--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
> >
> > Fevrier published in 1959 but it was a second edition - I have

not

> > seen the first edition, 1948, nor have I seen it quoted. He

readily

> > admits that the second edition includes additional material that
> > was not in the first.
>
> I have only the first edition. I once compared pages in the two

editions

> at random and found no differences. Maybe the 2nd corrects typos

in the

> 1st.

As you say, it is Fevrier's word. Of course, I have many times seen
Fevrier and Cohen referenced as 1959 and 1958 respectively. I am
now wondering if there is some publishing reason why Fevrier is not
listed as 1948.

Here is the preface to Fevrier's 2nd edition. I only give this as a
bit of editing trivia you may be interested in - it has nothing to
do with his use of the word neosyllabary which is integral to his
chapter on Brahmi, etc.

"The second edition is not a simple reproduction of the first.
Archeological discoveries and the progress of science imposed an
overhaul of the text on many points. We could assuredly have
resorted to the classic procedure, adding to an unchanged text a few
dozen pages in which we would have completed, modified and
contradicted our preceding affirmations. We would have preferred,
in spite of the material difficulties, to revise the text itself.

The reader will therefore find in this second edition, inserted into
the very body of the book entirely new developments, for example, on
the Mycean script, on the Protophoenecian script, on the Latin
alphabet, on the Libyan and Ibero-Tartessian scripts, etc." (my
translation)

> > Cohen says in his Ecriture (abrege), 1953, that his book "Grande
> > Invention de l'Ecriture", 1958, in which he uses the word
> > neosyllabisme, was actually written in 1947 and was then at the
> > printer (in 1953). He started the book before the war but he
> > stopped to fight in the resistance.
>
> Ditto Gelb's *Study of Writing*. Cohen's "Hamito-Semitic"

dictionary

> (1947) has the same history.

Thank you. It is helpful to know in which decade a book is written.

On Fevrier and Cohen's use ofthe terms, quoting a word here and
there is useless - I don't paraphrase well - but I will post
quotations some time soon.

> What is "the evolutionary school,"

Taylor, Gelb, Sjoberg ... and the trend in linguistics until the
80's to replace earlier writing systems in North America with a
phonemic alphabet.

Suzanne