Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
American Journal of Philology
Author: American Journal of Philology
Author: Basil Lanneau GildersleevePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Each number includes "Reviews and book notices."
Organic History of English Words
Author: John MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Bibliografijos žinios
Author: Iranian Loanwords in Syriac
Author: Claudia A. CiancagliniPublisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The book investigates the deep linguistic contact between Iranians and Arameans from the formation of the Achaemenid empire onwards, and focuses especially on the linguistic relationship between Middle Persian and Classical Syriac during the Sasanian empire, a subject on which a modern systematic study was still missing. The first part of the book is a detailed study of the historical and linguistic conditions which favoured the entry of a great number of Iranian words into Syriac and the linguistic consequences of such borrowings. The second part contains, in dictionary form, hundreds of entries in which each single Iranian loanword is considered, together with its etymon, alternative forms, and derivatives. Each entry also includes a list of occurrences and the relevant bibliography. A complete index of words closes the volume. The study of the prolonged contact between such prestigious languages as Syriac and Middle Persian, that are only attested in written records, enriches our knowledge of the typologies of language interference and bilingualism in ancient society. More specifically, it allows to recover a considerable amount of otherwise unattested Middle Persian vocabulary and provides new insights into the linguistic systems of both Syriac and Middle Persian.
Halliwelliana
Author: Justin WinsorEtymological Dictionary of Persian
Author: Garnik AsatrianPublisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9789004183414
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
The Etymological Dictionary of Persian is the most comprehensive and up-to-date work in the field of New Persian historical lexicology and etymology. It synthesizes the achievements of Iranian, and Indo-European, comparative linguistics over the last century with regard to the study of the inherited lexicon of Persian and includes the principal vocabulary of Persian.
Pesmi
Author: France PrešerenPublisher: Hermagoras
ISBN:
Category : 1800-1849
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Self-sown
Author: Prežihov VorancStudies in the Chronology of the Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan
Author: Nicholas Sims-WilliamsPublisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
ISBN: 9783700181842
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
More than 150 documents in Bactrian, the chief administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light during the last twenty-five years. These documents include letters, legal contracts, economic documents and a few Buddhist texts; many of them bear dates in the so-called "Bactrian era", which is also known from a few inscriptions, such as the Tochi valley inscriptions in Pakistan, but whose starting-point is controversial. The Bactrian documents have the potential to transform our knowledge of the history of the region during the 4th to 8th centuries CE, a period for which we have few contemporary records, but before they can be fully exploited as historical sources it is necessary to establish their relative and absolute chronology. The present volume aims to fulfil this need. In Part 1 we consider the dated documents, discussing the nature of the Bactrian calendar and the epoch of the Bactrian era, and concluding with a conspectus in which all the attested dates are converted to Julian dates on the basis of the facts and arguments presented. In Part 2 we turn to the equally important undated documents, systematically weighing up all types of evidence, whether historical, prosopographical, palaeographical, linguistic or orthographic, which may have a bearing on their dating. Part 3 provides a handy check-list of our conclusions, while the Appendices provide additional and supporting material including editions of the Tochi valley inscriptions and of a Pahlavi letter which was purchased together with the Bactrian documents. This book will be required reading for scholars and students of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic history of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. It will also be a useful resource for those interested in the languages, religions and numismatics of the region.