Die ápa-√yaj-Konstruktion

Untersuchungen zum exozentrischen Resultativum im Indoiranischen, Griechischen und Lateinischen

Modern German allows expressions such as Geld versaufen or Fett wegtrainieren, which feature an object that could not be selected by the verb alone in the absence of the verb particle. Compounds of this sort are resultative insofar as they …

Pragmatisches Schriftgut

Bau-, Schuld- und Rechnungsbücher im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit

Das Anlegen von Bau-, Schuld- und Rechnungsbüchern setzt konkrete Anlässe oder Zielsetzungen voraus, wie z. B. Bauvorhaben, die Kontrolle von Ausgaben oder die Dokumentation von Zahlungen. Insofern lassen sich diese speziellen Bücher des pragmatischen Schriftguts als Werkzeuge verstehen, die geschaffen …

Text, script and language in Bactria and Serindia

Papers on cultural and linguistic interactions in pre-Islamic Central Asia

This collective volume unites ten papers by international specialists in history, philology, linguistics, palaeography and archaeology, dealing with texts written in Bactrian, Khotanese, Tumshuqese, Tocharian, and Gāndhārī (Niya-Prakrit) from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Northwest China, as well as with classical …

Hama als Erinnerungsfigur

Tabu, Schweigen und der Kampf um Deutungshoheit in der syrischen Literatur

Dieses Buch widmet sich dem Massaker von Hama im Jahr 1982, das jahrzehntelang zu den stärksten Tabus der syrischen Gesellschaft zählte. Anhand literarischer Darstellungen und Deutungszuschreibungen werden Formen des Schweigens, Erinnerns und Erzählens im Zusammenhang mit dem Massaker analysiert. Die …

The Diversification of Indo-Iranian and the Position of the Nuristani Languages

This book offers a new approach to the long-standing problem of the genealogical affiliation of the Nuristani languages, a small group of closely related languages spoken in the Eastern Hindu Kush, within the Indo-Iranian subgroup of Indo-European. This topic is …

An Old Khotanese Reader

The Tale of Bhadra

This reader contains the complete text of the Buddhist ‘Tale of Bhadra’, the second chapter of the Old Khotanese Book of Zambasta, accompanied by a translation, commentary and glossary. All morphological forms occurring in the text are identified in the …

ResourceCultures

How Resources Affect Societies

The final publication of the CRC 1070 ResourceCultures offers interdisciplinary insights into the questions of how resources are created, how resources are utilised, how resources are influenced by social processes and how resources in turn affect societies. Using concrete case …

Realms of Strangers: Readers, Language, and Trickery in Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī

This is a book about strangeness and strangers in the Maqāmāt of Ḥarīrī, an Arabic compendium of literary fiction from the 6th/12th century, featuring in fifty episodic narratives an intellectual pursuing a trickster to collect his rare words, sophisticated compositions, …

L’auteur dans ses livres: autorité et matérialité dans les littératures romanes du Moyen Âge

What does the term author mean in the Romance literatures of the Middle Ages? What is its role in structuring the collection of texts attributed to it? Do the medieval written testimonies reflect the idea the author had of his …

›Naturheiligtümer‹ im westlichen Kleinasien.

Natur in sakralen Kontexten von der Archaik bis zum Ausgang des Hellenismus

Caves, rocks, springs and trees shaped ancient cult practice to a great extent and were important, sometimes legitimising components of Greek sanctuaries. They could even constitute the actual sanctuary itself. Since such natural sanctuaries were not per se precursors of …

The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts: Colophons and Marginal notes

This study investigates the role of paratext in Zoroastrian scribal tradition, with a focus on the Avesta manuscripts. It examines how paratexts, such as colophons and marginal notes, contribute to organizing and interpreting the content of these manuscripts. These elements …

Watañi lāntaṃ

Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian

Contacts between Tocharian A and B and Khotanese and Tumshuqese, four languages once spoken in today’s Xīnjiāng Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China, lack a comprehensive treatment and are still a controversial topic. This work contains the first systematic investigation …

Etruskische Heiligtümer des 8.–5. Jhs. v. Chr. als Wirtschaftsräume und Konsumptionsorte von Keramik

While many aspects of Etruscan religion are intensively discussed and studied through current conferences, publications and fieldwork, general research and an overview of the socio-political and economic significance of the religious sphere in Etruscan society is still lacking. This volume …

Mystique, langage, image : montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren

The experience of transcendence, especially when it concerns the direct encounter with God, exceeds every human possibility of expression. Only pictorial expression is able to make visible, at least approximately, what is invisible to the human eye and the human …

The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī

Authorship, Texts, and Contexts

Through investigations of manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badîʿ al-Zamân al-Hamadhânî’s Maqâmât. The broad concerns of the book are divided into three sections: authorship, texts, and contexts. Each chapter in this volume investigates hitherto unstudied …

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 13 (2017) Übergänge / Vol. 13 (2017) Transitions

"Transitions are the hardest thing" is how the reading journey in this 2017 yearbook begins with the words of author Rosemarie Tüpker. It is hoped that it will be easy to make the transition from browsing the articles to reading …

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 12 (2016) Supervision und Intervision in der Musiktherapie / Vol. 12 (2016) Supervision and Intervision in Music Therapy

In this volume, eight authors provide insight into concepts and ideas of supervision, counseling and intervision, primarily in relation to music therapy methods and procedures. In six German-language articles and one English-language article, this subject unfolds from theoretical foundations to …

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 11 (2015) Formen / Vol. 11 (2015) Forms

In this Music Therapy Annual (Jahrbuch Musiktherapie) published by the German Music Therapy Association (Deutsche Musiktherapeutische Gesellschaft), seven authors and three reviewers question the significance of Forms in music therapy processes – as a shaping principle and as an emerging …

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 10 (2014) Mentalisierung und Symbolbildung in der musiktherapeutischen Praxis / Vol. 10 (2014) Mentalization and Symbol Formation in Music Therapy Practice

The articles submitted on the topic of the book "Mentalisation and Symbol Formation" could provide answers to these and similar questions. From the essays that are now actually available, one main focus has emerged: the majority of the contributions deal …

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 9 (2013) Wo steht die Musiktherapie im Gesundheitswesen? / Vol. 9 (2013) Where Does Music Therapy Stand Within The Health Care System?

For the 9th yearbook that we are presenting this year, we asked the question: "Where does music therapy stand in the health sector? In a way, it has become a stocktaking. It contains both insights into the history of music …