Indo-Germanic Languages

Die ápa-√yaj-Konstruktion

Untersuchungen zum exozentrischen Resultativum im Indoiranischen, Griechischen und Lateinischen

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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

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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 …

Die Sprachform der homerischen Epen

Faktoren morphologischer Variabilität in literarischen Frühformen: Traditionen, Sprachwandel, sprachliche Anachronismen

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One of the most salient characteristics of the Homeric language is its morphological variability. Ever since Witte and Parry, the meter and the formulaic diction have been believed to be the major factors conditioning the linguistic diversity of Homer’s epics. …

Gnomologium Byzantinum

Studien zur Überlieferung und den Quellen, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar

17 x 24 cm, 1594 p., cloth
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The critical edition (sub-volume II.1) together with several apparatuses (critical apparatus, descendants, parallels, similes, source), faithfully reproduces two redactions of the early Byzantine corpus of sayings named Gnomologium Byzantinum, replacing the older partial and ‚fictional‘ editions by Wachsmuth and Schenkl. …

Siddham

Studies in Iranian philology in honour of Mauro Maggi

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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

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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
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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 …

Watañi lāntaṃ

Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian

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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 …

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

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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 longest surviving Khotanese poem, arguing that the metre is based …