Pragmatisches Schriftgut

Bau-, Schuld- und Rechnungsbücher im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit

Das Anlegen von Bau-, Schuld- und Rechnungsbüchern setzt konkrete Anlässe oder Zielsetzungen voraus, wie z. B. Bauvorhaben, die Kontrolle von Ausgaben oder die Dokumentation von Zahlungen. Insofern lassen sich diese speziellen Bücher des pragmatischen Schriftguts als Werkzeuge verstehen, die geschaffen …

Die Sprachform der homerischen Epen

Faktoren morphologischer Variabilität in literarischen Frühformen: Traditionen, Sprachwandel, sprachliche Anachronismen

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One of the most salient characteristics of the Homeric language is its morphological variability. Ever since Witte and Parry, the meter and the formulaic diction have been believed to be the major factors conditioning the linguistic diversity of Homer’s epics. …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 25 (2025) Die Stadt in Literatur und Kunst - Kunst und Literatur in der Stadt

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Mit dem Titel ‚Die Stadt in Literatur und Kunst – Kunst und Literatur in der Stadt‘ verfolgt der Band einen zweifachen Ansatz. Aufgenommen werden Überlegungen der jüngeren ‚Urban Sciences‘, die insbesondere die Umsetzung von imaginären Stadtbildern und -vorstellungen in Kunst …

Gnomologium Byzantinum

Studien zur Überlieferung und den Quellen, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar

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The critical edition (sub-volume II.1) together with several apparatuses (critical apparatus, descendants, parallels, similes, source), faithfully reproduces two redactions of the early Byzantine corpus of sayings named Gnomologium Byzantinum, replacing the older partial and ‚fictional‘ editions by Wachsmuth and Schenkl. …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

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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 …

Spelling Identities

Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

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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Im Band wird in knapper Form nach einem Überblick über die Schrift und den Sandhi die Formenlehre des klassischen Sanskrit in Umschrift meist tabellarisch dargestellt. In einigen Fällen sind zum besseren Verständnis vermeintlicher Unregelmäßigkeiten Anmerkungen zur Sprachgeschichte angefügt. Zwei Texte …

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 …

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 …