Nicolas Tranter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolas Tranter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Tranter |
| SIGNATURE | TRANTER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Logography and layering: A functional cross-linguistic analysis
This paper proposes a way in which the semantographic/ phonographic dichotomy recognised as fundamental in logographic (or morphosyllabic) writing systems in East Asia, the ancient Middle East, and Mesoamerica can be systematised to transcend the very different scholarly traditions in each region in order to allow valid and more meaningful cross-linguistic comparisons. A totally functional analysis with a focus on synchronic words as they occur i…
Graphic loans: East Asia and beyond
The national languages of East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) have made extensive use of a type of linguistic borrowing sometimes referred to as a 'graphic loan'. Such loans have no place in the conventional classification of loans based on Haugen (1950) or Weinreich (1953), and research on loan word theory and phonology generally overlooks them. The classic East Asian phenomenon is discussed and a framework is proposed to descri…
Nonconventional script choice in Japan
The complexity and plurality of scripts and writing devices, such as auxiliary text or "ruby," used in nonconventional writing in Japan are outlined, and various aspects, such as the use of loan scripts, are shown to parallel aspects of spoken language contact. The complexity of Japanese writing overall is attributed to "indirect" language contact with languages encountered predominantly in written form, especially Literary Chinese in the past an…
The phonology of English loan-words in Korean
It is generally accepted that the processes whereby loanwords are “copied” to the target language's phonology are fundamentally different from language-internal sound changes. Unlike language-internal sound changes, which occur when the speakers responsible are fully capable of the phonology of the input “source” and the sound changes occur across the entire lexicon, loans tend to be ad hoc, show inconsistent correspondences, and need only meet w…
Hybrid Anglo-Japanese loans in Korean
The paper discusses, categorizes, and explains the phenomenon of "hybrid" \nloans in Korean, whereby a loan-word reflects the phonology/morphology \nof not one but two languages simultaneously. One well-known form of \nhybrid loan is that of the great number of Sino-Japanese neologisms that, \nthrough Korea and Japans shared use of Chinese characters, have been \ncopied orthographically but not phonetically into Korean. In addition, many \nof the…
The phonology of English loan-words in Korean
It is generally accepted that the processes whereby loanwords are “copied” to the target language's phonology are fundamentally different from language-internal sound changes. Unlike language-internal sound changes, which occur when the speakers responsible are fully capable of the phonology of the input “source” and the sound changes occur across the entire lexicon, loans tend to be ad hoc, show inconsistent correspondences, and need only meet w…
Hybrid Anglo-Japanese loans in Korean
The paper discusses, categorizes, and explains the phenomenon of "hybrid" \nloans in Korean, whereby a loan-word reflects the phonology/morphology \nof not one but two languages simultaneously. One well-known form of \nhybrid loan is that of the great number of Sino-Japanese neologisms that, \nthrough Korea and Japans shared use of Chinese characters, have been \ncopied orthographically but not phonetically into Korean. In addition, many \nof the…
Logography and layering: A functional cross-linguistic analysis
This paper proposes a way in which the semantographic/ phonographic dichotomy recognised as fundamental in logographic (or morphosyllabic) writing systems in East Asia, the ancient Middle East, and Mesoamerica can be systematised to transcend the very different scholarly traditions in each region in order to allow valid and more meaningful cross-linguistic comparisons. A totally functional analysis with a focus on synchronic words as they occur i…
Nonconventional script choice in Japan
The complexity and plurality of scripts and writing devices, such as auxiliary text or "ruby," used in nonconventional writing in Japan are outlined, and various aspects, such as the use of loan scripts, are shown to parallel aspects of spoken language contact. The complexity of Japanese writing overall is attributed to "indirect" language contact with languages encountered predominantly in written form, especially Literary Chinese in the past an…
Graphic loans: East Asia and beyond
The national languages of East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) have made extensive use of a type of linguistic borrowing sometimes referred to as a 'graphic loan'. Such loans have no place in the conventional classification of loans based on Haugen (1950) or Weinreich (1953), and research on loan word theory and phonology generally overlooks them. The classic East Asian phenomenon is discussed and a framework is proposed to descri…
Hybrid Anglo-Japanese loans in Korean
The paper discusses, categorizes, and explains the phenomenon of "hybrid" \nloans in Korean, whereby a loan-word reflects the phonology/morphology \nof not one but two languages simultaneously. One well-known form of \nhybrid loan is that of the great number of Sino-Japanese neologisms that, \nthrough Korea and Japans shared use of Chinese characters, have been \ncopied orthographically but not phonetically into Korean. In addition, many \nof the…
The phonology of English loan-words in Korean
It is generally accepted that the processes whereby loanwords are “copied” to the target language's phonology are fundamentally different from language-internal sound changes. Unlike language-internal sound changes, which occur when the speakers responsible are fully capable of the phonology of the input “source” and the sound changes occur across the entire lexicon, loans tend to be ad hoc, show inconsistent correspondences, and need only meet w…
Nonconventional script choice in Japan
The complexity and plurality of scripts and writing devices, such as auxiliary text or "ruby," used in nonconventional writing in Japan are outlined, and various aspects, such as the use of loan scripts, are shown to parallel aspects of spoken language contact. The complexity of Japanese writing overall is attributed to "indirect" language contact with languages encountered predominantly in written form, especially Literary Chinese in the past an…
Graphic loans: East Asia and beyond
The national languages of East Asia (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) have made extensive use of a type of linguistic borrowing sometimes referred to as a 'graphic loan'. Such loans have no place in the conventional classification of loans based on Haugen (1950) or Weinreich (1953), and research on loan word theory and phonology generally overlooks them. The classic East Asian phenomenon is discussed and a framework is proposed to descri…
Logography and layering: A functional cross-linguistic analysis
This paper proposes a way in which the semantographic/ phonographic dichotomy recognised as fundamental in logographic (or morphosyllabic) writing systems in East Asia, the ancient Middle East, and Mesoamerica can be systematised to transcend the very different scholarly traditions in each region in order to allow valid and more meaningful cross-linguistic comparisons. A totally functional analysis with a focus on synchronic words as they occur i…
Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Phonology (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Ancient Near East History (1 works) · Asian studies (1 works)