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Beiträge zur Iranistik
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
A Turquoise Coronet
Studies in Persian language and literature in honour of Paola Orsatti
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Paola Orsatti is currently professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. In the course of a long and...
Editor: Utas, Bo
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...
Azandname
An edition and literary-critical study of the Manichaean-Sogdian Parable-Book
This work is an edition and literary-critical study of a Manichaean text in Sogdian known as the Āzandnāmē, or Parable-Book. The first part is a new and expanded edition of the...
A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English
2nd edition, revised and completed
Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to...
The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish
Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon
This volume presents the documentation and description of the Mukri variety of the Central Kurdish, spoken in north western Iran. The volume contains background information on the...
Rasn Yast
The Avestan Hymn to ‘Justice’
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This book contains a critical edition of the Avestan language composition known as the Rašn Yašt, or ‘Hymn to...
Editor: Jahani, Carina; Fallahzadeh, Mehrdad
From Old to New Persian
Collected Essays
In a long series of essays, written during almost half a century, Bo Utas analyses the development of West Iranian languages, particularly Old, Middle, and New Persian, from...
The Gorani language of Zarda, a village of West Iran
Texts, grammar, and lexicon
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...
Grammaire juhuri, ou judéo-tat, langue iranienne des Juifs du Caucase de l’est
Juhuri (Judeo-Tat), the language of the so-called “Mountain Jews” of Daghestan and Azerbaijan, belongs to the Caucasian Tat group of South-Western Iranian. Its Iranian heritage,...
The Gorani language of Gawraju a village of West Iran
Texts, grammar, and lexicon
This book describes an endangered variety of Gorani spoken by an Ahl-i Haqq (Yaresan) community in a village of western Iran, Kermanshah province. It contains a grammatical...
Topics in Iranian Linguistics
The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the “Third International Conference on Iranian Linguistics”, held in September 2009 at the...
The Persian language in history
Fourteen papers on a diversity of themes relating to the grammar and the vocabulary of Persian, Middle Persian texts, non-standard and early varieties of Persian, and dialects of...
Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en Afghanistan
Éléments du vocabulaire de la vie privée en terre d’Islam
This book reflects on a quarter-century of observations by Charles Kieffer (Research Director CNRS, Paris) during his dialectological research from 1957-1981 in all of...
Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit
Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann
The book contains 21 contributions to a colloquium held in March 2006 in honour of W. Sundermann and dealing with various aspects of the literatures in the Middle Iranian...