Historical & comparative linguistics

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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...

Kirgisische Grammatik

The book composed by Dr. Mahabat Sadyrbek on voluntary basis for more then ten years is a mixture of normative, scientific and comparative grammar of Kyrgyz – one of the oldest...

Kratylos, Bd. 67

Kritisches Berichts- und Rezensionsorgan für indogermanische und allgemeine SprachwissenschaftAnnual Review of Indo-European and General Linguistics

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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...

Writing and Orthography in non-literary Texts from Roman Britain

A Sociolinguistic Approach

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,...

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...

Lessico Etimologico Italiano. Band 21 (XXI)

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Das "Lessico etimologico italiano" bietet:
1. Das erste etymologische Grundlagenwörterbuch, das systematisch...

Der Erbwortschatz der nachischen Sprachen im Kaukasus

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Die nachischen Sprachen (Tschetschenisch, Inguschisch, Batsisch oder Zowathuschisch) sind im mittleren...

Lessico Etimologico Italiano. Band 16 (XVI)

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Das "Lessico etimologico italiano" bietet:
1. Das erste etymologische Grundlagenwörterbuch, das systematisch...

Dim Sum – Chinesisch in kleinen Portionen

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Dim Sum. Chinesisch in kleinen Portionen ist ein deutschsprachiges Lehrwerk für Chinesisch, das sich besonders...

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....

Persisch aktiv

Eine Einführung in Sprache und Kultur

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Diese zeitgemäße Einführung in die persische Gegenwartssprache wendet sich an Studierende orientalistischer...

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...

Lessico Etimologico Italiano Lfg. E 8

Lessico Etimologico Italiano Lfg. D 12

Gestalten der Geschichte Georgiens

vom 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis zu den Mongolen

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Die Arbeit führt in alphabetischer Reihenfolge eine Großzahl historischer Persönlichkeiten auf, die die...