Grammar, syntax & morphology

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...

Tous les chemins mènent à Paris

Studies inspired by Agnes Korn

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...

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

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...

Die Nasalpräsentien im Vedischen

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...

Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures

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...

The Nominal Domain in Georgian

A diachronic analysis

The present book analyzes the nominal domain in the Georgian language in its diachronic development. In Georgian, the noun phrase went through crucial changes over the centuries...

Le verbe simple en pashto

État des lieux

In this work, the Authors provide a detailed analysis of the Pashto Simple “Naked” Verbs, i.e. all not suffixed simple verbs, and the linguistic dynamics at work still nowadays....

Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale

This volume celebrates the work of the American linguist Mark R. Hale with contributions from general and historical linguistics, especially comparative Indo-European linguistics,...

Zurück zur Wurzel – Struktur, Funktion und Semantik der Wurzel im Indogermanischen

Akten der Tagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 13. bis 16. September 2016 in Wien

“Back to the Root” constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, held in Vienna 13-16 September 2016. The 23 papers cover various topics...

Dari-Persisch

Lehr- und Übungsbuch mit Lösungen, Audio- und Videomaterial

This textbook offers a communicative-oriented introduction to the Dari-Persian language of Afghanistan and aims to acquire a comprehensive basic knowledge.
An introductory...

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext (DWEE)

Band 5: Wirtschaft

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An der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig läuft seit 2007 das Projekt „Deutsche...

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. The project draws on a corpus of Tat spontaneous...

Wir, die Balten

Einblicke in die Geschichte der baltischen Sprachen und Völker

Das Forschungsfeld des litauischen Sprachwissenschaftlers Algirdas Sabaliauskas (1929–2016) umfasst sowohl die baltischen Sprachen als auch die baltische Sprachwissenschaft. Sein...

Historisch-vergleichende Sprachforschung und Kaukasiologie

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Die Mannigfaltigkeit der kaukasischen Sprachenwelt, die verschiedenen Herangehensweisen an ihre Betrachtung und...

The Lantern of Spirits

Miṣbāḥ ul-arvāḥ

Misbâh ul-arvâh, or The Lantern of Spirits, is a comparatively little known Sufi didactic Persian poem written in the 12th century by the next to unknown Shaikh Shams ud-dîn...

Le verbe pashto

Parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale

In this work, the Authors provide an analysis of the entire verbal system of Pashto, the language of some 50 million speakers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and diasporas. As an Iranian...

Ditransitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective

The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade, and a number of important studies appeared. However, a number of questions are not...

Die Entwicklungstendenzen des Passivs in der georgischen Schriftsprache

This monograph analyses the grammatical, pragmatic, communicative and lexical-stylistic functions of different subgroups of synthetic dynamic passives in Georgian. They differ...

Zur Hypotaxe in den Kartvelsprachen

This book deals with the problem of hypotactic structures in the Kartvelian, videlicet, South Caucasian languages and represents a comprehensive study of speech reporting in these...

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext (DWEE)

Band 4: Religion und Ethik

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An der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig läuft seit 2007 das Projekt „Deutsche...