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The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts: Colophons and Marginal notes
This study investigates the role of paratext in Zoroastrian scribal tradition, with a focus on the Avesta manuscripts. It examines how paratexts, such as colophons and marginal...
A Handbook of Khotanese
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....
Zazaki
Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie
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Zazaki ist eine am nordwestlichen Rand des kurdischen Sprachgebiets gesprochene nordwestiranische Sprache, die...
Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik
In the first part of this work are described the religion and art of Buddhism as well as ancient and late medieval weapons. The second part consists of aspects of Iran's material...
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
Paola Orsatti is currently professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. In the course of a long and distinguished academic career combined with an impressive record of dedicated...
Editor: Utas, Bo
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...