Historical & comparative linguistics

Die ápa-√yaj-Konstruktion

Untersuchungen zum exozentrischen Resultativum im Indoiranischen, Griechischen und Lateinischen

17 x 24 cm, 548 p., hardback
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Modern German allows expressions such as Geld versaufen or Fett wegtrainieren, which feature an object that could not be selected by the verb alone in the absence of the verb particle. Compounds of this sort are resultative insofar as they …

Text, script and language in Bactria and Serindia

Papers on cultural and linguistic interactions in pre-Islamic Central Asia

17 x 24 cm, 350 p., hardback
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This collective volume unites ten papers by international specialists in history, philology, linguistics, palaeography and archaeology, dealing with texts written in Bactrian, Khotanese, Tumshuqese, Tocharian, and Gāndhārī (Niya-Prakrit) from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Northwest China, as well as with classical …

Hartmann von Aue: „Gregorius“

und die Wiederkehr des Ödipus-Mythos im Mittelalter

17 x 24 cm, 204 p., hardback
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With Gregorius, written around 1190, Hartmann von Aue created a masterpiece of courtly saintly life that builds on the tradition of French sources while enriching it with original, mythical elements. Hartmann vividly portrays the extreme twists of an Oedipal destiny …

Lessico Etimologico Italiano. Band 17 (XVII)

conformis - cooperimentum

19.5 x 28 cm, 764 p., cloth
980.00 €
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Das "Lessico etimologico italiano" bietet:
1. Das erste etymologische Grundlagenwörterbuch, das systematisch die italienische Schriftsprache und die italienischen Dialekte mitberücksichtigt.
2. Das erste etymologische Wörterbuch des Italienischen, das im Aufbau dem FEW entspricht und den Wortschatz Italiens in den gesamtromanischen Zusammenhang stellt. …

Spelling Identities

Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages

17 x 24 cm, 190 p., hardback
69.00 €
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This volume contains a selection of papers given at the 2nd Symposium on Linguistic Identities: Spelling, Writing and Identity, held on 29 and 30 November 2021 at the University of Stavanger, Norway. It also features two specifically commissioned contributions. The …

Siddham

Studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi

17 x 24 cm, 480 p., hardback
110.00 €
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This volume honours Mauro Maggi, celebrating his contributions to Iranian, Indo-Aryan, and Central Asian philology and linguistics. It includes twenty-nine papers from colleagues, former students, and friends, covering a wide array of languages and text traditions such as Avestan, Khotanese, …

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

17 x 24 cm, 464 p., hardback
110.00 €
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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 anniversary of Berthold Delbrück's death in 2022. The book, which can be considered one of …

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
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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 …

Languages and Cultures of the Caucasus

A Festschrift for Kevin Tuite

17 x 24 cm, 196 p., hardback
98.00 €
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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 share a close relationship with the outstanding Caucasus researcher Kevin Tuite, whose lifework is honoured with …

Watañi lāntaṃ

Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian

17 x 24 cm, 332 p., hardback
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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 treatment and are still a controversial topic. This work contains the first systematic investigation …

Kirgisische Grammatik
17 x 24 cm, 304 p., inkl. Audiomaterial, paperback / softback
49.90 €
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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 Turkic language and the official language of Kyrgyz Republic. …