Linguistics

Spelling Identities

Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages

add to cart add to wishlist

This volume contains a selection of papers given at the 2nd Symposium on Linguistic Identities: Spelling, Writing and Identity, held on 29 and 30 November 2021 at the University of Stavanger, Norway. It also features two specifically commissioned contributions. The …

Discourse Pragmatics and Prosodic Reconstruction

A New Approach to Prosodic Structure in Herodotus' Histories and Beyond

add to cart add to wishlist

The aim of this book is to establish prosodic reconstruction – especially of higher prosodic units such as the intonational or prosodic phrase – as a new subfield of historical-comparative linguistics. Incidentally, it develops a new model for capturing the …

Ein Schatzhaus indischer Erzählkunst – Die Erzählliteratur der Jainas

Band 1: Ein „Lesebuch“ originalsprachlicher Texte

add to cart add to wishlist

Der Jainismus, eine der drei großen in Indien entstandenen Religionen, hat eine Erzählliteratur hervorgebracht, die von seltener Fülle und vielleicht von einzigartigem Einfallsreichtum ist. Das Interesse, das die Erzählungen und Erzählstoffe der Jainas alleine für sich genommen und dann auch …

Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik

add to cart add to wishlist

In the first part of this work are described the religion and art of Buddhism as well as ancient and late medieval weapons. The second part consists of aspects of Iran's material culture, presented from historical and literary sources, especially …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 24 (2022/2023): Abbrüche – Umbrüche – Aufbrüche. Deutschsprachige Literatur zwischen 1450 und 1520

add to cart add to wishlist

Despite all the tendencies towards persistence, German-language literature formed and reorganised itself in many areas in the years between 1450 and 1520. While some genres and registers reached the end of their tradition or their productivity, others changed and developed …

Voicing Plurality in an Open World

add to cart add to wishlist

In a world characterized by mobility and dynamic formations of cultural, linguistic, and social identities, the general understanding of languages – at least in Europe – still reflects hierarchies and classifications that are based on the 19th century-based nation-state ideology. …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

add to cart add to wishlist

The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

Iambos

Philologische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte einer Gattung in der Antike

Here, Klaus Lennartz presents for the first time his overall view of the antique genre of the Iambos: examining the “Truth effect” of the Solonic Iambic tradition and the integration of the Iambic “Classics” into the forms of discourse of …

Endangered Iranian Languages

add to cart add to wishlist

This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists and field linguists who share a strong commitment to the scientific documentation and investigation of endangered Iranian languages. Five chapters of this volume represent the contributors’ findings on endangered Iranian languages …

Handbuch der Iranistik Band 1

add to cart add to wishlist

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 …

Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog

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

add to cart add to wishlist

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

add to cart add to wishlist

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 …

Herodotus’s Scythians and Ptolemy’s Central Asia

Semasiological and Onomasiological Studies

add to cart add to wishlist

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 …

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

add to cart add to wishlist

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

add to cart add to wishlist

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

add to cart add to wishlist

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 …

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Tradition B

add to cart add to wishlist

With the edition of the „tradition B“ of the Latin medieval Persius commentaries the edition of all Persius scholia ( from 9th – 16th century 75 testimonies) is completed (vol. I: tradition A, D, E, 2009; vol. II: tradition C, …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

add to cart add to wishlist

The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts

Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa

add to cart add to wishlist

The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus Sanctus). How is it that in the last third of the 13th century …

Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts from Roman Britain

A Sociolinguistic Approach

add to cart add to wishlist

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 …