Grammar, syntax & morphology

Siddham

Studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi

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This volume honours Mauro Maggi, celebrating his contributions to Iranian, Indo-Aryan, and Central Asian philology and linguistics. It includes twenty-nine papers from colleagues, former students, and friends, covering a wide array of languages and text traditions such as Avestan, Khotanese, …

Berthold Delbrück, Historical and Comparative Indo-European Syntax 1922–2022

Proceedings of the International Conference Delbrück Colloquium on Historical and Comparative Syntax of Indo-European, held in Verona on November 9–12, 2022

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This volume contains some important studies on syntax of Indo-European languages presented at the Delbrück Symposium on Indo-European Syntax on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Berthold Delbrück's death in 2022. The book, which can be considered one of …

Classical Mongolian

A Textbook for Students, Scholars, and Everyone Interested in Mongolian

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This English-language textbook is designed for those interested in learning the Classical Mongolian script. Prior knowledge of the modern Mongolian language and the Cyrillic alphabet is not required for enthusiasts wishing to use this book. The textbook offers: a learning …

A Handbook of Khotanese

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Ronald E. Emmerick’s Handbook of Khotanese consists of two parts: an Introduction to Khotanese, and a systematic survey of Khotanese and the closely related Tumshuqese language. His tried and tested Introduction to Khotanese, which has been used by many students …

Languages and Cultures of the Caucasus

A Festschrift for Kevin Tuite

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This anthology presents current findings from Caucasus Studies. The focus is on contributions from the fields of linguistics, history and socio-cultural anthropology. All authors share a close relationship with the outstanding Caucasus researcher Kevin Tuite, whose lifework is honoured with …

Zazaki

Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie

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Zazaki ist eine am nordwestlichen Rand des kurdischen Sprachgebiets gesprochene nordwestiranische Sprache, die heute von ca. 2 Millionen Sprechern in Südostanatolien als Muttersprache verwendet wird. Es ist eine dem Kurdischen verwandte, aber dennoch eigenständige Sprache. Seit der Eskalation des Konfliktes …

A Grammar of Early Judaeo-Persian

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Early Judaeo-Persian (EJP) is the form of Persian that was spoken by Jews, and written in Hebrew script, in ca. the 8th-12th centuries C.E. Most EJP manuscripts have been found in the Cairo Geniza from the late 19th century onwards. …

The Arabic language across the ages

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“The Arabic language across the ages” provides a collection of linguistic and philological studies that investigate diachronically and chronologically different aspects of the Arabic language and its dialects. It presents studies on Arabic dialectology (e.g., Arabic North-African dialects), morphology (e.g., …

The Indo-European Verb

Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010

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The contents address a wide range of issues regarding the formal and functional categories to be reconstructed for the PIE verb and their development into the attested verbal systems of the older Indo-European languages.

Azandname

An edition and literary-critical study of the Manichaean-Sogdian Parable-Book

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This work is an edition and literary-critical study of a Manichaean text in Sogdian known as the Āzandnāmē, or Parable-Book. The first part is a new and expanded edition of the Sogdian text with English translation and philological commentary. The …

Wir, die Balten

Einblicke in die Geschichte der baltischen Sprachen und Völker

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Das Forschungsfeld des litauischen Sprachwissenschaftlers Algirdas Sabaliauskas (1929–2016) umfasst sowohl die baltischen Sprachen als auch die baltische Sprachwissenschaft. Sein Buch /Wir, die Balten/ ist ein lehrreicher und unterhaltsamer linguistischer Spaziergang durch die Geschichte der baltischen Sprachen, der für Sprachexperten wie …

The Gorani language of Zarda, a village of West Iran

Texts, grammar, and lexicon

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This volume presents the documentation and description of an endangered variety of the Gorani language as spoken in Zarda, a village located near Sar Pol-e Zahab and Kerend in Kermanshah province, western Iran. The volume contains background information about the …

Kartwelsprachen

Altgeorgisch, Neugeorgisch, Mingrelisch, Lasisch, Swanisch

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Die Kartwelsprachen oder südkaukasischen Sprachen sind eine Familie verwandter Sprachen, die über weite Teile des zentralen und westlichen Kaukasus und Transkaukasiens verbreitet sind. Die heutigen Kartwelsprachen gehen auf die kartwelische Grundsprache zurück, deren Dialekte sich allmählich immer weiter voneinander entfernten, …

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 …

Formelhaftigkeit in Text und Bild

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This volume comprises interdisciplinary papers on different subjects in the field of the humanities, which were read at a workshop of the same name at the University of Trier in 2008. For the first time, the papers focus on the …

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 …

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 …

Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures

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This volume presents papers demonstrating the current state of research on oral traditions among different groups in the Iranian-speaking cultural sphere. The articles offer from a variety of perspectives, encouraging the exchange of ideas between different academic disciplines such as …

The Nominal Domain in Georgian

A diachronic analysis

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The present book analyzes the nominal domain in the Georgian language in its diachronic development. In Georgian, the noun phrase went through crucial changes over the centuries on various levels -- morphological, morpho-syntactic, syntactic, semantic, and typological. The peculiarities of …