International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

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The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

Morgantina Studies VII. The City Plan and Political Agora

Results of the excavations conducted by Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia

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The orthogonal city plan was adopted in the mid-fifth century BCE and implies a democratic constitution. Almost entirely excavated, Morgantina’s large agora offers a detailed picture of the civic architecture of an early Hellenistic western Greek city. Ten major civic …

Die Siedlungsstelle von Oberderdingen-Großvillars, Lkr. Karlsruhe

Epirössen und der Beginn der Michelsberger Kultur

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Die zweite Hälfte des 5. Jahrtausends v. Chr. ist eine Zeit des Wandels: Die jungneolithische Michelsberger Kultur löst die alt- und mittelneolithischen Traditionen ab, die weite Teile Mitteleuropas rund ein Jahrtausend lang geprägt hatten. Für den Kraichgau bietet die in …

Tous les chemins mènent à Paris

Studies inspired by Agnes Korn

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This volume is a collection of nine papers by various authors focussing on issues of etymology, historical language contact, morphology and syntax, typological modelling, and folk practices in the Caucasus–Iran–Central Asia area and its immediate vicinity. The volume is a …

Gruppenanalyse aus kulturmorphologischer Sicht

Das andere Konzept

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The case study illustrates the interrelated activities of a group analysis. The group is recruited from patients at a psychosomatic day clinic. However, the focus is not on their illness, but on their willingness to spontaneously play music and to …

Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity

A Journey on the Trail of Apostles, Martyrs and Local Saints

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Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity is a journey of discovery of the rich religious landscape of Cilicia in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity, with its contrasting and fascinating natural landscapes. Famous and prosperous cities of Cilicia Pedias such …

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

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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 …

Die Nasalpräsentien im Vedischen

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This book constitutes a comprehensive study of the Vedic nasal presents from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Each present in question is discussed in the frame of a individual lemma which contains an analysis of its uses, of the structure …

„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts

Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa

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The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus Sanctus). How is it that in the last third of the 13th century …

Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts from Roman Britain

A Sociolinguistic Approach

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The analysis of orthographic variation and the writing habit presented in this book represented a heuristic tool for the study of the sociolinguistic scenario of Roman Britain, sketching the different micro-histories of Latinization according to a new, ground-breaking, perspective. As …