Palaeography (field) the study of past writing systems and the dating of historical manuscripts
Palaeography is an interdisciplinary sub-field of study within Grammatology that concerns the study of past writing systems and the dating of historical manuscripts. It belongs to the broader branch of science called Integrated Science. As an interdisciplinary field of study, its constituent disciplines include Comparative Linguistics, Grammatology, Historical Linguistics, History, Linguistics, Orthography, and perhaps others. This term belongs mainly to the broader category called Writing.
Constituent fields of Palaeography
- Comparative Linguistics (sub-field) the scientific study of comparing languages
- Grammatology (field) the scientific study of writing
- Historical Linguistics (sub-field) the scientific study of language change over time
- History (field) the study of past events, their causes, and consequences
- Linguistics (field) the scientific study of language
- Orthography (sub-field) the study of writing conventions for a given language
Citation
PsychLing Contributors. "Palaeography." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 10 Sep. 2023, psylng.org/glossary/field/palaeography. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
PsychLing (2023, September 10). Palaeography. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/glossary/field/palaeography
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