Indo-Germanic Languages

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 …

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 …

Phthonos

Mißgunst, Neid und Eifersucht in der byzantinischen Literatur

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Die Emotion „Phthonos“ spielt in Byzanz (definiert als „Schmerz über das Wohlergehen des anderen“) eine besondere Rolle: Sie ist das Böse an sich. Einerseits ist Phthonos die negative und aggressive Leidenschaft, die sich durch Heuchelei, Verleumdung sowie Mord äußert und …

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. …

Handbuch der Iranistik Band 1

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Das „Handbuch der Iranistik“ (HdI) fasst den aktuellen Stand und Tendenzen der iranistischen Forschung zusammen und stellt deren wichtigste Disziplinen und Themenbereiche umfassend dar. Dabei orientiert sich das HdI an einer breit aufgestellten, integrativen, jedoch immer philologisch und empirisch fundierten …

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.

The Pahlavi Yasna of the Gathas and Yasna Haptanhaiti

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The Pahlavi Yasna of the Gāthās and Yasna Haptaŋhāiti is a critical edition of the Pahlavi text, with citations of parallel passages in the Dēnkard, accompanied by a complete glossary and an introductory text-critical treatment of the text. Also provided …

Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog

Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg

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The conference proceedings "Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog" (Indo-European Studies and Linguistics in Dialogue) collects a representative selection of papers from the 13th conference of the same name held in 2008 by the Indo-European Society in Salzburg, Austria. It includes …

Klassisches Sanskrit

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Die Kurzgrammatiken bieten das jeweilige Material in praktischer, meist tabellarischer Form und können von Dozenten auch als Grundlage für den weiterführenden Unterricht verwendet werden. Sie geben einen Überblick über Bezeugung, Schrift, Grundzüge der Lautlehre, Formenlehre, ggf. Syntax der jeweiligen Sprach(stuf)e …

Zarathushtra and his Antagonists

A Sociolinguistic Study with English and German Translation of His Gathas (SZ)

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Herodotus’s Scythians and Ptolemy’s Central Asia

Semasiological and Onomasiological Studies

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The present book deals with semasiological and onomasiological questions in Herodotus's (5th century B.C.) famous portrayal of the Scythians and in Ptolemy's description of the Central Asiatic countries as presented in Book 6 of his 'Geography' (around 150 C.E.). The …

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 …

Grammaire juhuri, ou judéo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l’est

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Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), the language of the so-called “Mountain Jews” of Daghestan and Azerbaijan, belongs to the Caucasian Tat group of South-Western Iranian. Its Iranian heritage, reflected by noteworthy archaisms, constitutes an important component of the language, but Juhuri has also …

The Gorani language of Gawraju a village of West Iran

Texts, grammar, and lexicon

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This book describes an endangered variety of Gorani spoken by an Ahl-i Haqq (Yaresan) community in a village of western Iran, Kermanshah province. It contains a grammatical sketch, transcribed and analysed texts that were recorded in the village, and a …

La seconda epistola ad Ammeo di Dionigi di Alicarnasso

Studi sulla tradizione manoscritta

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In this book, Alessandra Palla provides the first comprehensive investigation into the manuscript tradition of the Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ De thucydidis idiomatibus, commonly known as Epistula ad Ammaeum II. The extensive study of all the manuscripts and the innovative results …

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 …

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

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This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main concern was finding out what the sources tell us …

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 …