Linguistics

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 …

Herausgegeben von Edith Feistner unter redaktioneller Mitarbeit von Nina Prifling

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 18 (2010/2011): Konrad von Megenberg (1309 bis 1374): Ein spätmittelalterlicher »Enzyklopädist« im europäischen Kontext

14.8 x 21 cm, 416 p., hardback
69.00 €
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This proceedings places Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) squarely at the focal point of European cataloging. It combines contributions from Megenberg followers from different disciplines and creates a wide spectrum of thought on the modern effectiveness of this first German "non-fiction …

Hg. von Thomas Krisch und Thomas Lindner unter redaktioneller Mitwirkung von Michael Crombach und Stefan Niederreiter

Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog

Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg

17 x 24 cm, 704 p., hardback
148.00 €
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The conference proceedings "Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog" (Indo-European Studies and Linguistics in Dialogue) collects a representative selection of papers from the 13th conference of the same name held in 2008 by the Indo-European Society in Salzburg, Austria. It includes …

Iambos

Philologische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte einer Gattung in der Antike

17 x 24 cm, 784 p., cloth
148.00 €
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Here, Klaus Lennartz presents for the first time his overall view of the antique genre of the Iambos: examining the “Truth effect” of the Solonic Iambic tradition and the integration of the Iambic “Classics” into the forms of discourse of …

»Christus und die minnende Seele«

An Analysis of Circulation, Text, and Iconography

17 x 24 cm, 352 p., cloth
78.00 €
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The late medieval verse dialogue ‘Christus und die minnende Seele’ portrays the journey of the soul as the bride of Christ toward mystical union in a series of 20 to 24 individual scenes. This study provides for the first time …

Arabic Minimalist Story

Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era

17 x 24 cm, 184 p., hardback
49.00 €
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One of the major aims of this book is to characterize the Arabic minimalist story as a newly established genre of narrative fiction that exploits a host of “austere” techniques in order to present a variety of socio-political issues. Believing …

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 …

»Gnomica Democritea«

Studien zur gnomologischen Überlieferung der Ethik Demokrits und zum Corpus Parisinum mit einer Edition der »Democritea« des Corpus Parisinum

17 x 24 cm, 676 p., cloth
98.00 €
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The book “Gnomica Democritea” takes a panoramic view of the fate of Democritus’ ethics by establishing a connection between the lost body of works on ethics and the “gnomological” tradition which is at the core of Diels’ collection of fragments …

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 …

Poetry’s Voice – Society’s Norms

Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies

17 x 24 cm, 306 p., hardback
68.00 €
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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 …

Die Sprache Alkmans

Textgeschichte und Sprachgeschichte

17 x 24 cm, 408 p., cloth
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The Spartan poet Alcman is crucial to our understanding of the early history of the Greek dialects and the development of the Greek poetical language. He is not only the earliest choral lyric poet to have his fragments surviving to …

Eremus und Insula

St. Gallen und die Reichenau im Mittelalter – Modell einer lateinischen Literaturlandschaft

17 x 24 cm, 176 p., paperback / softback
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This book is a comparative literary history of the two monasteries St. Gall (Eremus) and Reichenau (Insula). Many examples show that the spirit of competition was decisive for the intellectual and artistic development of these two great monasteries of the …