Publications
Publications employing the iClassifier research tool
2024
Goldwasser, Orly. 2024. “Classifiers as a Priming Device or ‘Classifiers Tell Us What We Already Know’.” In Language, Semantics and Cognition: Saying and Conceptualizing the World from Ancient Egypt to Modern Times, ed. Gaëlle Chantrain, New Haven: Yale, 75-109.
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Goldwasser, Orly and Zev Handel (eds.). 2024. "Classifiers in Ancient Scripts." Journal of Chinese Writing Systems 8, Special Issue, 2–13.
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Goldwasser, Orly and Susana Soler. 2024. “Semantic Classifiers and Categorization in the Ancient Egyptian Writing System: Rules, List of Classifiers, and Studies by iClassifier on the ‘Story of Sinuhe’.” Journal of Chinese Writing Systems 8, Special Issue, 34–58.
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Grotenhuis, Jorke. 2024. “Digitizing Seth: Digital Approaches to Sethian Classification in the Coffin Texts.” Hieroglyphs 2, 7–42.
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Harel, Haleli, Orly Goldwasser & Dmitry Nikolaev. 2024. “iClassifier: A Digital Research Tool for Corpus-based Classifier Networks.” Journal of Chinese Writing Systems 8, Special Issue, 79–101.
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Harel, Haleli. 2024. “Comparing Networks of Semantic Categories: Digitizing Graphemic Classifiers in Ancient Complex Scripts Using the iClassifier Research Platform.” In: G. Chantrain (ed.), Language, Semantics and Cognition, 109–132. New Haven: Yale Egyptological Studies 14.
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Nikolaev, Dmitry, Jorke Grotenhuis, Haleli Harel and Orly Goldwasser. 2024. “Classifier identification in Ancient Egyptian as a low-resource sequence-labelling task.” ML4AL 2024 (First Machine Learning for Ancient Languages Workshop). Download via arXiv:2407.00475
Olina, Olga. 2024. Body Part Classifiers in the Luwian Hieroglyphic Script. Master’s thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Payne, Annick. 2024. "Phonetic Classifiers in the Anatolian Hieroglyphic Script." KASKAL. Rivista di storia, ambienti
e culture del Vicino Oriente Antico, n.s., 1, 93-104. Download article
Soler, Susana. 2024. Classifiers in Ancient Egyptian Scripts: A Digital Study of the Story of Sinuhe. Doctoral dissertation, University of Barcelona. [Advisors: Orly Goldwasser and Xavier Adiego.]
Selz, Gebhard J. 2024. "On Pots and People." In: Navigating the Worlds of History, edited by K. Ruffing et al. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 845-882.
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Selz, Gebhard J. and Bo Zhang. 2024. “Classification in Sumerian Cuneiform.” Journal of Chinese Writing Systems 8, Special Issue, 59–78.
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Xú, Yanru and Orly Goldwasser. 2024. “The Semiotic Functions of Semantic Classifiers in Ancient Egyptian Scripts and Ancient Chinese Scripts: A Comparative Essay (with Some Remarks on Semantic–Semantic Compounds – Huìyì).” Hieroglyphs 2, 157–196.
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Xú, Yanru. 2024. "Semantic Classifiers in Guodian Bamboo Manuscripts: Reconstructing Categories in the Ancient Chinese Mind." Journal of Chinese Writing Systems 8, Special Issue, 14–33.
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2023
Harel, Haleli, Orly Goldwasser and Dmitry Nikolaev. 2023. “Mapping the Ancient Mind: iClassifier, A New Platform for Systematic Analysis of Classifiers in Egyptian and Beyond.” In J. A. Roberson, R. Lucarelli & S. Vinson (eds.), Ancient Egypt, New Technology, 130–158. Harvard Egyptological Studies 17. Leiden: Brill.
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Goldwasser, Orly. 2023. “From Determinatives to Classifiers: Categorisation in the Ancient Egyptian Writing System.” In: Polis, S. (ed.), Guide to the Writing Systems of Ancient Egypt. Cairo: IFAO, 192–199.
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Goldwasser, Orly. 2023. “Was There an ‘Animal’ in Ancient Egypt? Studies in Lexica and Classifier Systems, with a Glimpse Towards Sumer.” In: Zsolnay, I. Seen Not Heard: Composition, Iconicity, and the Classifier Systems of Logosyllabic Scripts. Proceedings from March 2–3, 2017. 121-157, Chicago: Oriental Institute.
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2022-2021
Goldwasser, Orly. 2022. “Des déterminatifs aux classifcateurs: la catégorisation dans l’écriture des anciens Égyptiens.” In Guide des écritures de l’Égypte antique, edited by S. Polis, 164-171. Le Caire: coll. Les Guides de l’Ifao, 1.
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Harel, Haleli. 2022. A Network of Lexical Borrowings in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom: Organizing Knowledge According to the Classifier System. Doctoral dissertation, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Harel, Haleli. 2021-2022. “Zooming In and Out on Hoch Semitic Word List.” Journal of The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 48: 57-77.
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Soler, Susana. 2021. “Los orígenes del sincretismo Seth-Baal. Seth y la tormenta según los clasificadores de los Textos de los Sarcófagos del Reino Medio” (‘The Beginning of the Syncretism Seth-Baal.
Seth and the Storm according to the Classifiers.” In “Sentido de un empeño”. Homenatge a Gregorio del Olmo Lete, edited by Ll. Feliu, A.
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Research funding
For an up-to-date list of research projects on the topic of Classifier Studies in Ancient Egyptian, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led by Prof. Orly Goldwasser:
Exploring the minds of Ancient Egypt and Ancient China — A comparative network analysis of the classifier systems of the scripts
ISF grant no. 1704/22, PI Prof. Orly Goldwasser, co-investigator, Prof. Zev Handel. Participants: Yanru Xu, Haleli Harel, Dmitry Nikolaev, Jorke Grotenhuis.
Classifying the other: The classification of Semitic loanwords in the Egyptian script
ISF grant no. 735/17, PI Prof. Orly Goldwasser. Participants: Haleli Harel, Dmitry Nikolaev.
