25-04-2020, 03:18 PM
(25-04-2020, 06:04 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In Timm's system the word structure is hardly addressed, and Rugg's system is actually based on Stolfi's work.
The word structure is addressed in Timm & Schinner 2020, p. 10f: "The rules to modify a source word normally don’t affect the order of the glyphs. This is one reason for the observation that the words in the VMS share the same rigid word structure. Additionally, for a text created by self-citation, it appears as a logical assumption that the scribe also used esthetically motivated design rules for glyph selection, in order to harmonize the overall appearance of the text. These rules specify when two glyphs may
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Keep in mind that the text isn't static! There are always local variations which result in a gradual evolution from Currier language A to B (see Timm & Schinner 2020, p. 9). Therefore it is not possible to explain the text by using some static rules and by trying to explain local variations as exceptions. Instead it is necessary to describe the text as dynamic system that evolves over time!