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- 0.3, 9 May 2022
Scope of this document
The number of linguistics characters in the Unicode Standard is enormous. No attempt is made here to cover all of them. The following are observations of phenomena that have had an impact on Brill’s treatment of linguistic texts. It should be noted that the term ‘linguistics’ can cover the study of specific languages; the study of ‘language’ as such (sometimes called ‘theoretical linguistics’); comparative linguistics; and philology, which is the study of all sorts of language phenomena within the context of traditional scholarly disciplines, such as Classical Studies, theology, Semitic Studies, Arabic Studies, Sinology, and so on.
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In linguistics, the following non-literal symbols are often confused:
| WRONG character | Code point | Name | CORRECT character | Code point | Name | Remarks |
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Ø | U+00D8 | Latin capital letter O with stroke | ∅ | U+2205 | Empty set | The 'empty set' is used in linguistics to denote a zero morpheme (null morpheme) or zero-grade ablaut (or phonological 'zero'). Often submitted by authors as Capital letter O with stroke. |
| = | U+003D | Equals sign | ⸗ | U+2E17 | Double oblique hyphen | The 'double oblique hyphen' is often used in grammars, as a clitic marker or morpheme boundary marker. Often submitted by authors as Equals sign. |