Iranian Languages

Watañi lāntaṃ

Khotanese and Tumshuqese Loanwords in Tocharian

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...

Die altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden

Editio minor mit deutscher Übersetzung

In this book may be found a complete edition and German translation of the Old Persian texts of the mostly trilingual cuneiform inscriptions of the Persian kings from the...

The Book of Zambasta

Metre and stress in Old Khotanese

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...

Die Nasalpräsentien im Vedischen

This book constitutes a comprehensive study of the Vedic nasal presents from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Each present in question is discussed in the frame of a...

Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures

This volume presents papers demonstrating the current state of research on oral traditions among different groups in the Iranian-speaking cultural sphere. The articles offer from...

Le verbe simple en pashto

État des lieux

In this work, the Authors provide a detailed analysis of the Pashto Simple “Naked” Verbs, i.e. all not suffixed simple verbs, and the linguistic dynamics at work still nowadays....

An Analytical Bibliography of New Iranian Languages and Dialects

Based on Persian publications since ca. 1980

This bibliography is a collection of ca. 3,600 publications on new West Iranian languages and dialects (except Persian) that have been published in Iran since the revolution of...

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. The project draws on a corpus of Tat spontaneous...

A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English

2nd edition, revised and completed

Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to...

A Turquoise Coronet

Studies in Persian language and literature in honour of Paola Orsatti

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Paola Orsatti is currently professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. In the course of a long and...

The Lantern of Spirits

Miṣbāḥ ul-arvāḥ

Misbâh ul-arvâh, or The Lantern of Spirits, is a comparatively little known Sufi didactic Persian poem written in the 12th century by the next to unknown Shaikh Shams ud-dîn...

Le verbe pashto

Parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale

In this work, the Authors provide an analysis of the entire verbal system of Pashto, the language of some 50 million speakers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and diasporas. As an Iranian...

Messapisch

Concise description of the Messapic language (phonology, morphology, syntax) on the basis of the Messapic epigraphic corpus. Analysis of selected Messapic inscriptions. Extensive...

Ditransitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective

The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade, and a number of important studies appeared. However, a number of questions are not...

Endangered Iranian Languages

This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists and field linguists who share a strong commitment to the scientific documentation and investigation of endangered...

Turandot Die persische Märchenerzählung

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

The story of Turandot is one of the most famous and influential tales from the Islamic Orient. It has been reflected in numerous artistic adaptations as well as in popular...

Handbuch der Iranistik Band 2

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Der zweite Band des Handbuchs der Iranistik schließt an das Konzept des ersten Bandes an und entwickelt dieses...

Azandname

An edition and literary-critical study of the Manichaean-Sogdian Parable-Book

This work is an edition and literary-critical study of a Manichaean text in Sogdian known as the Āzandnāmē, or Parable-Book. The first part is a new and expanded edition of the...

Dance in Iran

Past and Present

This volume is an extraordinary history of dance, full of mystery and humor. The various developments in the history of this art in Iran have never before been presented in a...

The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish

Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon

This volume presents the documentation and description of the Mukri variety of the Central Kurdish, spoken in north western Iran. The volume contains background information on the...