Author: Nicholas Sims-Williams

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ORCID: 0000-0002-7444-2376

by Ronald E. Emmerick completed and edited by Mauro Maggi, John S. Sheldon and Nicholas Sims-Williams

A Handbook of Khotanese
17 x 24 cm, 360 p., hardback
98.00 €
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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 …

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

17 x 24 cm, 310 p., hardback
98.00 €
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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 …

By Georg Morgenstierne. Compiled and edited by J. Elfenbein, D. N. MacKenzie and Nicholas Sims-Williams

A New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto
17 x 24 cm, 148 p., cloth
49.00 €
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Pashto, one of the national languages of Afghanistan, is an archaic language of the Iranian family with a vocabulary of extraordinary variety and interest. In his "New Etymological Vocabulary of Pashto", Georg Morgenstierne identifies loanwords and traces inherited words back …

By Ilya Gershevitch. Selected and edited by Nicholas Sims-Williams

Ilya Gershevitch: Philologia Iranica
17 x 24 cm, 320 p., 1 Tafel, cloth
52.00 €
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A selection of 25 important articles and reviews by the distinguished Iranianist Ily Gershevitch is reprinted in this volume marking the occason of his 70th birthday. The articles, all written in English, orginally appeared between 1942 and 1977 were corrected …