Chotano-Sogdica : linguistic studies on Sogdian and Khotanese / Nicholas Sims-Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sims-Williams, Nicholas, author.

Series:

Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse) ; 948. Band.

Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik ; nr. 93.

Grammatica Iranica ; Band 4.

Serie orientale Roma ; nr. 47.

Sitzungsberichte (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse), 0029-8832 ; 948. Band

Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik ; Nr. 93

Grammatica Iranica ; Band 4

Serie orientale Roma, 0582-7906 ; Nr. 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sogdian language.

Khotanese language.

Physical Description:

xl, 305 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, [2025]

Summary:

During more than half a century, from 1972 onwards, Nicholas Sims-Williams has published many important articles on the older Iranian languages, especially Eastern Middle Iranian (Sogdian, Bactrian and Khotanese). Virtually all of his articles on Sogdian and Khotanese are collected in the present volume, together with three entirely new papers entitled "Is there a 'predicative instrumental' in Sogdian?", "Yaghnobi and the Sogdian 'rhythmic law'" and "The locative singular in Old Khotanese". The additions and corrections which have become necessary as a result of fifty years of progress in the understanding of these languages are provided throughout, but carefully distinguisted from the original text, making it easy to locate references to the earlier versions. The book is completed with detailed indexes and will be an essential reference for students and scholars interested in Central Asian history and literature as well as in Iranian and Indo-European linguistics. back cover

Contents:

Overview

1. Sogdian

Writing and phonology

2. A Sogdian ideogram

3. Notes on Sogdian palaeography

4. The Sogdian sound-system and the origins of the Uygur script

5. Another Sogdian ideogram?

Morphology and syntax

6. On the plural and dual in Sogdian

7. Some Sogdian denominal abstract suffixes

8. The double system of nominal inflection in Sogdian

9. The Sogdian "rhythmic law"

10. Chotano-Sogdica II : Aspects of the development of nominal morphology in Khotanese and Sogdian

11. The development of the Sogdian verbal system

12. The triple system of deixis in Sogdian

13. On the historic present and injunctive in Sogdian and Choresmian

14. The denominal suffix -ant- and the formation of the Khotanese transitive perfect

15. The Sogdian potentialis

16. Review of Antje Wendtland : Die Entwicklung von Demonstrativ-pronomen zu Artikeln in Soghdischen

17. Plural and collective in the Sogdian ancient letters

18. Chotano-Sogdica III : Old Khotanese u, -u, -ū

19. Is there a "predicative instrumental" in Sogdian?

20. Yaghnobi and the Sogdian "rhythmic law"

21. The locative singular in old Khotanese

Lexicon and etymology

22. Chotano-Sogdica [I]

23. Sogdian ''δprm and its cognates

24. Sogdian kw and Slavonic kŭ

25. Two words in the Sogdian version of the Antirrheticus of Evagrius Ponticus

26. Khotanese bryā̆ndama- "dearest" and its Indo-European background

27. "Hunger" and "thirst" in Sogdian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xvii]-xl) and indexes.

ISBN:

9783700196655

3700196652

OCLC:

1547962621

Publisher Number:

9783700196655