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Zachary Margulies's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
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Dimitri Nakassis deposited Linear A and Multidimensional Scaling on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
In this paper we use multidimensional scaling to analyse a corpus of texts and lexical items written in Linear A, an undeciphered script. We argue that more such work is necessary before Linear A can be deciphered (if this is indeed a possibility in the first place).
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Dimitri Nakassis deposited Athens, Kylon, and the Dipolieia on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Shared elements, especially topographical and judicial, in the ritual and myth of the Dipolieia and the narrative of the murder of the Cylonian conspirators imply that the two accounts came to be assimilated in Athenian consciousness.
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Patrick Burns's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Patrick Burns deposited Measuring and Mapping Intergeneric Allusion in Latin Poetry using Tesserae in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoMost intertextuality in classical poetry is unmarked, that is, it lacks objective signposts to make readers aware of the presence of references to existing texts. Intergeneric relationships can pose a particular problem as scholarship has long privileged intertextual relationships between works of the same genre. This paper treats the influence of…[Read more]
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Patrick Burns deposited Measuring and Mapping Intergeneric Allusion in Latin Poetry using Tesserae on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
Most intertextuality in classical poetry is unmarked, that is, it lacks objective signposts to make readers aware of the presence of references to existing texts. Intergeneric relationships can pose a particular problem as scholarship has long privileged intertextual relationships between works of the same genre. This paper treats the influence of…[Read more]
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Patrick Burns changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Patrick Burns's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Dimitri Nakassis deposited Labor Mobilization in Mycenaean Pylos in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis paper focuses on potential instances of indirect labor mobilization at Pylos, in which workers are retained for palatial projects, but through the agency of named individuals. I will attempt to show that in some cases the palaces supplemented directly-acquired labor with labor obtained through administrative intermediaries, high-level…[Read more]
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Dimitri Nakassis deposited Labor Mobilization in Mycenaean Pylos on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
This paper focuses on potential instances of indirect labor mobilization at Pylos, in which workers are retained for palatial projects, but through the agency of named individuals. I will attempt to show that in some cases the palaces supplemented directly-acquired labor with labor obtained through administrative intermediaries, high-level…[Read more]
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Dimitri Nakassis's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Dimitri Nakassis changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Multilingualism and Formulations of Scholarship: The Rosen Vocabulary in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe Rosen Vocabulary is an Old Babylonian bilingual text. Through an edition of this text, I argue that the ad-hoc mixed vocabularies known from the Old Babylonian period feature citations or allusions to literary compositions as well as subsequent analogous expressions, both in Sumerian and in Akkadian.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to questions of text-building during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1800–1600 bce). Copying practices e…[Read more]
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Jay Crisostomo deposited The Sumerian Discourse Markers u4-ba and u4-bi-a in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoIn Old Babylonian Sumerian literature, the temporal phrases u₄-ba and u₄-bi-a typically occur in complementary distribution. Previous analyses have focused on morphological disparity to differentiate the two. The present paper considers pragmatic functions within a larger discourse structure, analyzing them as discourse markers, specifically tem…[Read more]
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSumerian and Akkadian language contact in the early part of the second millennium BCE. The article discusses prevalent language ideologies based on native metalinguistic discourse in comparison with language use in practice with the phrase mu—pad₃ = nīš—itma ‘(s)he swore an oath’ as a case study.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Language, Writing, and Ideologies in Contact: Sumerian and Akkadian in the Early Second Millennium BCE in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSumerian and Akkadian language contact in the early part of the second millennium BCE. The article discusses prevalent language ideologies based on native metalinguistic discourse in comparison with language use in practice with the phrase mu—pad₃ = nīš—itma ‘(s)he swore an oath’ as a case study.
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Jay Crisostomo deposited Multilingualism and Formulations of Scholarship: The Rosen Vocabulary on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
The Rosen Vocabulary is an Old Babylonian bilingual text. Through an edition of this text, I argue that the ad-hoc mixed vocabularies known from the Old Babylonian period feature citations or allusions to literary compositions as well as subsequent analogous expressions, both in Sumerian and in Akkadian.
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