william bright wrote:

>
> peter daniels claims i invented the term "alphabsyllabary", but i believe
> it has been common usage for about 20 years among students of south asian
> languages; i don't know who invented it.

Bill keeps saying that, but I've never encountered a use of it earlier
than his first one (which I think you can find in his little volume of
collected South Asian essays).

> the question has arisen in this list before as to where people can find the
> article in which i discussed the difference between daniels' abugida and my
> alphabsyllabary. it was published under the title "a matter of typology:
> alphasyllabaries and abugidas" in two periodicals: *written language and
> literacy* 2(1):45-56 (1999) and *studies in the linguistic sciences*
> 30(1):63-71 (2000). if anybody would like a hard copy of the article, you
> only have to ask me via email, and i will send it by snailmail, with a nice
> picture of king sejong on the cover.

That's the "real," i.e. Urbana, version; inside the covers is a list of
the articles from the conference, which will surely prompt you to order
a copy of the journal number for yourself!

> apparently some people can only read texts in electronic form. i haven't
> put the essay on my website; however, the periodical *written language and
> literacy* in which it appeared (and of which i'm editor) is available in
> electronic form; look at http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/journals/Wll_info.html
>
> the electronic form of the journal is free to those who subscribe to the
> paper version; otherwise there is a fee to subscribe to the electronic
> journal. i think that people with a serious interest in writing
> systems/grammatology would find it worth while to subscribe to the paper
> and/or electronic versions. cheers; bill

And submit articles! (So says a member of the Editorial Board)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...