Historical & comparative linguistics

Berthold Delbrück, Historical and Comparative Indo-European Syntax 1922–2022

Proceedings of the International Conference Delbrück Colloquium on Historical and Comparative Syntax of Indo-European, held in Verona on November 9–12, 2022

This volume contains some important studies on syntax of Indo-European languages presented at the Delbrück Symposium on Indo-European Syntax on the occasion of the 100th...

A Handbook of Khotanese

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....

Zazaki

Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie

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Zazaki ist eine am nordwestlichen Rand des kurdischen Sprachgebiets gesprochene nordwestiranische Sprache, die...

Languages and Cultures of the Caucasus

A Festschrift for Kevin Tuite

This anthology presents current findings from Caucasus Studies. The focus is on contributions from the fields of linguistics, history and socio-cultural anthropology. All authors...

Voicing Plurality in an Open World

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...

Große Kriege und Schlachten der Georgier

Von den Assyrienkriegen bis König Giorgi Lascha

The most important Georgian battles (wars and battles) within three millennia are presented here in chronological order in a brief overview. The period covers the span from the...

Lessico Etimologico Italiano Lfg. D 13

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...

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

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...

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...