The Persian language in history
Edited by Mauro Maggi Edited by Paola Orsatti
Fourteen papers on a diversity of themes relating to the grammar and the vocabulary of Persian, Middle Persian texts, non-standard and early varieties of Persian, and dialects of Iran. Editions of so far unpublished texts are also included. Contributions by Gerardo Barbera, Claudia A. Ciancaglini, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Ela Filippone, Daniele Guizzo, Mohammad Hasandust, Judith Josephson, Gilbert Lazard, David N. MacKenzie (†), Mauro Maggi, Paola Orsatti, Elio Provasi, Hassan Rezai Baghbidi, and Riccardo Zipoli. For students of Persian, Iranian philology, and comparative and general linguistics.
The volume – of interest to students of Persian, Iranian philology, and comparative and general linguistics – contains fourteen papers that cover a diversity of themes relating to the history of the Persian language, including Middle Persian. Editions of so far unpublished texts and new language materials are also included. In Part I (Historical and descriptive grammar of Persian), Claudia A. Ciancaglini traces the formation of the periphrastic verbs of the “noun + kardan” type back to Indo-Iranian and suggests that such verbs in neighbouring non-Iranian languages are due to the influence of Persian and other Iranian languages; Judith Josephson surveys the devices developed in Middle Persian to convey various degrees of definiteness and deixis; Paola Orsatti recognises a deictic suffix -i in New Persian and documents its history in early and classical texts; and Gilbert Lazard provides a theoretical reference frame for the problem whether New Persian has one or more postnominal suffixes -i. In Part II (Middle Persian), Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst surveys the history of research on the Manichaean Middle Persian texts from Turfan; and Hassan Rezai Baghbidi offers a new edition and translation of the Middle Persian and Chinese inscription from Xi’an. In Part III (Non-standard New Persian), Elio Provasi provides an edition with translation, commentary, and glossary of seven unpublished New Persian fragments in Manichaean script from Turfan; Ela Filippone studies the language and translation techniques of the early dialectal translation of the so-called “Qor’an-e Qods”; David N. MacKenzie’s unpublished index to the “Early Jewish-Persian argument” published by him in 1968 appears here posthumously; and Mauro Maggi and Paola Orsatti publish and translate two Persian hymns in Syriac script from manuscripts in the Mingana Collection. In Part IV (Literary New Persian), Mohammad Hasandust identifies and provides with an etymology eight words occurring in literary sources but so far ignored by Persian lexicography, and Riccardo Zipoli publishes a sample of a dictionary of obscene terms that, once completed, will assist in the study of texts tabooed on account of their vocabulary. In Part V (Dialectology), Gerardo Barbera offers an thorough presentation of the Minabi lexicon relating to the palm in comparison with other dialects of the area and with Persian, while Daniele Guizzo deals with Talesi terms for celestial bodies and weather phenomena and studies their position relative to neighbouring languages.
- Edited by Mauro Maggi
- Edited by Paola Orsatti
"Le present volume dedie a Michele Piemontese etait d'abord envisage comme un recueil d'articles resultat d'un atelier organise en 2006 par Paola Orsatti, mais il a ete elargi de facon a y inlcure des chercheurs non italiens. Il regroupe finalement quatorze contributions variees sur la linguistique et la philologie du persan, du moyen-perse et des langues minoritaires de l'Iran." Agnes Korn, Abstracta Iranica, Volume 34-35-36, 2016, document 6
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„Le présent volume dédié à Michele Piemontese était d’abord envisagé comme un recueil d’articles résultat d’un atelier organisé en 2006 par Paola Orsatti, mais il a été élargi de facon à y inlcure des chercheurs non italiens. Il regroupe finalement quatorze contributions variées sur la linguistique et la philologie du persan, du moyen-perse et des langues minoritaires de l’Iran.“<br/><br/>Von: Agnes Korn<br/>In: Abstracta Iranica, Volume 34-35-36, 2016, document 6. URL: <a target="_blank" href="http://abstractairanica.revues.org/42024">http://abstractairanica.revues.org/42024</a><br/>------------------------------------<br/>„The volume is the result of a collaboration between two authors, Mauro Maggi and Paola Orsatti, who represent two different backgrounds, Indo-Iranian philology and Persian language and literature, respectively. It contains, as stated in its preface in a c1ear and comprehensive way, fourteen papers grouped thematically into five section. (...) In my opinion, the main qualities of this volume are the following: the high seientific level (...) the inner cohesion and, finally, the innovative approaches and new materials which make each paper a point of departure for further research. (...) The reviewer has read this volume with pleasure and benefit. The editors and contributors must be highly commended for an important volume.“<br/><br/>Von Chiara Barbati<br/><br/>In: Orientalische Literaturzeitung, Band 110, Heft 2, 2015, S. 155-158.<br/><br/><br/>--------------------------------------<br/>„Wer vieles bringt, wird manchem etwas bringen, heißt es bei Goethe. Dieser Satz gilt in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur erfahrungsgemäß ganz besonders bei Sammelbänden aller Art. So ist es Rez. auch hier ergangen, der aber gerne bekennt, manchen Beitrag mit einigem Gewinn gelesen zu haben.“<br/><br/>Rüdiger Schmitt<br/><br/>In: Kratylos. 57 (2012). S. 170-175.
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