Historical & comparative linguistics

The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish

Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon

304 p., E-book
110.00 €
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This volume presents the documentation and description of the Mukri variety of the Central Kurdish, spoken in north western Iran. The volume contains background information on the dialect and the speech community, ten texts with English translations, two interlinear morphemic …

Dignitas – Genese eines römischen Wertbegriffs

Eine begriffsgeschichtliche Untersuchung

288 p., E-book
128.00 €
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Die begriffsgeschichtliche Untersuchung „Dignitas – Genese eines römischen Wertbegriffs“ verfolgt die Entwicklung des römischen Leitbegriffs dignitas in der antiken lateinischen Literatur. Dabei werden durch Interpretation exemplarisch ausgewählter Belege des Wortes Merkmale für dignitas abgeleitet. Die so gewonnenen Merkmale werden synchron …

Rasn Yast

The Avestan Hymn to ‘Justice’

272 p., E-book
69.00 €
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This book contains a critical edition of the Avestan language composition known as the Rašn Yašt, or ‘Hymn to Justice’. The text is accompanied by an English translation, philological commentary and glossary. In addition, the main themes of the Rašn …

Le verbe pashto

Parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale

176 p., E-book
78.00 €
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In this work, the Authors provide an analysis of the entire verbal system of Pashto, the language of some 50 million speakers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and diasporas. As an Iranian language, Pashto verbs share some main behaviours with the other …