Peter T. Daniels
Peter T. Daniels ( born December 11, 1951) is an American linguist.
Life
Daniels studied languages at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and Chicago State University and was a visiting professor at three continents. Today Daniels lives in New York and has been working for a book publisher.
Peter Daniels has specialized in the subject heading. Coming from the Arab Zähltradition and standing for an alphabetic sort order term abjad he has since 1990 translated into a series of publications on the term for a particular, vowel -less alphabet font type ( also Abugida ), but is not there remained unchallenged. Together with William Bright, he is editor of the extensive standard work The World 's Writing Systems ( German: The writing systems of the world).
Writings
- Introduction to the Semitic Languages . Text Specimens and Grammatical Sketches. Translation of the work of Gotthelf Bergstraesser into English. Eisenbrauns 1983. ISBN 0931464102
- Peter T. Daniels, William Bright: The World 's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996. ISBN 0195079930
- From Cyrus to Alexander. A History of the Persian Empire. Translation of the work of Pierre Briant into English. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, 2002. ISBN 1575060310
- Linguist
- University teachers (Milwaukee )
- University teachers (Chicago State University)
- Americans
- Born in 1951
- Man