From Old to New Persian

Collected Essays

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In a long series of essays, written during almost half a century, Bo Utas analyses the development of West Iranian languages, particularly Old, Middle, and New Persian, from various perspectives. The focus is placed on the transition from Middle to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Der Erbwortschatz der nachischen Sprachen im Kaukasus

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Die nachischen Sprachen (Tschetschenisch, Inguschisch, Batsisch oder Zowathuschisch) sind im mittleren Nordkaukasus beheimatet. Innerhalb der nachisch-daghestanischen Familie nehmen sie in genetischer Hinsicht eine zentrale Stellung ein. Die Arbeit bietet eine Zusammenstellung des größtenteils aus der nachisch-daghestanischen Grundsprache überkommenen Wortschatzes in …

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 …

Le verbe simple en pashto

État des lieux

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In this work, the Authors provide a detailed analysis of the Pashto Simple “Naked” Verbs, i.e. all not suffixed simple verbs, and the linguistic dynamics at work still nowadays. The classification of used Simple “Naked” Verbs in three main groups …

Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale

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This volume celebrates the work of the American linguist Mark R. Hale with contributions from general and historical linguistics, especially comparative Indo-European linguistics, phonological and syntactic theory, and language change.

Zurück zur Wurzel – Struktur, Funktion und Semantik der Wurzel im Indogermanischen

Akten der Tagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 13. bis 16. September 2016 in Wien

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“Back to the Root” constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, held in Vienna 13-16 September 2016. The 23 papers cover various topics of the Indo-European root, its constituents and properties, as well as various studies …

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat

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A Grammar of Şirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. The project draws on a corpus of Tat spontaneous speech, as well as tales, legends, anecdotes and other …

Gestalten der Geschichte Georgiens

vom 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis zu den Mongolen

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Die Arbeit führt in alphabetischer Reihenfolge eine Großzahl historischer Persönlichkeiten auf, die die Geschichte Georgiens über drei Jahrtausende hinweg gestaltet haben. Sie befaßt sich mit ihrer unterschiedlichen Lebenszeit und ihren verschiedenen Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen, mit ihren Taten, Erfolgen und Mißerfolgen …

Turandot Die persische Märchenerzählung

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

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The story of Turandot is one of the most famous and influential tales from the Islamic Orient. It has been reflected in numerous artistic adaptations as well as in popular tradition.
Contrary to a widely held opinion, Turandot is not a …

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext (DWEE)

Band 5: Wirtschaft

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An der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig läuft seit 2007 das Projekt „Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext - Der Mensch in Natur und Kultur“ (DWEE). In diesem Projekt wird der auf den Menschen bezogene Substantiv-Wortschatz des Deutschen vom Althochdeutschen …

A Turquoise Coronet

Studies in Persian language and literature in honour of Paola Orsatti

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Paola Orsatti is currently professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. In the course of a long and distinguished academic career combined with an impressive record of dedicated teaching, she has made significant contributions to the study of classical Persian …