Linguistics

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, …

Writing as Re-enchantment: The Arabic and Turkish Novel’s Neo-Sufi Response to Secular Modernity

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This study examines the revival of Sufism in the Arabic and Turkish novel during the second half of the 20th century. A picture is drawn where Sufism forms a main source of literary inspiration and becomes a mode to establish …

Das Janus-Prinzip

Fortschritt durch Rücksicht

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The Roman god Janus can still be a role model for us today. His double look forwards and backwards teaches us that retrospection is also necessary for sustainable progress. Retrospection has a double meaning in this context: it describes looking …

Spielformen des Lyrischen im späten Mittelalter

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The contributions in this anthology shed light on the thematic and poetic diversity of lyrical speech in the German late Middle Ages. The focus is on the productive engagement with genre and discourse traditions, the play with language, religious semantics …

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 …

Vergangenheit als Konstrukt

Mittelalterbilder seit der Renaissance

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Mittelalterbilder und ihr Weiterleben seit der Renaissance sind das Thema des Sammelbandes, der interdisziplinäre Forschungsbeiträge aus historisch arbeitenden Kulturwissenschaften vereint. Im Vordergrund steht die Frage nach den Konstruktionsprinzipien und Bausteinen der Mittelalterbilder, die sich als Artefakte erweisen und Einsicht in …

Die altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden

Editio minor mit deutscher Übersetzung

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In this book may be found a complete edition and German translation of the Old Persian texts of the mostly trilingual cuneiform inscriptions of the Persian kings from the Achaemenid dynasty. Only the minor corpora of vase inscriptions and those …

Der Tannhäuser

Untersuchungen zur Selbstbezüglichkeit seiner Lyrik und kommentierte Neuedition

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Tannhäuser has established a very unique profile as an author of 13th century medieval German literature. Not only did he experiment with literary genres and test their limits; his poetry is also defined by complex self-referential patterns. This study on …

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 …

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 …

„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

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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

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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 …

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Traditionen A, D und E

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The Latin medieval commentaries of the Roman satirist Persius (AD 34- 62), gathered from obscure ancient material, are published here for the first time in critical editions of 3 of the 5 anonymous traditions. This project, serving also as a …

Mystique, langage, image : montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren

The experience of transcendence, especially when it concerns the direct encounter with God, exceeds every human possibility of expression. Only pictorial expression is able to make visible, at least approximately, what is invisible to the human eye and the human …

Das Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier

(Montpellier, Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine, H 396) Studie und kommentierte Edition

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This small-size manuscript, probably produced in the second quarter of the fourteenth century in eastern central Germany, is here studied in depth for the first time. The manuscript is without any known parallels as regards its structure: illustrated with coloured …

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 …