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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Thomas  Jügel (IPA: tʰomas jygəl)
Institution:	Universität Frankfurt am Main
Email:	click here to access email
Homepage:	http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/juegel.htm
State and/or Country:	Germany
Linguistic Field(s):	Historical Linguistics
Specialty:	Ergativity, West Middle Iranian
Subject Language(s):	Persian, Iranian Bactrian Persian, Old Parthian Pahlavi Kurdish, Central Persian, Manichaean Middle
Language Family(ies):	Iranian
Selected Publications:	Ergative remnants in Sorani Kurdish?
Courses Taught:	Middle Persian Old Persian past tense system in Iranian languages Sorani Kurdish Yaghnobi
Academic Paper Abstract:	Ergativität im Sorani-Kurdischen?
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