The Iranian languages / / edited by Gernot Windfuhr

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (961 p.)
• Disciplina: 491/.5
• Soggetto topico: Iranian languages - Grammar, Comparative; Iranian languages; Iranian languages - Syntax
• Altri autori: WindfuhrGernot
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: THE IRANIAN LANGUAGES; Copyright; BRIEF CONTENTS; FULL CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Chapter1 Introduction to The Iranian Languages; 1 Overview; Bibliography; Chapter 2Dialectology and topics; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Origins: The Central Asian component; 1.2 Ancient non-Iranian contact languages; 1.3 Listing of Iranian languages; 1.4 Predecessors of Modern Iranian languages; 1.5 Modern non-Iranian contact languages; 2 Phonology; 2.1 Early Iranian dialects; 2.2 West Iranian consonantal developments; 2.3 Innovations: SW drift vs. NW ; 2.4 East and West Iranian2.5 Stress; 3 Morphology and syntax; 3.1 Gender and animacy; 3.2 Cases and personal enclitics; 3.3 Deixis; 3.4 The verbal quincunx system; 3.5 Markers of aspect; 3.6 Present marker *-ant; 4 Syntax; 4.1 Word order typology: adjectival noun phrase; 4.1.1 Diachrony; 4.1.2 Urartian and Elamite substrates; 4.1.3 Iranian as a "buffer zone"; 4.2 Bundling West Iranian isoglosses; 4.3 The Iranian ergative construction; 4.4 Differential object marking; 4.5 Clause complementation; Bibliography and references; A Selected topical references; B Alphabetical; Chapter 3Old Iranian ; 1 Introduction1.1 The Old Iranian languages; 1.1.1 The Old and Young Avesta, Old and Young Avestan; 1.1.2 The oral background of the Avestan text; 1.1.3 The Avestan alphabet; 1.1.4 Stages of Avestan; 1.1.5 Old Persian; 1.1.6 The Old Persian script; 1.1.7 Old Iranian grammars; 1.2 The phonology of Indo-Iranian; 1.2.1 Consonants; 1.2.1.1 IIr. Velars; 1.2.1.2 IIr. Affricates; 1.2.1.3 IIr. š ž; 1.2.1.4 IIr. The laryngeals; 1.2.1.5 IIr. Liquids and nasals; 1.2.2 Vowels; 1.2.3 Proto-Indo-Iranian phoneme inventory; 1.2.4 Ablaut; 1.3 The phonology of Proto-Iranian; 1.4 Early Iranian dialects ; 1.5 Writing systems1.5.1 The Avestan script; 1.5.2 The Old Persian script; 2 Phonology; 2.1 The phonology of Avestan; 2.1.1 Vowel systems; 2.1.1.1 Notes on the vowels; 2.1.1.2 Vocalic length; 2.1.1.3 Diphthongs; 2.1.1.4 Hiatus; 2.1.1.5 IIr. r; 2.1.1.6 Nasalised vowels; 2.1.2 Consonant systems; 2.1.2.1 Notes on the consonants; 2.1.2.2 Sibilants; 2.1.2.3 'Shibilants'; 2.1.2.4 Distribution; 2.2 The phonology of Old Persian; 2.2.1 The vowels a ̆, ı ̆, u ̆; 2.2.2 Consonants; 2.2.2.1 Notes on the consonants; 2.2.3 Late Old Persian; 2.3 The morphophonology of Avestan and Old Persian; 2.3.1 Vowels ; 2.3.2.3a Groups at morpheme boundary
• Sommario/riassunto: The Iranian languages form the major eastern branch of the Indo-European group of languages, itself part of the larger Indo-Iranian family. Estimated to have between 150 and 200 million native speakers, the Iranian languages constitute one of the world's major language families. This comprehensive volume offers a detailed overview of the principle languages which make up this group: Old Iranian, Middle Iranian, and New Iranian. The Iranian Languages is divided into fifteen chapters. The introductory chapters by the editor present a general overview and a detailed disc
• Titolo autorizzato: The Iranian languages
• ISBN: 1-135-79703-X; 0-203-64173-6; 1-283-88723-1; 1-135-79704-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779302403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Language Family Series