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A Syntax Of Western Middle Iranian
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Book Synopsis A Syntax of Western Middle Iranian by : Christopher J. Brunner
Download or read book A Syntax of Western Middle Iranian written by Christopher J. Brunner and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthian & Middle Persian languages were spoken in pre- Islamic Iran during the Parthian & Sasanian periods (c. 250 B.C.-A.D. 641). They are preserved in several literatures & on artifacts & documents such as coins, seals, ostraca, monumental inscriptions, & papyri. This grammar organizes, illustrates, & compares the basic morphological & syntactic features of the two languages. Major diachronic changes & dialect variations are also pointed out. Two appendixes discuss related topics in Manichaean texts & Sasanian inscriptions.
Book Synopsis A Syntax of Western Middle Iranian by : Christopher Joseph Brunner
Download or read book A Syntax of Western Middle Iranian written by Christopher Joseph Brunner and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Middle Iranian Studies by : Wojciech Skalmowski
Download or read book Middle Iranian Studies written by Wojciech Skalmowski and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of a conference organized in a manner that the papers should cover most areas of research in the field of Middle Iranian. Several contributions contain surveys, summaries, methodological notes or proposals for new research. In this respect the volume may serve as a partial guide to the present state of research. Special attention is paid to Middle Persian, particularly to Pahlavi. Several articles deal with or are devoted to Khotanese.
Book Synopsis Alignment Change in Iranian Languages by : Geoffrey Haig
Download or read book Alignment Change in Iranian Languages written by Geoffrey Haig and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
Book Synopsis Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian by : Robin Meyer
Download or read book Iranian Syntax in Classical Armenian written by Robin Meyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a detailed corpus analysis of fifth-century historiographical texts to explore the influence of the Iranian languages on the syntax of Armenian. Robin Meyer argues that the Armenian periphrastic perfect was created on the model of similar constructions in Parthian via a long period of language contact.
Book Synopsis A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhra??a) by : Vít Bubeník
Download or read book A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan (Apabhra??a) written by Vít Bubeník and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph aims to close the gap in our knowledge of the nature and pace of grammatical change during the formative period of today's Indo-Aryan languages. During the 6th-12th c. the gradual erosion of the synthetic morphology of Old Indo-Aryan resulted ultimately in the remodelling of its syntax in the direction of the New Indo-Aryan analytic type. This study concentrates on the emergence and development of the ergative construction in terms of the passive-to-ergative reanalysis and the co-existence of the ergative construction with the old and new analytic passive constructions. Special attention is paid to the actuation problem seen as the tug of war between conservative and eliminative forces during their development. Other chapters deal with the evolution of grammatical and lexical aspect, causativization, modality, absolute constructions and subordination. This study is based on a wealth of new data gleaned from original poetic works in Apabhram?sa (by Svayam?bhadeva, Pus?padanta, Haribhadra, Somaprabha et al.). It contains sections dealing with descriptive techniques of Medieval Indian grammarians (esp. Hemacandra). All the Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhram?sa examples are consistently parsed and translated. The opus is cast in the theoretical framework of Functional Grammar of the Prague and Amsterdam Schools. It should be of particular interest to scholars and students of Indo-Aryan and general historical linguistics, especially those interested in the issues of morphosyntactic change and typology in their sociohistorical setting.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics by : Anousha Sedighi
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics written by Anousha Sedighi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research. Leading scholars in the major subfields of Persian linguistics examine a range of topics split into six thematic parts. Following a detailed introduction from the editors, the volume begins by placing Persian in its historical and typological context in Part I. Chapters in Part II examine topics relating to phonetics and phonology, while Part III looks at approaches to and features of Persian syntax. The fourth part of the volume explores morphology and lexicography, as well as the work of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. Part V, language and people, covers topics such as language contact and teaching Persian as a foreign language, while the final part examines psycho- neuro-, and computational linguistics. The volume will be an essential resource for all scholars with an interest in Persian language and linguistics.
Book Synopsis Aspects of Iranian Linguistics by : Simin Karimi
Download or read book Aspects of Iranian Linguistics written by Simin Karimi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspects of Iranian Linguistics introduces readers to recent research into various properties of a number of Iranian languages. The volume consists of twenty chapters that cover a full range of Iranian linguistics, including formal theoretical perspectives (from a syntactic and morphological point of view), typological and functional perspectives, and diachronic and areal perspectives. It also contains papers on computational linguistics and neurolinguistics, as well as the modern history of lexicography in Iran. Various Iranian languages are discussed in this volume, including Hawrami and Kermanji, two of the major dialects of Kurdish, Medival, Classical and Modern Persian, Balochi, Taleshi and Pamir. With the exception of Persian, other Iranian languages had not received much attention in the past. Thus this work, as the first volume ever published on various aspects of these languages and their linguistic properties, is a valuable contribution to our understanding of a less commonly studied language family. The theoretical, descriptive, and applied approaches pursued by various authors in this volume, together with the colorful range of languages discussed, provide a unique perspective that is appealing to researchers in different domains of linguistics and language studies.
Book Synopsis Advances in Iranian Linguistics II by : Simin Karimi
Download or read book Advances in Iranian Linguistics II written by Simin Karimi and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers insight into different aspects of an interesting but fairly understudied language family, opens a path to new inquiries, and provides valuable contribution to linguistics, in general, and to Iranian linguistics, in particular. The articles in this volume offer novel analyses of significant properties of some of the Iranian languages, and contribute to various linguistic subareas such as experimental and historical linguistics as well as the morphology, syntax and semantics of several members of this language family. Specifically, this volume features a few articles on the Ezafe construction which shed new light on this interesting phenomenon of Western Iranian languages from historical, comparative and syntactic points of view. Moreover, a few articles address the syntax and formal semantics of properties of Persian, offering new insight into particular constructions in this language which are also fruitful for the general theory of linguistics. Crucially, all authors raise important questions, opening up the path for further investigations.
Book Synopsis A Reader in Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian by : Boyce
Download or read book A Reader in Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian written by Boyce and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics by : Jared Klein
Download or read book Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics written by Jared Klein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
Book Synopsis The A to Z of Iran by : John H. Lorentz
Download or read book The A to Z of Iran written by John H. Lorentz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged entries cover key individuals; major events; important institutions and organizations; and significant economic, political, social, religious, and cultural issues.
Book Synopsis Grammatik des Westmitteliranischen (Parthisch und Mittelpersisch) by : Desmond Durkin
Download or read book Grammatik des Westmitteliranischen (Parthisch und Mittelpersisch) written by Desmond Durkin and published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: The Grammatik des Westmitteliranischen (Parthisch und Mittelpersisch) (grammar of the Western Middle Iranian language, Parthian and Middle Persian) represents the first attempt to plausibly and practically assess all aspects of both the Middle Persian and Parthian languages based on a concerted approach. An overview of the available material is followed by a description of the fonts utilized along with chapters on phonology, morphology and syntax. The use of a combined approach is particularly effective due to the approximately one thousand years of history shared by these neighboring and closely related languages. The presentation is comprehensible and the language in the documents clearly marked. An extensive chapter on syntax presents the documents in the form of a clear transcription, with the original documents (which have been transliterated) listed in a reference section and thoroughly indexed. This volume will be essential to researchers and students of Iranian linguistics, cultural and religious history, Manichaeologists and scholars of Central Asian and Indo-European Studies. German description: Nach mehreren Einzelbeschreibungen vor allem der Phonologie und Morphologie der Sprachen Mittelpersisch und Parthisch sowie einem Versuch, Aspekte der Syntax beider Sprachen nebeneinanderzustellen, ist die "Grammatik des Westmitteliranischen (Parthisch und Mittelpersisch)" der erste Versuch, alle Bereiche der zwei Sprachen Mittelpersisch und Parthisch in einer sinnvollen und ausgewogenen Weise gemeinsam zu behandeln. Nach einem Uberblick uber das vorhandene Material werden die verwendeten Schriften beschrieben. Dann folgen Kapitel zur Phonologie, Morphologie und Syntax. Die etwa tausendjahrige gemeinsame Geschichte dieser benachbarten und eng verwandten Sprachen macht eine vereinte Behandlung sehr nutzlich, denn in den epigraphischen Zeugnissen des 3. Jahrhunderts und im manichaischen Material aus Turfan an der Seidenstrasse (Kopien des 9. und 10. Jahrhunderts von Originalen aus dem 3. bis 7. Jahrhundert) sind diese Sprachen zusammen und mit Wechselwirkungen belegt. Diese Quellengruppen bieten eine hervorragende und sehr zuverlassige Grundlage fur die Beschreibung. Literarisches, meist zoroastrisches, Mittelpersisch aus dem Sasanidenreich wurde ebenfalls berucksichtigt; nicht aber die "scholastische" zoroastrische Literatur des 9. Jahrhunderts, die eigene Regeln hat. Die Darstellung ist verstandlich, die Sprache der Belege deutlich gekennzeichnet. Im umfangreichen Kapitel zur Syntax werden die Belege in einer klaren Umschrift (Transkription) geboten, die Originalbelege (in Transliteration) sind in einem Verzeichnis aufgefuhrt und durch einen Stellenindex erschlossen. Forscher und Studenten der iranischen Sprach-, Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte, Manichaologen, Zentralasienforscher und Indogermanisten werden dieses Buch konsultieren
Book Synopsis Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics by : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Download or read book Papers from the 4th International Conference on Historical Linguistics written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume are revised versions of a selection from the papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, held at Stanford University on 26 30 March 1979. Papers at this conference, and in this volume, treat aspects of all current topics in historical linguistics, including topics that are only recently considered relevant, such as acquisition, structure, and language use.
Book Synopsis Sraosa in the Zoroastrian Tradition by : G. Kreyenbroek
Download or read book Sraosa in the Zoroastrian Tradition written by G. Kreyenbroek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :0199857636 Total Pages :461 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (998 download)
Book Synopsis The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty by : Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor
Download or read book The Linguistic Cycle : Language Change and the Language Faculty written by Department of English Arizona State University Elly van Gelderen Regents' Professor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.
Book Synopsis The Iranian Languages by : Gernot Windfuhr
Download or read book The Iranian Languages written by Gernot Windfuhr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iranian languages form the major eastern branch of the Indo-European group of languages, itself part of the larger Indo-Iranian family. Estimated to have between 150 and 200 million native speakers, the Iranian languages constitute one of the world’s major language families. This comprehensive volume offers a detailed overview of the principle languages which make up this group: Old Iranian, Middle Iranian, and New Iranian. The Iranian Languages is divided into fifteen chapters. The introductory chapters by the editor present a general overview and a detailed discussion of the linguistic typology of Iranian. The individual chapters which follow are written by leading experts in the field. These provide the reader with concise, non-technical descriptions of a range of Iranian languages. Each chapter follows the same pattern and sequence of topics, taking the reader through the significant features not only of phonology and morphology but also of syntax; from phrase level to complex sentences and pragmatics. Ample examples on all levels are provided with detailed annotation for the non-specialist reader. In addition, each chapter covers lexis, sociolinguistic and typological issues, and concludes with annotated sample texts. This unique resource is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will also be of interest to researchers or anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistics anthropology and language development. Gernot Windfuhr is Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Michigan; he has published widely on Persian and Iranian languages and linguistics and related languages, as well as on other aspects of Iranian culture including Persian literature and Pre-Islamic Iranian religions.
