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Books by Agnes Korn
Up until quite recently, research on Iranian languages tended to be conducted in rather distinct ... more Up until quite recently, research on Iranian languages tended to be conducted in rather distinct disciplines, often with little interaction among them. A major turning point in bringing scholars from all theoretical persuasions together was the “First International Conference on Iranian Linguistics”, held in June 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. It inaugurated a tradition of interdisciplinary linguistic research on Iranian languages that we are proud to continue with the present volume. The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the “Third International Conference on Iranian Linguistics”, held in September 2009 at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Part one, historical and comparative Iranian syntax, contains chapters by Saloumeh Gholami, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Antje Wendtland, Agnes Korn, and Arseniy Vydrin. The first three contributions treat the morpho-syntax of two extinct East Iranian languages, revealing a fruitful and innovative synthesis of philological investigations with insights from syntactic typology. Korn’s chapter covers both synchronic and diachronic aspects of a typologically unusual development in a broad range of Iranian languages, while Vydrin’s chapter surveys the expression of counterfactuality within Iranian from a largely synchronic perspective, but informed with areal-typological explanations. Part two, the morpho-syntax of lesser-know Iranian languages, contains contributions by Daniel Paul, Gregory Stump and Andrew Hippisley, and two joint contributions, Oleg Belaev and Arseniy Vydrin, and David Erschler and Vitaly Volk. They reflect a growing interest in the “smaller” Iranian languages, not only as a source for comparative and historical Iranian philology, but also for the insights they offer for general linguistic theory. Part three, the linguistics of Modern Persian, presents new insights on aspects of Modern Persian. Naderi and Oostendorp’s contribution presents an OT-based re-assessment of epenthetic consonants, while Ganjavi revisits the issue of marking vs. non-marking of direct objects. Pirooz looks at control in finite subordinate clauses, while Deravi and Dommergues present the results of an empirical investigation of code-switching by highly proficient Persian-French bilinguals. Taken together, these contributions represent the dynamic and rapidly growing nature of Iranian linguistics, a field which has united linguists of all persuasions who share a strong commitment to the scientific investigation of Iranian languages, their structure, history and use.
The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative. Prospectiv... more The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative. Prospective refers to an event which is expected, presumed, or will take place while Proximative refers to its pre-stage; its canonical semantics is ‘be going/about to do something’. Highlighting historical, areal and typological aspects, the contributions in this book investigate the encoding of proximative and prospective semantics in genetically related and non-related languages. While Iranian and Turkic languages are the focal point, several contact languages of historical and typological relevance (and potentially of interest for phylogenetic studies), viz. Aramaic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Uralic, have been included. A comprehensive introductory section discusses both theoretical and methodological issues; it is followed by in-depth analysis articles and shorter case studies, the latter arranged geographically: Prospective and Proximative in languages spoken in Southern Europe, Iran and the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia and China. For most of these languages, the categories of Prospective and/or Proximative are described here for the first time. The research presented in this volume enriches our understanding of the Prospective and Proximative by identifying hitherto unknown encoding strategies, among them discourse, modal and aspectual particles, portmanteau morphemes expressing clusters of proximative and aspectual or evidential semantics, etc. Of particular typological significance are advances in the analysis of the semantic structures of proximative and prospective categories as well as of the sources and grammaticalization paths of the individual forms. This volume will be an inspiration for further research on the categories of Prospective and Proximative in the languages of Eurasia and beyond. It will be not only of interest for scholars dealing with the respective languages and language families, but also of great importance for historical and areal linguistics, language typology and theoretical linguistics.
Dieser Band ist der erste Versuch, den verstreut aufgezeichneten Omina, Verhaltensratschlagen und... more Dieser Band ist der erste Versuch, den verstreut aufgezeichneten Omina, Verhaltensratschlagen und Tabuvorschriften aus Georgien eine strukturierte Form zu geben und diese Gattung der traditionellen Kultur damit fur die systematische Forschung zuganglich zu machen. Die meisten der in der vorliegenden Sammlung in Ubersetzung prasentierten Materialien sind im 19. und in der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts aufgezeichnet worden. Viele der Texte stammen aus Archivmaterialien und werden hier erstmals veroffentlicht.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2003
This volume presents a selection of papers from two workshops on oral traditions in Iranian langu... more This volume presents a selection of papers from two workshops on oral traditions in Iranian languages. The first, "Journée d'études internationale « Orature et narration au monde iranophone » / Oral literature and Storytelling in the Iranophone world", was held at INaLCO (Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales) in Paris in May 2017. The second took place in June 2018 at Uppsala University, Sweden, and was titled "Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures: A Conference in Honour of Professor Bo Utas on his 80th Birthday". The plans for this project date back to November 2016, when Maryam Nourzaei, Uppsala University, spent a month in Paris working toward finalising her PhD thesis. In discussions with Johnny Cheung, then member of the research unit Mondes iranien et indien, they discovered that they shared an interest in oral traditions in Iranian languages. They decided to organise workshops addressing this issue, with the aim of demonstrating the current state of research on oral traditions among different groups in the Iranian-speaking cultural sphere. Another objective was to encourage the exchange of ideas between researchers in different academic disciplines-such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, literature, religious studies and folklore studies-on methods and models applied to studies of oral traditions in Iranian languages and cultures.
The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative. Prospectiv... more The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative. Prospective refers to an event which is expected, presumed, or will take place while Proximative refers to its pre-stage; its canonical semantics is ‘be going/about to do something’. Highlighting historical, areal and typological aspects, the contributions in this book investigate the encoding of proximative and prospective semantics in genetically related and non-related languages. While Iranian and Turkic languages are the focal point, several contact languages of historical and typological relevance (and potentially of interest for phylogenetic studies), viz. Aramaic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Uralic, have been included.
A comprehensive introductory section discusses both theoretical and methodological issues; it is followed by in-depth analysis articles and shorter case studies, the latter arranged geographically: Prospective and Proximative in languages spoken in Southern Europe, Iran and the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia and China. For most of these languages, the categories of Prospective and/or Proximative are described here for the first time.
The research presented in this volume enriches our understanding of the Prospective and Proximative by identifying hitherto unknown encoding strategies, among them discourse, modal and aspectual particles, portmanteau morphemes expressing clusters of proximative and aspectual or evidential semantics, etc. Of particular typological significance are advances in the analysis of the semantic structures of proximative and prospective categories as well as of the sources and grammaticalization paths of the individual forms.
This volume will be an inspiration for further research on the categories of Prospective and Proximative in the languages of Eurasia and beyond. It will be not only of interest for scholars dealing with the respective languages and language families, but also of great importance for historical and areal linguistics, language typology and theoretical linguistics.
This volume constitutes a contribution to the cross-linguistic study of ditransitive construction... more This volume constitutes a contribution to the cross-linguistic study of ditransitive constructions, arguably the most prominent construction in the domain of trivalent verbs. The ditransitive construction is defined, in accordance with typological practice, as a construction formed with verbs like ‘give’, which take Recipient and Theme arguments in addition to an Agent.
The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade and has been addressed in a number of important studies. However, certain questions are yet to be explored. The contributions in this volume touch upon a variety of languages, provide rich new data on the distribution of ditransitive constructions in lesser-researched languages, and substantiate the findings with corpus data.
Iranian languages are prominently represented in the volume. These languages are particularly intriguing not only because of the bewildering diversity in the ditransitive domain, but also because they present a number of challenges for ditransitive typology. This is due to the fact that these languages feature reduced case systems as well as differential object marking, which obscures the distinction between recipients and (prominent) patient and themes. The volume also features studies dealing with a number of other languages and language families, including modern Romance varieties and their ancestor Latin, Ancient Greek, Tocharian, as well as non-Indo-European languages (such as Mansi and Niger-Congo). Most of the studies take a descriptive and/or comparative perspective, as appropriate when dealing with endangered languages, but some contributions make use of other approaches and methodologies, ranging from psycholinguistic-experimental and corpus linguistic techniques to typological and theoretical analyses.
Recurrent themes in the present collection include factors underlying the choice of construction in the ditransitive alternation, the most important of which are lexical choices, information structure and discourse prominence of theme and recipient argument.
The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the “Third Intern... more The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the “Third International Conference on Iranian Linguistics”, held in September 2009 at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. This series of conferences brings together scholars from all theoretical persuasions has established a tradition of interdisciplinary linguistic research on Iranian languages. This volume represent the dynamic and rapidly growing nature of Iranian linguistics, a field which has united linguists of all persuasions who share a strong commitment to the scientific investigation of Iranian languages, their structure, history and use.
The main part of the book is a new systematic treatment of the historical phonology of Balochi. C... more The main part of the book is a new systematic treatment of the historical phonology of Balochi. Comparing important related languages (chiefly Avestan, New Persian and Parthian), the book analyses the development of Old Iranian sounds to the stage of Common Balochi and the changes leading from that stage to the variants spoken today in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and some other countries. The diversity and intensity of contacts with neighbouring languages are reflected in the Balochi lexicon of which selected fields are presented and discussed.
Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent... more Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several states. It is a region where a variety of languages intermingle, different religions jostle for attention, and traditional ways of living are challenged by modernity. The papers in this volume explore Balochistan's linguistic, socio-political and cultural diversity. Some take a historical perspective, and others examine the dramatic developments now shaping the region.
The present volume contains the contributions of an international symposium on linguistic contact... more The present volume contains the contributions of an international symposium on linguistic contact in Balochistan. The issues treated range from linguistic contact of Balochi and its neighbour languages in historical and modern times to sociolinguistic questions of multilingualism and to the role of Balochi as minority language in present-day Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and the Gulf States. The volume presents a comprehensive and multifacetted overview of current research on Balochi.
Metrische und linguistische Fragen zum Rgveda, der ältesten aus Indien überlieferten Dichtung, si... more Metrische und linguistische Fragen zum Rgveda, der ältesten aus Indien überlieferten Dichtung, sind Inhalt dieses Bandes. Dichter des Rgveda verwendeten beim Verfassen einer neuen Hymne Material aus bereits vorhandenen eigenen oder fremden Hymnen, deren Versmaß dem der neuen Hymne angepasst wurde. Es werden nun Mittel untersucht, die diesem Zweck gedient haben können.
Beigegeben sind eine Einleitung über die Forschungsgeschichte der indogermanischen Metrik, ein Appendix über die im Rgveda vorkommenden "Ableitungskomposita" und ein Index.
"This volume is the first attempt to present omen and taboo texts from Georgia in a structured fo... more "This volume is the first attempt to present omen and taboo texts from Georgia in a structured form, and to make this type of traditional culture accessible for systematic research. The texts, most of which were collected in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, are given in German translation of the Georgian, Russian and French originals. A sizeable portion of the material is from archive material, which is published here for the first time.
Dieser Band ist der erste Versuch, den verstreut aufgezeichneten Omina, Verhaltensratschlägen und Tabuvorschriften aus Georgien eine strukturierte Form zu geben und diese Gattung der traditionellen Kultur damit für die systematische Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Die meisten der in der vorliegenden Sammlung in Übersetzung präsentierten Materialien sind im 19. und in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts aufgezeichnet worden. Viele der Texte stammen aus Archivmaterialien und werden hier erstmals veröffentlicht."
Articles by Agnes Korn
Die Welt des Islams, 2014
This article, which is based on fieldwork carried out 2007–2009 in various regions of Georgia, st... more This article, which is based on fieldwork carried out 2007–2009 in various regions of Georgia, studies the Islamic circumcision ritual (Turkish sünnet, Azeri sünnǝt, Georgian ts‘inadatsveta) in the Caucasus and neighbouring regions. It specifically focusses on the tradition called Kirvalıq as practised by Azeri Turks in Georgia. This tradition establishes a relation between the boy and a kirva (“godfather”), who holds the boy during the ritual; the relation is understood as being a very close blood relation although the kirva and the boy are technically not related. In fact, the person chosen as kirva by the boy’s parents is often a member of another ethnic and/or religious group. This specific type of Kirvalıq is also found in Eastern Anatolia. We argue that the Kirvalıq serves the purpose of increasing the family’s network ties and thus contributes to the coherence of multiethnic and multireligious communities.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2018
The aim of the present paper is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal Bal... more The aim of the present paper is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal Balochi as spoken by the Afro-Balochi community. The Afro-Baloch have completely switched to Balochi and there are no traces of African languages in their speech. However, in comparison with other Balochi dialects of Iran on the one hand, and with Coastal Balochi dialects of Pakistan on other, Afro-Balochi shows archaic characteristics, particularly in its case system, in the demonstrative pronouns and in the alignment features. This might be due to the persisting social segregation of the Afro-Baloch and their limited access to education and media, resulting in reduced contact with the languages and dialects outside of their community.
Orientalia Suecana, 2019
Through the passage of time, changes take place in any language. Balochi has experienced historic... more Through the passage of time, changes take place in any language. Balochi has experienced historical changes in different layers of its structure. The aim of this article is to describe cases of /n/ in a specific Balochi dialect that are synchronically unexpected because, for instance, the equivalent word in Persian or in other Balochi dialects does not have an /n/, or there are certain forms in the paradigm of a lexeme that do not contain /n/. The focus is on the dialect spoken in and around the regions of Bompur and Iranshahr in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. The insertion of unetymological /n/ in words with more than one syllable often causes a change of syllable structure from an open to a closed syllable. It is possible that a preference for closed syllables has got the process of /n/ insertion underway. The reason why /n/ is chosen could be that /n/ is available for nasalization of a vowel. This nasal vowel can then be re-interpreted as VC.
Die Sprache, 2006
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Up until quite recently, research on Iranian languages tended to be conducted in rather distinct ... more Up until quite recently, research on Iranian languages tended to be conducted in rather distinct disciplines, often with little interaction among them. A major turning point in bringing scholars from all theoretical persuasions together was the “First International Conference on Iranian Linguistics”, held in June 2005 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. It inaugurated a tradition of interdisciplinary linguistic research on Iranian languages that we are proud to continue with the present volume. The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the “Third International Conference on Iranian Linguistics”, held in September 2009 at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. Part one, historical and comparative Iranian syntax, contains chapters by Saloumeh Gholami, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Antje Wendtland, Agnes Korn, and Arseniy Vydrin. The first three contributions treat the morpho-syntax of two extinct East Iranian languages, revealing a fruitful and innovative synthesis of philological investigations with insights from syntactic typology. Korn’s chapter covers both synchronic and diachronic aspects of a typologically unusual development in a broad range of Iranian languages, while Vydrin’s chapter surveys the expression of counterfactuality within Iranian from a largely synchronic perspective, but informed with areal-typological explanations. Part two, the morpho-syntax of lesser-know Iranian languages, contains contributions by Daniel Paul, Gregory Stump and Andrew Hippisley, and two joint contributions, Oleg Belaev and Arseniy Vydrin, and David Erschler and Vitaly Volk. They reflect a growing interest in the “smaller” Iranian languages, not only as a source for comparative and historical Iranian philology, but also for the insights they offer for general linguistic theory. Part three, the linguistics of Modern Persian, presents new insights on aspects of Modern Persian. Naderi and Oostendorp’s contribution presents an OT-based re-assessment of epenthetic consonants, while Ganjavi revisits the issue of marking vs. non-marking of direct objects. Pirooz looks at control in finite subordinate clauses, while Deravi and Dommergues present the results of an empirical investigation of code-switching by highly proficient Persian-French bilinguals. Taken together, these contributions represent the dynamic and rapidly growing nature of Iranian linguistics, a field which has united linguists of all persuasions who share a strong commitment to the scientific investigation of Iranian languages, their structure, history and use.
The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative. Prospectiv... more The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative. Prospective refers to an event which is expected, presumed, or will take place while Proximative refers to its pre-stage; its canonical semantics is ‘be going/about to do something’. Highlighting historical, areal and typological aspects, the contributions in this book investigate the encoding of proximative and prospective semantics in genetically related and non-related languages. While Iranian and Turkic languages are the focal point, several contact languages of historical and typological relevance (and potentially of interest for phylogenetic studies), viz. Aramaic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Uralic, have been included. A comprehensive introductory section discusses both theoretical and methodological issues; it is followed by in-depth analysis articles and shorter case studies, the latter arranged geographically: Prospective and Proximative in languages spoken in Southern Europe, Iran and the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia and China. For most of these languages, the categories of Prospective and/or Proximative are described here for the first time. The research presented in this volume enriches our understanding of the Prospective and Proximative by identifying hitherto unknown encoding strategies, among them discourse, modal and aspectual particles, portmanteau morphemes expressing clusters of proximative and aspectual or evidential semantics, etc. Of particular typological significance are advances in the analysis of the semantic structures of proximative and prospective categories as well as of the sources and grammaticalization paths of the individual forms. This volume will be an inspiration for further research on the categories of Prospective and Proximative in the languages of Eurasia and beyond. It will be not only of interest for scholars dealing with the respective languages and language families, but also of great importance for historical and areal linguistics, language typology and theoretical linguistics.
Dieser Band ist der erste Versuch, den verstreut aufgezeichneten Omina, Verhaltensratschlagen und... more Dieser Band ist der erste Versuch, den verstreut aufgezeichneten Omina, Verhaltensratschlagen und Tabuvorschriften aus Georgien eine strukturierte Form zu geben und diese Gattung der traditionellen Kultur damit fur die systematische Forschung zuganglich zu machen. Die meisten der in der vorliegenden Sammlung in Ubersetzung prasentierten Materialien sind im 19. und in der ersten Halfte des 20. Jahrhunderts aufgezeichnet worden. Viele der Texte stammen aus Archivmaterialien und werden hier erstmals veroffentlicht.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2012
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2003
This volume presents a selection of papers from two workshops on oral traditions in Iranian langu... more This volume presents a selection of papers from two workshops on oral traditions in Iranian languages. The first, "Journée d'études internationale « Orature et narration au monde iranophone » / Oral literature and Storytelling in the Iranophone world", was held at INaLCO (Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales) in Paris in May 2017. The second took place in June 2018 at Uppsala University, Sweden, and was titled "Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures: A Conference in Honour of Professor Bo Utas on his 80th Birthday". The plans for this project date back to November 2016, when Maryam Nourzaei, Uppsala University, spent a month in Paris working toward finalising her PhD thesis. In discussions with Johnny Cheung, then member of the research unit Mondes iranien et indien, they discovered that they shared an interest in oral traditions in Iranian languages. They decided to organise workshops addressing this issue, with the aim of demonstrating the current state of research on oral traditions among different groups in the Iranian-speaking cultural sphere. Another objective was to encourage the exchange of ideas between researchers in different academic disciplines-such as anthropology, sociology, linguistics, literature, religious studies and folklore studies-on methods and models applied to studies of oral traditions in Iranian languages and cultures.
The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative. Prospectiv... more The present volume addresses the linguistic categories of Prospective and Proximative. Prospective refers to an event which is expected, presumed, or will take place while Proximative refers to its pre-stage; its canonical semantics is ‘be going/about to do something’. Highlighting historical, areal and typological aspects, the contributions in this book investigate the encoding of proximative and prospective semantics in genetically related and non-related languages. While Iranian and Turkic languages are the focal point, several contact languages of historical and typological relevance (and potentially of interest for phylogenetic studies), viz. Aramaic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Uralic, have been included.
A comprehensive introductory section discusses both theoretical and methodological issues; it is followed by in-depth analysis articles and shorter case studies, the latter arranged geographically: Prospective and Proximative in languages spoken in Southern Europe, Iran and the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia and China. For most of these languages, the categories of Prospective and/or Proximative are described here for the first time.
The research presented in this volume enriches our understanding of the Prospective and Proximative by identifying hitherto unknown encoding strategies, among them discourse, modal and aspectual particles, portmanteau morphemes expressing clusters of proximative and aspectual or evidential semantics, etc. Of particular typological significance are advances in the analysis of the semantic structures of proximative and prospective categories as well as of the sources and grammaticalization paths of the individual forms.
This volume will be an inspiration for further research on the categories of Prospective and Proximative in the languages of Eurasia and beyond. It will be not only of interest for scholars dealing with the respective languages and language families, but also of great importance for historical and areal linguistics, language typology and theoretical linguistics.
This volume constitutes a contribution to the cross-linguistic study of ditransitive construction... more This volume constitutes a contribution to the cross-linguistic study of ditransitive constructions, arguably the most prominent construction in the domain of trivalent verbs. The ditransitive construction is defined, in accordance with typological practice, as a construction formed with verbs like ‘give’, which take Recipient and Theme arguments in addition to an Agent.
The issue of ditransitive constructions has enjoyed increased attention over the last decade and has been addressed in a number of important studies. However, certain questions are yet to be explored. The contributions in this volume touch upon a variety of languages, provide rich new data on the distribution of ditransitive constructions in lesser-researched languages, and substantiate the findings with corpus data.
Iranian languages are prominently represented in the volume. These languages are particularly intriguing not only because of the bewildering diversity in the ditransitive domain, but also because they present a number of challenges for ditransitive typology. This is due to the fact that these languages feature reduced case systems as well as differential object marking, which obscures the distinction between recipients and (prominent) patient and themes. The volume also features studies dealing with a number of other languages and language families, including modern Romance varieties and their ancestor Latin, Ancient Greek, Tocharian, as well as non-Indo-European languages (such as Mansi and Niger-Congo). Most of the studies take a descriptive and/or comparative perspective, as appropriate when dealing with endangered languages, but some contributions make use of other approaches and methodologies, ranging from psycholinguistic-experimental and corpus linguistic techniques to typological and theoretical analyses.
Recurrent themes in the present collection include factors underlying the choice of construction in the ditransitive alternation, the most important of which are lexical choices, information structure and discourse prominence of theme and recipient argument.
The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the “Third Intern... more The 13 chapters of this volume represent a selection of the papers presented at the “Third International Conference on Iranian Linguistics”, held in September 2009 at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. This series of conferences brings together scholars from all theoretical persuasions has established a tradition of interdisciplinary linguistic research on Iranian languages. This volume represent the dynamic and rapidly growing nature of Iranian linguistics, a field which has united linguists of all persuasions who share a strong commitment to the scientific investigation of Iranian languages, their structure, history and use.
The main part of the book is a new systematic treatment of the historical phonology of Balochi. C... more The main part of the book is a new systematic treatment of the historical phonology of Balochi. Comparing important related languages (chiefly Avestan, New Persian and Parthian), the book analyses the development of Old Iranian sounds to the stage of Common Balochi and the changes leading from that stage to the variants spoken today in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and some other countries. The diversity and intensity of contacts with neighbouring languages are reflected in the Balochi lexicon of which selected fields are presented and discussed.
Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent... more Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several states. It is a region where a variety of languages intermingle, different religions jostle for attention, and traditional ways of living are challenged by modernity. The papers in this volume explore Balochistan's linguistic, socio-political and cultural diversity. Some take a historical perspective, and others examine the dramatic developments now shaping the region.
The present volume contains the contributions of an international symposium on linguistic contact... more The present volume contains the contributions of an international symposium on linguistic contact in Balochistan. The issues treated range from linguistic contact of Balochi and its neighbour languages in historical and modern times to sociolinguistic questions of multilingualism and to the role of Balochi as minority language in present-day Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and the Gulf States. The volume presents a comprehensive and multifacetted overview of current research on Balochi.
Metrische und linguistische Fragen zum Rgveda, der ältesten aus Indien überlieferten Dichtung, si... more Metrische und linguistische Fragen zum Rgveda, der ältesten aus Indien überlieferten Dichtung, sind Inhalt dieses Bandes. Dichter des Rgveda verwendeten beim Verfassen einer neuen Hymne Material aus bereits vorhandenen eigenen oder fremden Hymnen, deren Versmaß dem der neuen Hymne angepasst wurde. Es werden nun Mittel untersucht, die diesem Zweck gedient haben können.
Beigegeben sind eine Einleitung über die Forschungsgeschichte der indogermanischen Metrik, ein Appendix über die im Rgveda vorkommenden "Ableitungskomposita" und ein Index.
"This volume is the first attempt to present omen and taboo texts from Georgia in a structured fo... more "This volume is the first attempt to present omen and taboo texts from Georgia in a structured form, and to make this type of traditional culture accessible for systematic research. The texts, most of which were collected in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, are given in German translation of the Georgian, Russian and French originals. A sizeable portion of the material is from archive material, which is published here for the first time.
Dieser Band ist der erste Versuch, den verstreut aufgezeichneten Omina, Verhaltensratschlägen und Tabuvorschriften aus Georgien eine strukturierte Form zu geben und diese Gattung der traditionellen Kultur damit für die systematische Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Die meisten der in der vorliegenden Sammlung in Übersetzung präsentierten Materialien sind im 19. und in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts aufgezeichnet worden. Viele der Texte stammen aus Archivmaterialien und werden hier erstmals veröffentlicht."
Die Welt des Islams, 2014
This article, which is based on fieldwork carried out 2007–2009 in various regions of Georgia, st... more This article, which is based on fieldwork carried out 2007–2009 in various regions of Georgia, studies the Islamic circumcision ritual (Turkish sünnet, Azeri sünnǝt, Georgian ts‘inadatsveta) in the Caucasus and neighbouring regions. It specifically focusses on the tradition called Kirvalıq as practised by Azeri Turks in Georgia. This tradition establishes a relation between the boy and a kirva (“godfather”), who holds the boy during the ritual; the relation is understood as being a very close blood relation although the kirva and the boy are technically not related. In fact, the person chosen as kirva by the boy’s parents is often a member of another ethnic and/or religious group. This specific type of Kirvalıq is also found in Eastern Anatolia. We argue that the Kirvalıq serves the purpose of increasing the family’s network ties and thus contributes to the coherence of multiethnic and multireligious communities.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2018
The aim of the present paper is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal Bal... more The aim of the present paper is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal Balochi as spoken by the Afro-Balochi community. The Afro-Baloch have completely switched to Balochi and there are no traces of African languages in their speech. However, in comparison with other Balochi dialects of Iran on the one hand, and with Coastal Balochi dialects of Pakistan on other, Afro-Balochi shows archaic characteristics, particularly in its case system, in the demonstrative pronouns and in the alignment features. This might be due to the persisting social segregation of the Afro-Baloch and their limited access to education and media, resulting in reduced contact with the languages and dialects outside of their community.
Orientalia Suecana, 2019
Through the passage of time, changes take place in any language. Balochi has experienced historic... more Through the passage of time, changes take place in any language. Balochi has experienced historical changes in different layers of its structure. The aim of this article is to describe cases of /n/ in a specific Balochi dialect that are synchronically unexpected because, for instance, the equivalent word in Persian or in other Balochi dialects does not have an /n/, or there are certain forms in the paradigm of a lexeme that do not contain /n/. The focus is on the dialect spoken in and around the regions of Bompur and Iranshahr in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. The insertion of unetymological /n/ in words with more than one syllable often causes a change of syllable structure from an open to a closed syllable. It is possible that a preference for closed syllables has got the process of /n/ insertion underway. The reason why /n/ is chosen could be that /n/ is available for nasalization of a vowel. This nasal vowel can then be re-interpreted as VC.
Die Sprache, 2006
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In: Walter Bisang & Andrej Malchukov (eds.): Grammaticalization Scenarios: Cross-linguistic variation and universal tendencies, 2020
In: Gian Pietro Basello, Matteo De Chiara & Sabir Badalkhan. Iranian Studies in Honour Of Adriano V. Rossi. Napoli: Unior Press, 2020
Orientalia Suecana, 2019
Through the passage of time, changes take place in any language. Balochi has experienced historic... more Through the passage of time, changes take place in any language. Balochi has experienced historical changes in different layers of its structure. The aim of this article is to describe cases of /n/ in a specific Balochi dialect that are unexpected because, for instance, the equivalent word in Persian or in other Balochi dialects does not have an /n/, or there are certain forms in the paradigm of a lexeme that do not contain /n/.The focus is on the dialect spoken in and around the regions of Bompur and Iranshahr in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. The insertion of unetymological /n/ in words with more than one syllable often causes a change of syllable structure from an open to a closed syllable. It is possible that a preference for closed syllables has got the process of /n/ insertion underway. The reason why /n/ is chosen could be that /n/ is available for nasalization of a vowel. This nasal vowel can then be re-interpreted as VC.
Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2019
The aim of this paper is to look at some of the problems with the traditional subdivisions of Ira... more The aim of this paper is to look at some of the problems with the traditional subdivisions of Iranian and at possible new approaches. It builds on an argument made in an earlier article, adding discussion and further illustrating problems in the data and methods involved in the traditional model of relations among the Iranian languages. It specifically points out that the traditional family tree is based on a set of isoglosses that is an artefact of the data that happened to be available at the time. In addition, the question arises whether the wave model or the concept of linguistic areas would be more adequate to account for the data. The discovery of a corpus of Bactrian manuscripts encourages a new approach. I argue that a sub-branch including Bactrian, Parthian and some other languages is a hypothesis that deserves to be tested; at the same time, the comparison with other Iranian languages as well as typological considerations permit to assess the role of language contact.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2019
The aim of the present article is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal B... more The aim of the present article is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal Balochi as spoken by the Afro-Balochi community. The Afro-Baloch have completely switched to Balochi and there are no traces of African languages in their speech. In comparison with other Balochi dialects of Iran on the one hand and Coastal Balochi dialects of Pakistan on the other, Coastal Balochi as spoken in Iran shows archaic characteristics, particularly in its case system, in the demonstrative pronouns and in the alignment features. This particularly applies to the speech of the Afro-Baloch, who due to persisting social segregation have limited access to education and media.
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2018
The aim of the present paper is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal Ba... more The aim of the present paper is to describe the morphosyntactic properties of Iranian Coastal Balochi as spoken by the Afro-Balochi community. The Afro-Baloch have completely switched to Balochi and there are no traces of African languages in their speech. In comparison with other Balochi dialects of Iran on the one hand and Coastal Balochi dialects of Pakistan on other, Coastal Balochi as spoken in Iran shows archaic characteristics, particularly in its case system, in the demonstrative pronouns and in the alignment features. This particularly applies to the speech of the Afro-Baloch, who due to persisting social segregation have limited access to education and media.
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2017
This article studies the nominal system and noun phrase of Bashkardi, a language of the Iranian f... more This article studies the nominal system and noun phrase of Bashkardi, a language of the Iranian family spoken in Southern Iran in the region of Bashakerd. Bashkardi is a very little studied language, and is in particular need of being documented because it is a minority language endangered by heavy influence from Persian. The article is based on recordings made by Ilya Gershevitch in 1956. In discussing the Bashkardi nominal system, I compare it to that of geographically or historically neighbouring languages such as Balochi, spoken nearby in the province (and also in the form of the Koroshi dialect spoken in Fars province to the west). From a historical perspective, Middle Persian and Parthian, the only two Western Iranian languages attested from Middle Iranian times, are adduced to elucidate the development of the Bashkardi nominal system. I argue that the nominal system of Bashkardi agrees with Persian and other Western Ir. languages in having lost the distinction between direct and oblique case (preserved in Kurmanji, Balochi etc.), but that a trace of the oblique case might be present in the possessive marker -ī. Like Middle Persian, Bashkardi employs adpositions to mark syntactic relations, but none of these is used in a systematic way as of yet.
Indogermanische Forschungen, 2016
Relations within the Iranian branch of Indo-European have traditionally been modelled by a tree t... more Relations within the Iranian branch of Indo-European have traditionally been modelled by a tree that is essentially composed of binary splits into sub-and sub-subbranches. The present article will argue that this tree is rendered outdated by new data that have come to light from contemporary and ancient languages, and that it was methodologically problematic from the outset, both for reasons of the isoglosses on which it is based and for not taking into account distinctions such as shared innovations vs. shared archaisms and marked vs. unmarked language changes. Conversely, a set of non-trivial morphological innovations, particularly in the verbal system, shared by Bactrian, Parthian and some neighbouring languages appears to suggest a subbranch which I will call "Central Iranian". The second part of the paper will present a tentative reconstruction of the nominal system of Central Iranian. This reconstruction wishes to show the result one arrives at when trying to reconstruct a subbranch as strictly bottom-up as possible, i.e. using only the data from the languages under study, and avoiding to profit from Old Iranian data and from our knowledge about the protolanguages. " Central Iranian " would be closely related to Sogdian, and would share, by language contact, a number of features with Middle Persian; at the same time, Bactrian and Sogdian also share features with individual Eastern Ir. languages.
INDIRAN: Newsletter of the Ancient India and Iran Trust, 2015
In: Agnes Korn & Andrej Malchukov (eds.): Ditransitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2018
In: Salvatore Gaspa, Cécile Michel & Marie Louise Nosch (eds.): Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD. Zea Books, 2017
This paper looks at three terms denoting the colour “red”, viz. Armenian karmir, the obviously co... more This paper looks at three terms denoting the colour “red”, viz. Armenian karmir, the obviously corresponding Sogdian word karmīr, and karmīl “scarlet” found in the Hebrew Bible. It will first briefly discuss the etymology of these words (summarising an argument made elsewhere) and argue that the words in question are a technical term for a red dye from Armenia produced from scale insects. We will then attempt to show that historical data and chemical analysis of extant historical textiles confirm the Armenian red as the relevant dye.
In: Daniel Petit, Georges-Jean Pinault & Claire Le Feuvre. Verbal Adjectives and Participles in Indo-European Languages / Adjectifs verbaux et participes dans les langues indo-européennes. Bremen: Hempen, 2017
Ancient Indo-European verbal nouns and adjectives are integrated into the verbal system in many l... more Ancient Indo-European verbal nouns and adjectives are integrated into the verbal system in many later Indo-European languages. This paper looks at the forms and uses of verbal nouns in a variety of Balochi dialects.
In: Agnes Korn & Irina Nevskaya (eds.): Prospective and Proximative in Turkic, Iranian and beyond. Iran -- Turan. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2017
In: Jared Klein, Brian Joseph & Matthias Fritz (eds.): Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics, 41/1, de Gruyter, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK). Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017
In: Velizar Sadovski & David Stifter (eds.): Iranistische und indogermanistische Beiträge in Memoriam Jochem Schindler (1944-1994). Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012
In: Hans Henrich Hock & Elena Bashir (eds.): The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia: A Comprehensive Guide [The World of Linguistics 7], pp. 51-66
The book under review is a tribute to D. Neil MacKenzie, late professor emeritus of Iranian studi... more The book under review is a tribute to D. Neil MacKenzie, late professor emeritus of Iranian studies at GoÈttingen University and author of numerous important works on a large number of Iranian languages. Appropriately, the present volume assembles a fine collection of articles by ...
The progressive manifests itself in various ways across Iranian languages. The evolution of this ... more The progressive manifests itself in various ways across Iranian languages. The evolution of this category, influenced to some extent by internal factors and sometimes by language contact, presents an interesting case of parallel development in related languages that are geographically very distant from each other. This presentation will demonstrate a parallel development of a specific type of synthetic progressive in two allegedly Southwestern Iranian languages: Muslim Tat (MT), spoken in northeastern Azerbaijan, and Bashkardi (Bš), spoken in southern Iran.
Poster for the Deutsche Orientalistentag 2010 in Marburg
The Workshop will address the relation of phonology and phonetics in Avestan and neighbouring lan... more The Workshop will address the relation of phonology and phonetics in Avestan and neighbouring languages such as Old Indic, Old Persian and Middle Iranian. Being limited to written sources, the study of these languages necessarily starts from the graphemic representation that the scripts offer, which vary considerably as to their approach to phonetics and phonology. Accordingly, many academic works (including text editions) on Avestan and neighbouring languages show either a mixture of phonological and phonetic rendering of the language or a more transliteration-based approach. For a better view on the Avestan data, the workshop will take a broader view and include also discussion of neighbouring languages to shed light on differences and shared features of representation of phonetics and phonology of these languages in their orthographies. Additional information can be gained from loanwords which could shed light on the pronunciation of the donor language (for instance, Avestan words found in Middle Persian such as the various renderings of Av. aṣ̌a-). The issue is of central importance for Avestan philology and text edition.
The ICIL conferences aim to bring together linguistis and philologists of different theoretical b... more The ICIL conferences aim to bring together linguistis and philologists of different theoretical backgrounds working on Iranian languages.
The workshop proposes to look at ditransitive constructions in various languages. Topics that the... more The workshop proposes to look at ditransitive constructions in various languages. Topics that the papers could address might include (among others):
- Morphological object marking (identical marking of direct and indirect objects; double accusatives; optional object marking; development of object markers; dative drift);
- Hierarchy-driven object marking / Differences between direct and indirect objects in relation to animacy hierarchies; to pro-drop; to word order; to diatheses;
- Syntactic objects (e.g. status of objects in complex predicates; status of indirect objects and the definition of core arguments)
As a cross-linguistic phenomenon, the prospective, also called proximative or immediate/imminent,... more As a cross-linguistic phenomenon, the prospective, also called proximative or immediate/imminent, near/nearest or close future, has attracted the attention of general linguists only recently. Reference works still understand the "prospective" only as the future aspect meaning of present tense forms of Russian perfective verbs. Johanson, on the other hand, opposes the prospective to intraterminal, adterminal and postterminal aspects and defines the Turkish form -acak as a prospective one. Comrie defines the prospective by its opposition to Perfect and also opposes the prospective to the future and to expressions of intention; he draws attention to the combinability of English prospective forms (be going / about to do) with tense markers.
Typological investigations carried out by Dahl and Bybee found evidence for postulating a cross-linguistic category "prospective".
So far, typological studies of the category have had to rely on data from a rather limited number of languages, and investigations studying the phenomenon in more languages are urgently needed. The areal distribution of prospective forms and phenomena of language contact have not yet been studied. Other topics that need to be investigated include the relations between the categories of Prospective, Future, Intention and furher phenomena dealing with planned and/or anticipated actions.
The Symposion will provide a forum to present case studies of various languages of Eurasia. It will look at a large number of Turkic and Iranian varieties in contact with each other, as well as with other languages (Mongolic, Tungusic, Ugric, Armenian, Aramaic, etc.).
Papers from this conference have been published as: Jila Ghomeshi, Carina Jahani, Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz (eds.) 2016: Further Topics in Iranian Linguistics. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics, held in Bamberg on 24-26 August 2013. ISBN: 978-2-910640-44-6
Papers from this conference have been published as: Geoffrey Haig, Carina Jahani (eds.) 2012, in: Orientalia Suecana 61, pp. 123-209. ISSN: 0078-6578
Papers from this conference have been published as: Agnes Korn, Geoffrey Haig, Simin Karimi, Pollet Samvelian (eds.) 2011: Topics in Iranian Linguistics [Beiträge zur Iranistik 34]. Wiesbaden: Reichert. ISBN: 978-3-89500-826-9
Papers from this conference have been published as: Agnes Korn (ed.) 2009, in: Orientalia Suecana 58, pp. 188. ISSN: 0078-6578
Papers from this conference have been published as: Carina Jahani, Agnes Korn, Paul Titus (eds.) 2008: The Baloch and Others: Linguistic, historical and socio-political perspectives on pluralism in Balochistan. Wiesbaden: Reichert (2nd ed. 2012)
Balochistan has throughout history been one of the important meeting points between the Indian Su... more Balochistan has throughout history been one of the important meeting points between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. In today's Balochistan, divided between Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan different socioeconomic systems are found in different regions, a variety of languages are spoken side by side often by the very same person, different religious professions are encountered, and traditional ways of living are challenged by modernism.
The conference wants to highlight various aspects of plurality in presentday Balochistan and researchers will present papers with a focus on socioeconomic, religious, linguistic, literary and cultural plurality in Balochistan.
Papers from this conference have been published as: Carina Jahani, Agnes Korn (eds.) 2003: The Baloch and Their Neighbours: Ethnic and Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times. . Wiesbaden: Reichert
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Mar 12, 2015
This paper studies some grammaticalisation phenomena in the verb system in Iranian. It will speci... more This paper studies some grammaticalisation phenomena in the verb system in Iranian. It will specifically look at those categories where grammaticalisation features prominently: while not all categories of the verb system show grammaticalisation processes, some do so in a large number of Iranian languages, and using the same morphological elements. Transitivity is a category of high grammaticalisation activity in Iranian. It is marked by analogical extension of inherited verbal stem formation as well as by the introduction of a number of double paradigms in the PAST domain (which arise as the inherited aorist and perfect stems are lost in late Old Iranian): the “inchoative suffix” -s- is used for the formation of secondary intransitives in several Middle Iranian languages, and new suffixes arise for the formation of causatives. While the intransitive perfect / past is expressed by the perfect participle / past stem with the copula in most of Middle Iranian and later on, the transitive paradigm shows a different pattern: Khotanese employs an enlarged form of the perfect participle, some languages form ergative constructions and others use a transitive auxiliary. As is common for auxiliaries in grammaticalisation processes, phonological reduction occurs; so the verb ‘hold/have’ that forms the transitive perfect in Sogdian (in a pattern entirely parallel to Germanic and Romance have vs. be perfects) merges with the past stem, and the origin of the transititive formation in Ossetic is not transparent any more (probably Ir. *dā- < PIE *dheh1 ‘put’, thus parallel to Latin formations of the type rube-facio ‘make red’). Secondly, the categories of particularly high grammaticalisation activity themselves appear to form clusters. A small number of verbs are used as auxiliaries in various patterns: ‘do’, ‘hold’ and ‘put’ on the transitive / active side and ‘be’ as well as verbs of movement on the intransitive / passive side (perfect / past domain, passive voice, intransitive / passive pairs of the potential construction). The same verbs are also the most prominent light verbs, suggesting that the rise of complex predicates is a process parallel to the grammaticalisation of auxiliaries. Both periphrastic verbal patterns and complex predicates come in pairs of a transitive / active and a intransitive / passive counterpart; it thus seems that categories of transitivity, control and actionality forms one cluster of particularly high grammaticalisational activity in Iranian. Another cluster is the field of aspect, durativity and mood. Progressives (often becoming present tense formations) may be grammaticalised by particles or locational constructions (‘I am [in the position of] going’). Auxiliaries are also found, among which, again, is ‘hold/have’ and the verb ‘stand’, recalling the use of verbs of movement in intransitive / patterns just mentioned. A third field of particular interest is animacy and person marking. Differential marking of direct and indirect objects as well as of agents in the ergative domain is common throughout Iranian and is expressed by case suffixes and adpositions. A possibly related phenomenon is the conversion of demonstratives to copula forms, by which process gendered copula forms of the 3SG arise in languages as diverse as Pashto and Zazaki. Conversely, verbal endings assume pronominal function following a loss of case distinctions and changes in ergativity patterns.
The journal, which is devoted to Indological, Iranian, Semitic, Sinological, and Turkic Studies a... more The journal, which is devoted to Indological, Iranian, Semitic, Sinological, and Turkic Studies aims to present current research relating to philological, linguistic, and literary topics. It contains articles, reviews, and review articles. Submissions for publication and books for review are welcome. Books will be reviewed as circumstances permit. Publications received can not be returned. Manuscripts, books for review, orders, and other correspondence concerning editorial matters should be sent to:
Besides noteworthy instances of inherited verbal inflexion such as the optative in -ā- in Balochi... more Besides noteworthy instances of inherited verbal inflexion such as the optative in -ā- in Balochi and Judaeo-Tat, marking of TAM categories in New Western Iranian is mostly achieved by way of particles / verbal prefixes. Of central importance is the prefix bi- / be-, which is grammaticalised in New Persian as a marker of the subjunctive and the imperative. These forms differ from the indicative in that the latter is marked with mī-, but the inflexion is essentially identical. We argue that the influence of Persian has had a multiple effect on the TAM system of other Ir. languages. First insofar as prefixes have been borrowed, second insofar as the use of preexisting prefixes has been adjusted to fit the usage of Persian prefixes, and thirdly insofar as different prefixes have coalesced into one under the influence of Persian (such as be-, ba- etc. yielding be- in Bashkardi and other languages). Dialectal variations such as seen in Tat thus carry valuable diachronic information.
The progressive manifests itself in various ways across Iranian languages. The evolution of this ... more The progressive manifests itself in various ways across Iranian languages. The evolution of this category, influenced to some extent by internal factors and sometimes by language contact, presents an interesting case of parallel development in related languages that are geographically very distant from each other. This presentation will demonstrate a parallel development of a specific type of synthetic progressive in two allegedly Southwestern Iranian languages: Muslim Tat (MT), spoken in northeastern Azerbaijan, and Bashkardi (Bs), spoken in southern Iran.
This collection of articles is based on a selection of papers presented at a panel entitled “Iran... more This collection of articles is based on a selection of papers presented at a panel entitled “Iranian minority languages” which was held at the 30th German Congress of Orientalists at Freiburg i.Br. University in September 2007. For the present collection, the selected papers have been substantially enlarged and/or revised. Also included is an article whose authors could not attend the 2007 panel. The title “Iranian minority languages” is here interpreted rather broadly to refer to Iranian minority languages and dialects spoken in Iran today, and to Iranian varieties which are, or were, spoken in other countries. (The term “Iranian varieties” will occasionally be used in this collection to include the notions of “language” and “dialect”.) In spite of the geographical distance between the languages encompassed by this term – reaching from Iraqi Kurdistan, Eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus via Iran and Afghanistan to the Pamir – most of them share a number of features. For instance, th...
Abstracta Iranica
Ce recueil d’articles de Bo Utas (professeur emerite d’iranologie de l’Universite d’Uppsala), pub... more Ce recueil d’articles de Bo Utas (professeur emerite d’iranologie de l’Universite d’Uppsala), publie a l’occasion de son 75e anniversaire, fait suite a un volume parallele paru cinq ans auparavant (Manuscript, Text and Literature. Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts, ed. par Carina Jahani et Dariush Kargar. Wiesbaden, Reichert 2008, Beitrage zur Iranistik 29 [voir les details sur le site de l’editeur]) qui regroupait des travaux de Bo Utas sur la litterature iranienne. Le presen...