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Bunčić, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-8907 (2020). Wie entstehen diakritische Zeichen? In: Linguistische Beiträge zur Slavistik: XXVI. und XXVII. JungslavistInnen-Treffen, 6. bis 8. September 2017 in Bamberg und 12. bis 14. September 2018 in Heidelberg, pp. 13-31. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-81995-1

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Abstract

Diacritics have usually been viewed as marks that can be added to an alphabet ad libitum, in any arbitrary shape and for any function that is needed in a given language. This is not the case. Diacritics have a concrete ‘etymology’, which explains the relation between form and function just as etymologies for words explain the relation between signifier and signified. Specifically, diacritics can emerge in four ways: as iconic diacritics, from letters (or parts of letters), from deletion marks, or from disambiguation marks. However, in most cases diacritics are not created from scratch but borrowed from another language, which entails language contact, formal identity, and functional equivalence. (Straightforward functional shifts and formal evolutions are of course possible.)

Item Type:	Book Section
Translated title:	Title Language How do diacritical marks emerge? English
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bunčić, Daniel daniel.buncic@uni-koeln.de https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-8907 91457704
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lederer, Ivana UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Meyer, Anna-Maria UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schlund, Katrin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-376492
Identification Number:	10.18716/bun/diak
Title of Book:	Linguistische Beiträge zur Slavistik: XXVI. und XXVII. JungslavistInnen-Treffen, 6. bis 8. September 2017 in Bamberg und 12. bis 14. September 2018 in Heidelberg
Series Name:	Specimina Philologiae Slavicae
Volume:	201
Page Range:	pp. 13-31
Date:	2020
Publisher:	Peter Lang
Place of Publication:	Frankfurt am Main
ISSN:	0170-1320
ISBN:	978-3-631-81995-1
Language:	German
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Slavisches Institut
Subjects:	Language, Linguistics Other languages
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language graphematics; writing systems; history of writing; diacritics; letters; iconicity; deletion mark; disambiguation mark; accent mark; etymology English
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Refereed:	No
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/37649