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 …
Latin is still a crucial language for all scholars of diachronic or synchronic linguistics. But more and more students have to learn Latin in a crowded crash-course at the university, and so there is a certain need for anthologies which …
First of all the book provides a comprehensive and commented collection and classification of consonantal sound changes in Indo-European, Semitic, and Uralic. The data is given in IPA-transcription and arranged according to phonetic and phonological criteria. From this collection preliminary …
When a pre-modern author writes about nomads, his writing is immediately suspected of being soaked with literary formulae. This suspicion, which is no doubt justified, is for the historian linked to the question: what kind of reality can be seen …
Das pseudo-aristotelische „Sirr al-asrar“ / „Secretum secretorum“ gehört zu den einflussreichsten Texten des Mittelalters. Der inhaltlich äußerst vielfältige Text entstand im 10. Jahrhundert in arabischer Sprache und wurde seit dem 12. Jahrhundert in verschiedene orientalische und europäische Sprachen übersetzt.
Die …
This volume completes the three volume work on dialects in North-Yemen. Like in the preceding volumes interesting words are annotated and etymologically explained where possible.
Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of Literary Studies as well as specialists in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish Studies explore …
Dieses Wörterbuch, das sich in erster Linie an fortgeschrittene Kenner und Praktiker des Französischen, Italienischen und Spanischen wendet, ist eine kleine vergleichende Lexikologie der romanischen Sprachen, eine Zusammenschau innerromanischer morphologischer und semantischer Besonderheiten. Es möchte ein Beitrag zum Problem der …
This dictionary undertakes, for the first time, to group the substantives and adjectives in the Arabic Koran by topics, with glosses in English. The categories are partly derived from nature such as “Astronomy”, “Metals” or “Human Sexuality”. Even specialists in …
Maltesisch ist eine Mischsprache aus einem semitischen Grundstock und starken italienischen und englischen Einflüssen. Daher zieht es immer wieder das Interesse sowohl der Semitistik / Arabistik als auch der Romanistik / Italianistik auf sich.
Der vorliegende Band ergänzt die „Einführung in …
The lexicon “On syntax” has been preserved in one manuscript of the 10th century - in the precious codex Paris. Coisl. gr. 345. The lexicon has been composed between the end of 6th century and the beginning of 9th century. …
