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Nicholas Sims-Williams

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

2022

310 S., E-Book

98,00 €

Reihe: Beiträge zur Iranistik Band 49

ISBN: 9783752002485

ISBN Print: 9783752006889

DOI: https://doi.org/10.29091/9783752002485

urn:nbn:de:0306-9783752002485-9

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The nature of Old Khotanese metre has been a matter of controversy for more than a century. Nicholas Sims-Williams presents a new metrical analysis of the Book of Zambasta, the longest surviving Khotanese poem, arguing that the metre is based on the quantitative (moraic) principle, but with an obligatory ictus in the cadences which leads to the systematic lightening of certain unstressed syllables. The results shed light on the equally controversial issue of Khotanese accentuation and many other aspects of the language and its history. The book includes the complete text of the poem with interlinear scansion.

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.

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Schlagworte

Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie || Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft || Indo-European Studies || Indogermanisch || Indogermanistik || Iran || Iranian Cultures || Iranistik || Khotanese || Linguistik || Sprachwissenschaft || Zambasta