„The volume does, however, represent a most valuable contribution to Iranian linguistics. The range of Iranian languages studied is impressive and most of the articles demonstrate high scholarly competence. The careful editorial work has produced an attractive and cohesive volume. Maps, diagrams, and tables make it easy to get an overview of the articles, which for the most part are innovative and treat a great variety of interesting topics. In addition to answering the research questions posed in the studies, in many cases they invite further research. One veinteresting topic for further studies is presented by Sims-Williams, namely the ditransitive construction and the encoding of addressees, recipients, and benefactives. Other topics treated in this volume that would be interesting to study in a variety of Iranian languages include the development of perfect forms, deixis, consonant epenthesis, and finite control.“
Von Carina Jahani, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
In: Orientalia Suecana VOL. LXI (2012) S. 214- 217.
Agnes Korn
Studium der Indogermanistik, Indologie und Iranistik in Hamburg und Wien (Mag.a phil. 1996), Promotionsstudium der Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft in Frankfurt a. M. (Dr. phil. 2003), Habilitation in Vergleichender Sprachwissenschaft in Frankfurt a. M. (PD 2010);
Lektorin für Deutsch in Banská Bystrica/Slowakei (1995-96), Mitarbeit bei der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften / Kommission für Iranistik in Wien (1996-97) und an einem Wörterbuchprojekt an der Universität Graz (1996-98), seit 1998 am Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Phonetik und Slavische Philologie der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a. M.
Forschungsschwerpunkt: Historische Grammatik der iranischen Sprachen
The series Beiträge zur Iranistik was founded in the 1960s by Georges Redard and subsequently edited by Nicholas Sims-Williams from 1997 to 2020; the present series editor is Agnes Korn.
The series publishes works on the languages of the Iranian branch of Indo-European. The focus is on linguistics, including grammars, dictionaries, text editions, philology as well as diachronic and synchronic studies of linguistic topics. Neighbouring fields such as literature, archaeology and anthropology are likewise represented. The languages of the series are English, German and French. The Beiträge zur Iranistik are represented in libraries internationally and are widely used standard works of Iranian studies.