, and Noonan. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
*1991 Ha, La, Ha or Hoi, Lawe, Haut: The Ethiopic letter names. In Fs. Wolf Leslau. Arrassowitz.
*1991 Is a structural grammatology possible? In LACUS Forum 1991. Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.
*1990 Fundamentals of grammatology. Journal of the American Orient Society.
*1983 translation: Gotthelf Bergsträsser. Introduction to the Semitic Languages: Text specimens and grammatical sketches. Eisenbrauns, Warsaw, IN.
*translation: Pierre Briant. From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns, Warsaw, IN.External links
* [http://www1.elsevier.com/homepage/sal/ell2/daniels.html Peter T. Daniels at "elsevier.com"]
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