Date: 28-Jun-2007 From: Liesbeth Kanis <kanisbrill.nl> Subject: Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb: Cheung
Title: Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb
Series Title: Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series
Published: 2007
Publisher: Brill
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Author: Johnny Cheung
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004154964 Pages: 626 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789004154964 Pages: 626 Price: U.S. $ 169.00
Abstract:
The Iranian group within the Indo-European language family consists of languages that were and are still spoken in Western and Central Asia, among which Persian, Balochi, Kurdish, Pashto, Shughni and Ossetic are the best known today and Avestan, Old and Middle Persian, Parthian, Bactrian, Khotanese, Sogdian and Choresmian in the past. This work aims to bridge the apparent gap in knowledge that exists between Indo-Europeanists and scholars of Iranian languages with regard to each other's fields.
The present work gives a critical survey of all the verbs that may have existed in Proto-Iranian as deduced from the attested Iranian descendants and their archaic sister language, Sanskrit. This is accompanied by an analysis of the morphology and assessment of the provenance.
Readership: Researchers and scholars in the field of Indo-European and (Indo-)Iranian Historical Linguistics
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