Iranian Languages

The Indo-European Verb

Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010

17 x 24 cm, 376 p., hardback
98.00 €
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The contents address a wide range of issues regarding the formal and functional categories to be reconstructed for the PIE verb and their development into the attested verbal systems of the older Indo-European languages.

Klassisches Sanskrit
17 x 24 cm, 160 p., paperback / softback
19.90 €
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Im Band wird in knapper Form nach einem Überblick über die Schrift und den Sandhi die Formenlehre des klassischen Sanskrit in Umschrift meist tabellarisch dargestellt. In einigen Fällen sind zum besseren Verständnis vermeintlicher Unregelmäßigkeiten Anmerkungen zur Sprachgeschichte angefügt. Zwei Texte …

Tabous, interdits et obligations de langage en Afghanistan

Éléments du vocabulaire de la vie privée en terre d’Islam

17 x 24 cm, 168 p., 2 Faltpläne, 4 Diagramme, 76 Tafeln, cloth
59.00 €
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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 Afghanistan, sometimes under very adventurous circumstances.
As a contributor to the “Linguistic Atlas of Afghanistan” under …

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

17 x 24 cm, 368 p., hardback
79.00 €
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This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main concern was finding out what the sources tell us …

Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit

Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann

17 x 24 cm, 408 p., cloth
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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 languages. Texts and motifs and their origins and developments in Middle …

The Baloch and Others

Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan

17 x 24 cm, 400 p., hardback
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Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several states. It is a region where a variety of languages intermingle, different religions jostle for …

By Bo Utas. Edited by Carina Jahani and Dariush Kargar

Manuscript, Text and Literature

Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts

17 x 24 cm, 300 p., cloth
49.00 €
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This book is a selected collection of the scholarly production on Middle and New Persian literature by professor emeritus Bo Utas, Uppsala University, presented to him on his 70th birthday. Out of 19 articles, 15 are in English and four …

Iranian Loanwords in Syriac
17 x 24 cm, 364 p., cloth
68.00 €
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The book investigates the deep linguistic contact between Iranians and Arameans from the formation of the Achaemenid empire onwards, and focuses especially on the linguistic relationship between Middle Persian and Classical Syriac during the Sasanian empire, a subject on which …

Zarathushtra entre l’Inde et l’Iran

Études indo-iraniennes et indo-européenes offertes à Jean Kellens à l’occasion de son 65e anniversaire

17 x 24 cm, 390 p., cloth
110.00 €
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Twenty-seven articles by prominent Indo-Europeanists, Indologists and Iranists have been selected to commemorate the most innovative and consequent exeget of Avesta (the missal of the pre-islamic Paniranian religion, Mazdaeism or Parsism) of our times, Jean Kellens and to inscenery his …

Persisches Lesebuch

Farsi, Dari, Tojiki. Originaltexte aus zehn Jahrhunderten mit Kommentar und Glossar

17 x 24 cm, 432 p., hardback
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The „Persian reader“ documents the development of the Modern Persian written language, based on a representative selection of original texts ranging from poetry and the literary prose of Ferdawsi (10/11th century) to modern literature, in its entire historical and geographical …