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Book SynopsisThe series Perspectives on the Linguistics of Ancient Languages publishes research papers presented at the annual meetings of the International Syriac Language Project. The papers in this volume are specialised lexicographical studies in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Greek. Several of them concern the lexicography of the ancient Bible translations. There is also a chapter on Hebrew lexicography by the late David Clines, to whom the volume is dedicated.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction: Verbs in historical language contact.- Chapter 2: Historical Data.- Chapter 3: Anglo-French and Middle English as contact languages.- Chapter 4: A model of copying.- Chapter 5: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisWhen Greece Flew Across the Alps offers a reconstruction of the status of Greek studies in the vast territory lying between Spain and Russia and Austria and the Scandinavian Peninsula, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Although closely related to the revival of Greek studies in fifteenth-century Italy, European Hellenism acquired distinctive peculiarities due to the influence of the Reformation, the advent and spread of printing, and initiatives taken by individuals or institutions. By analyzing this important aspect of the reception of the Classics, this volume contributes to a better understanding of early modern European culture.   Contributors: Ovanes Akopyan, Johanna Akujärvi, Gianmario Cattaneo, Federica Ciccolella, Natasha Constantinidou, Iulian Mihai Damian, Christian Gastgeber, Tua Korhonen, Han Lamers, Marianne Pade, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, and Raf Van Rooy.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Graecia transvolavit Alpes Editor’s Note Contributors 1 Learning Greek in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Of Books and Men  Inmaculada Pérez Martín 2 How Guillaume Budé Created His Commentarii Linguae Graecae: Budé’s Greek Studies, 1494 to ca. 1540  Luigi-Alberto Sanchi 3 The Study of Greek in Guillaume Budé’s Collection of Greek Letters  Gianmario Cattaneo 4 Towards a Typology of Greek Books Printed in Sixteenth-Century Paris: Placing Teaching into the Printing Landscape  Natasha Constantinidou 5 Athenae Belgicae: Greek Studies in Renaissance Bruges  Han Lamers and Raf Van Rooy 6 Learning and Practicing (Classical) Greek at the University of Vienna (End of the Fifteenth through the Early Sixteenth Century)  Christian Gastgeber 7 Johannes Honterus and the Greek Renaissance in Transylvania  Iulian Mihai Damian 8 In Ecclesia Papistæa: Teaching Thucydides in Wittenberg  Marianne Pade 9 The Making and Remaking of Philipp Melanchthon’s Greek Grammar  Federica Ciccolella 10 How to Versify in Greek in Turku (Finland): Greek Composition at the Universities of the Swedish Empire during the Seventeenth Century  Tua Korhonen 11 Versificandi mania. University Teaching of Greek and Greek Verse and Prose in Dissertations in Sweden  Johanna Akujärvi 12 Preserving Orthodoxy: Greek Studies in Early Modern Russia  Ovanes Akopyan Bibliography Index of Manuscripts, Prints, and Archival Materials Index of Personal Names

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Book SynopsisSpoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700) addresses historians and literary scholars. It aims to recapture oral culture in a variety of literary and non-literary sources, tracking the echo of women’s voices, on trial, or bantering and gossiping in literary works, and recapturing those of princes and magistrates, townsmen, villagers, mariners, bandits, and songsmiths. Almost all medieval and early modern writing was marked by the oral. Spoken words and turns of phrase are bedded in writings, and the mental habits of a speaking world shaped texts. Writing also shaped speech; the oral and the written zones had a porous, busy boundary. Cross-border traffic is central to this study, as is the power, range, utility, and suppleness of speech. Contributors are Matthias Bähr, Richard Blakemore, Michael Braddick, Rosanna Cantavella, Thomas V. Cohen, Gillian Colclough, Jan Dumolyn, Susana Gala Pellicer, Jelle Haemers, Marcus Harmes, Elizabeth Horodowich, Carolina Losada, Virginia Reinburg, Anne Regent-Susini, Joseph T. Snow, Sonia Suman, Lesley K. Twomey and Liv Helene Willumsen.Trade Review"This collection of essays successfully recovers and reconstructs a variety of late medieval and early modern oral practices. [...] The essays in this volume provide remarkable insight into late medieval and early modern orality, demonstrating how recovering speech habits also affect larger historical, literary, and cultural discussions. [...] For many who could not read or write, orality provided a form of power as well as a sense of community and belonging. This theme courses throughout many of the essays in this volume, and indeed, is what makes it such a strong and intriguing read for historians and literary scholars alike." Chelsea McKelvey, Southern Methodist University in: Sixteenth Century Journal 48/2 (2017), pp. 505-506. "From the first cry at birth to the last words on the deathbed, oral communication is essential to humankind. Spoken words transmit ideas, shape identities, manage power, give pleasure. Obvious, yes, and yet all too easy to forget when interpreting the past through silent writings, images, and objects. Orality, nevertheless, was even more pervading in medieval and early modern times than today, and its interactions with writing more complex and mutual. Scholars are increasingly aware that recovering this dimension, albeit difficult and uncertain, is potentially revealing—as this book confirms.[...] thanks to the wide scope of its case studies, together with the methodological relevance of some, this collection has undoubtedly something valuable to offer to anyone interested in the study of oral culture and communication as an opportunity to sharpen and even transform our understanding of the Renaissance world." Luca Degl’Innocenti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, in: Renaissance Quarterly, 71/1 (2018), pp. 278-279Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Figures x List of Contributors xi Life and Works of Alexander Francis Cowan xii Bibliography of Alexander Cowan xiV Introduction 1 Thomas V. Cohen and Lesley K. Twomey Witches’ Words 1 Oral Transfer of Ideas about Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Norway 47 Liv Helene Willumsen 2 St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to the Internet 84 Susana Gala Pellicer Words on Trial 3 The Power of the Spoken Word Depositions of the Imperial Chamber Court: Power, Resistance, and ‘Orality’ 115 Matthias Bähr 4 Tracking Conversation in the Italian Courts 139 Thomas V. Cohen Preaching the Word 5 Tears for Fears: Mission Preaching in Seventeenth-Century France – a Double Performance 185 Anne Régent-Susini 6 Powerful Words: St Vincent Ferrer’s Preaching and the Jews in Medieval Castile 206 Carolina Losada 7 ‘A Most Notable Spectacle’: Early Modern Easter Spital Sermons 228 Sonia Suman Word on the Street 8 Orality and Mutiny: Authority and Speech amongst the Seafarers of Early Modern London 253 Richard J. Blakemore 9 ‘A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue’: Political Poems, Songs and Prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) 280 Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers 10 Proverbs and Princes in Post-Reformation England 300 Marcus Harmes and Gillian Colclough Gossip and Gossipers 11 The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice 321 Elizabeth Horodowich 12 Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art 343 Joseph T. Snow Prayer, Teaching, and Religious Talk 13 Oral Rites: Prayer and Talk in Early Modern France 375 Virginia Reinburg 14 The Seducer’s Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Erotodidactic Schooltexts 393 Rosanna Cantavella 15 Preaching God’s Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher 421 Lesley K. Twomey 16 Afterword 446 Michael J. Braddick Bibliography 463 Index 486

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Book SynopsisIn Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and cultural functions of these epigraphic objects, this study directly addresses these areas of concern, answering such basic questions as: Why were muzhiming buried in tombs? What distinguishes commemorative biography from dynastic history biography? And why did muzhiming develop into an essential commemorative genre esteemed by the upper classes? Furthermore, this study reveals how aspiring families used muzhiming to satisfy their obligations to deceased ancestors, establish a multi-generational sense of corporate identity, and strengthen their claims to elite status.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchants, diplomats and prisoners. The contributions shed light on different methods and contents of language teaching in a variety of academic, scholarly and missionary contexts in the Protestant and the Roman Catholic world. But they also look beyond the institutional history of Arabic studies and consider the importance of alternative ways in which the study of Arabic was persued. Contributors are Asaph Ben Tov, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Sonja Brentjes, Mordechai Feingold, Mercedes García-Arenal, John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Aurélien Girard, Alastair Hamilton, Jan Loop, Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Simon Mills, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Bernd Roling, Arnoud Vrolijk. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.Trade Review“The resulting book is a well-edited testimony to the great progress made by scholars of early modern Orientalism since Johann Fück’s seminal 1955 monograph. It offers thirteen individual contributions preceded by a helpful and well-written introduction from Jan Loop and followed by a usable index. […] it succeeds in both expanding the view to include the role of the wider networks of scholars, merchants and missionaries who pursued Arabic studies, incorporates the vital dimension of Arabic learnt on location in the Middle East, and gives us much new information about how the language was practically taught and learnt, as well as bringing to light understudied figures […]. It should find a welcoming readership above all amongst scholars of early modern intellectual history, and especially of orientalism, as well as amongst those practitioners of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies who take a keen interest in their own Fachgeschite.” James Weaver, University of Zurich in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung Volume 115, Issue 1 (2020).Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction Jan Loop Arabic Studies in the Netherlands and the Prerequisite of Social Impact – a Survey Arnoud Vrolijk Learning Arabic in Early-Modern England Mordechai Feingold Johann Zechendorff (1580–1662) and Arabic Studies in Zwickau’s Latin School Asaph Ben-Tov Arabia in the Light of the Midnight Sun: Arabic Studies in Sweden between Gustaf Peringer Lillieblad and Jonas Hallenberg Bernd Roling Sacred History, Sacred Languages: The Question of Arabic in Early Modern Spain Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Salamanca in the Early Modern Period Nuria Martínez-de-Castilla-Muñoz Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Rome: Shaping a Missionary Language Aurélien Girard The Qur’an as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe Alastair Hamilton Arabic Poetry as Teaching Material in Early Modern Grammars and Textbooks Jan Loop Learning to Write, Read and Speak Arabic Outside of Early Modern Universities Sonja Brentjes Learning Arabic in the Overseas Factories: The Case of the English Simon Mills Learning Oriental Languages in the Ottoman Empire: Johannes Heyman (1667–1737) between Izmir and Damascus Maurits H. van den Boogert The Life and Hard Times of Solomon Negri: An Arabic Teacher in Early Modern Europe John-Paul Ghobrial Short biographies of authors Index

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Book SynopsisWährend die lateinische Prosa der Renaissance-Autoren ansatzweise durch das Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance von René Hoven erschlossen ist, gab es bisher für die späteren Autoren noch kein Wörterbuch. Besonders fehlte eine stilistische Dokumentation. Eine genaue Dokumentation ist von epochengeschichtlichem Interesse und füllt nicht nur eine Lücke in der lateinischen Lexikographie, sondern bietet auch neues Material zum Vergleich mit dem Sprachgebrauch der Nationalsprachen. Im vorliegenden Wörterbuch werden neue Wörter registriert, der Schwerpunkt liegt aber auf den neuen Bedeutungen des antiken Sprachguts. Als Ausgangspunkt wurden kultur- und speziell philologiegeschichtlich aufschlussreiche Texte lateinischer Musterprosa ausgewählt, d.h. Texte von Autoren, die im Hinblick auf die lateinische Sprachpflege als vorbildlich galten. Da diese Musterprosa-Autoren sich bemühten, möglichst antike (und dann meistens klassische) Wörter zu gebrauchen, werden in diesem Wörterbuch nur solche Wörter und Wortbedeutungen aufgenommen, die bis zum 7. Jh. n. Chr. nicht bezeugt sind. While Renaissance Latin prose has been opened up by René Hoven in his ‘Lexique de la prose latine de la Renaissance’, there has been no dictionary for the later authors. Especially a stylistic documentation was missing. An exact documentation is of epoch-historical interest and not only fills a gap in existing Latin lexicography, but also offers new material for comparison with how vernacular languages were used. In this dictionary, new words are registered, but the focus is on the new meanings of Classic Latin words. As a starting point, culturally and philologically significant texts of Latin prose , were selected, i.e. texts by authors who were regarded as exemplary. Since these authors tried to use as many as possible ancient (and then mostly classical) words, this dictionary contains only those words and word meanings, which are not attested until the 7th century AD.Table of ContentsAbbildungsverzeichnis Sonderzeichenverzeichnis Anmerkung des Verlags De Helgi Nikitinski laudibus Vorwort Wörterbuch Deutsch-lateinischer Index

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Book SynopsisLaw and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and chronological scope showcases how power, legitimacy and language interact, moving the discussion beyond traditional issues of identity or the formation of nation-states and their institutions. What emerges are different strategies reflective of the diverse and pluralistic political, legal, and cultural worlds of the Middle Ages. Contributors are Michael H. Gelting, Dirk Heirbaut, Carole Hough, Anette Kremer, Ada Maria Kuskowski, Anders Leegaard Knudsen, André Marques, Matthew McHaffie, Bruce O’Brien, Paul Russell, Werner Schäfke, and Vincenz Schwab.Table of ContentsContents Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction  Jenny Benham, Matthew McHaffie, and Helle Vogt part 1 Translation and Interpretation of Law 1 Why Laws Were Translated in Medieval England: Access, Authority, and Authenticity  Bruce O’Brien 2 Translating Justinian: Transmitting and Transforming Roman Law in the Middle Ages  Ada Maria Kuskowski 3 Leges Iutorum: The Medieval Latin Translation of the Law of Jutland  Michael H. Gelting 4 The Languages and Registers of Law in Medieval Ireland and Wales  Paul Russell part 2 The Languages of Legal Practice and Documentary Culture 5 Latin and the Vernacular in Medieval Legal Documents: The Case of Denmark  Anders Leegaard Knudsen 6 Between the Language of Law and the Language of Justice: The Use of Formulas in Portuguese Dispute Texts (Tenth and Eleventh Centuries)  André Evangelista Marques 7 The Dangers of Using Latin Texts for the Study of Customary Law: The Example of Flemish Feudal Law during the High Middle Ages  Dirk Heirbaut 8 Sources of Legal Language: The Development of Warranty Clauses in Western France, ca.1030–ca.1240  Matthew McHaffie part 3 Methodology, Interaction, and Language 9 Law and Language in the Leges Barbarorum: A Database Project on the Vernacular Vocabulary in Medieval Manuscripts  Anette Kremer and Vincenz Schwab 10 ‘And since We are No Lawyers, We Will Void the Lawsuit with Battle Axes’! Voiding a Lawsuit in Old Icelandic Procedural Law  Werner Schäfke 11 Biblical Analogues for Early Anglo-Saxon Law  Carole Hough Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers, investigates modes of receiving and responding to Greeks, Greece, and Greek in early modern Europe (15th-17th centuries). The book's seventeen detailed studies illuminate the reception of Greek culture (the classical, Byzantine, and even post-Byzantine traditions), the Greek language (ancient, vernacular, and 'humanist'), as well as the people claiming, or being assigned, Greek identities during this period in different geographical and cultural contexts. Discussing subjects as diverse as, for example, Greek studies and the Reformation, artistic interchange between Greek East and Latin West, networks of communication in the Greek diaspora, and the ramifications of Greek antiquarianism, the book aims at encouraging a more concerted debate about the role of Hellenism in early modern Europe that goes beyond disciplinary boundaries, and opening ways towards a more over-arching understanding of this multifaceted cultural phenomenon. Contributors: Aslıhan Akışık-Karakullukçu, Michele Bacci, Malika Bastin-Hammou, Peter Bell, Michail Chatzidakis, Federica Ciccolella, Calliope Dourou, Anthony Ellis, Niccolò Fattori, Maria Luisa Napolitano, Janika Päll, Luigi-Alberto Sanchi, Niketas Siniossoglou, William Stenhouse, Paola Tomè, Raf Van Rooy, and Stefan Weise.Trade Review“Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe: 15th–17th Centuries is an engaging and wide-ranging volume for both historians and classicists, detailing with a diverse range of Greek receptions in this important period.” - Harriet Lander, University of Nottingham, in: Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2021), pp. 181–183Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Contributors Introduction: Receptions of Hellenism in Early Modern Europe  Natasha Constantinidou and Han Lamers Part 1: Access and Dissemination Part 2: Learning, Teaching, and Printing Greek 1 Aldus Manutius and the Learning of Greek: the Aldine Appendix  Paola Tomè (†) 2 From a Thirsty Desert to the Rise of the Collège de France: Greek Studies in Paris, c.1490–1540  Luigi-Alberto Sanchi 3 Teaching Greek with Aristophanes in the French Renaissance, 1528–1549  Malika Bastin-Hammou 4 A Professor at Work: Hadrianus Amerotius (1490–1560) and the Study of Greek in Sixteenth-Century Louvain  Raf Van Rooy 5 Greek History in the Early-Modern Classroom: Lectures on Herodotus by Johannes Rosa and School Notes by Jacques Bongars (Jena, 1568)  Anthony Ellis Part 3: Migration, Exchange, and Identity Cultural Encounters and Exchanges between ‘Greek East’ and ‘Latin West’ 6 From “Bounteous Flux of Matter” to Hellenic City: Late Byzantine Representations of Constantinople and the Western Audience  Aslihan Akişik-Karakullukçu 7 Icons of Narratives: Greek-Venetian Artistic Interchange, Thirteenth–Fifteenth Centuries  Michele Bacci 8 Barbaric and Assimilated Hellenes: Textual and Visual Images of Greek Scholars between Lapo da Castiglionchio (c.1405–1438) and Paolo Giovio (1483–1552)  Peter Bell 9 Maximos Margounios (c.1549–1602), his Anacreontic Hymns, and the Byzantine Revival in Early Modern Germany  Federica Ciccolella Perspectives on Greek Migrants in the West 10 Love and Exile in Michael Marullus Tarchaniota: Geographical Exile, Spiritual Homelessness  Niketas Siniossogliou 11 The Longs and Shorts of an Emergent Nation: Nikolaos Loukanes’s 1526 Iliad and the Unprosodic New Trojans  Calliope Dourou 12 From Courts to Cities: Greek Migration, Community Formation, and Networks of Mutual Assistance in Sixteenth-Century Italy  Niccolò Fattori Appropriations and Use: Cultural & Religious History, Archaeology, and Antiquarianism 13 The Greekness of Greek Inscriptions: Ancient Inscriptions in Early Modern Scholarship  William Stenhouse 14 Pirro Ligorio (1513–1583) and Greek Antiquity  Michail Chatzidakis 15 Ancient Coins and the Use of Greek History in Sicilia et Magna Graecia by Hubertus Goltzius (1525–1583)  Maria Luisa Napolitano Humanist Greek and the Reformation 16 Hyperborean Flowers: Humanist Greek Around the Baltic Sea, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  Janika Päll 17 “Graecia transvolavit Alpes”: the Evaluation of Humanist Greek Writing in Germany by Georg Lizel (1694–1761)  Stefan Weise General Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia blends insights from sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics and historical-comparative linguistics to shed new light on regional Tibeto-Burman language varieties and their relationships across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. The approach is inspired by leading Tibeto-Burmanist, David Bradley, to whom the book is dedicated. The volume includes twelve original research essays written by eleven Tibeto-Burmanists drawing on first-hand field research in five countries to explore Tibeto-Burman languages descended from seven internal sub-branches. Following two introductory chapters, each contribution is focused on a specific Tibeto-Burman language or sub-branch, collectively contributing to the literature on language identification, language documentation, typological analysis, historical-comparative classification, linguistic theory, and language endangerment research with new analyses, state-of-the-art summaries and contemporary applications.

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Book SynopsisIn The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French has been studied mainly from monolingual perspectives tracing the development towards modern Dutch or French. Van de Haar shows that the discussions on these languages were rooted in multilingual environments, in particular in French schools, Calvinist churches, printing houses, and chambers of rhetoric. The proposals that were formulated there to forge Dutch and French into useful forms were not directed solely at uniformization but were much more diverse.Trade Review“Van de Haar's thorough analysis of a variety of texts, ranging from educational writings to psalm translations, and her illustrative excursions to other (northern) language debaters leads to fruitful findings that contribute to our understanding of the literary culture in the sixteenth-century Low Countries.” Cora van de Poppe, Universiteit Utrecht. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 631–633.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Note to the Reader Prologue 1 Introduction: Fascinating Multilingualism  1 Introduction  2 Scope and Definitions  3 Methods and Sources  4 Outline 2 The Multilingual Low Countries  1 Introduction  2 Ruling Languages  3 The Languages of the Muses  4 International Communication  5 Conclusions 3 Trending Topics in European Language Reflection  1 Introduction  2 Latin and the Vernacular  3 Collecting, Comparing, Competing  4 Building the Vernacular  5 Purity and Eloquence  6 Conclusions 4 French Schools  1 Introduction  2 Defending Language Learning  3 Making and Teaching the Rules  4 Teaching Purity and Eloquence  5 Conclusions 5 Calvinist Churches  1 Introduction  2 Translating Psalms, Building Communities  3 Undoing Babel in Marnix’s Psalms  4 Dangerous Mixtures  5 Conclusions 6 Printing Houses  1 Introduction  2 Printing for the Patria  3 Orthography: A Storm in a Teacup?  4 Engaging the Public  5 Conclusions 7 Chambers of Rhetoric  1 Introduction  2 The Perks of Plurilingualism  3 Studying the Vernacular  4 The Rules of Dutch Poetry  5 Conclusions 8 Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Grammar of Purik Tibetan, Marius Zemp offers a comprehensive description of the phonologically archaic Tibetan variety spoken in Kargil, the capital of a region called Purik, situated in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, India. This book contains the most thorough and insightful description of the verbal system of a Tibetic language yet written and will be particularly relevant for scholars studying evidentiality. It also includes highly valuable discussions of a syntactically and pragmatically well-defined class of ideophones which Zemp calls “dramatizers” and of prosody – topics which are too often neglected in language descriptions. Finally, this book goes beyond what others have done in that Purik data are used to elucidate our understanding of Classical Tibetan and its origins.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 Purik  1.2 South and East Purik  1.3 Language Contact  1.4 Genetic Affiliation  1.5 Previous Research  1.6 Data  1.7 A Note on Pragmatics  1.8 The Method of Functional Reconstruction  1.9 Outline 2 Phonology  2.1 Synchronic Phonology  2.2 Diachronic Phonology 3 Noun Phrases  3.1 Derivation  3.2 Definiteness and Number  3.3 Demonstratives, Personal, Interrogative and Other Pronouns  3.4 Case  3.5 Discourse-structuring Morphemes 4 Sentences  4.1 Verbal Stems  4.2 Infinite Verbal Forms  4.3 Light Verbs  4.4 Copulas and Finite Clauses  4.5 Other Clause-Final Morphemes 5 Modification, Intensification, and Dramatization of Sentences  5.1 Adverbs  5.2 The Intensifier mana  5.3 Dramatizers  5.4 tʃoq ‘(at that) moment’ 6 Clause Linkage  6.1 Clause-linking -na  6.2 Subordinate Clauses without -na  6.3 Noun-Modifying Clauses  6.4 Other Content-attributing Strategies 7 Prosody  7.1 Declination  7.2 Focus  7.3 Final Rise (or Suspension)  7.4 Antitopics  7.5 Dramatizing Prosody  7.6 Final Lengthening  7.7 Pitch Contours Tied to Pragmatic Morphemes Appendices Appendix A: A Story of Three Brothers Appendix B.1: Reduplicated and Assonant Formations Appendix B.2: Basic Vocabulary References

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Book SynopsisIn Presented Discourse in Popular Science, Olga A. Pilkington explores the forms and functions of the voices of scientists in books written for non-professionals. This study confirms the importance of considering presentation of discourse outside of literary fiction: popular science uses presented discourse in ways uncommon for fiction yet not conventional for non-fiction either. This analysis is an acknowledgement of the social consequences of popularization. Discourse presentation of scientists reconstructs the world of the scientific community as a human space but also projects back into it an image of the scientist the public wants to see. At the same time, Pilkington’s findings strengthen the view of popularization that rejects the notion of a strict divide between professional and popular science.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisFour years after the publication of the Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume I (Brill, 2014), this volume present the second installment of the Corpus. Inspired by D.H. Müller’s pioneering studies of the 1900s, the authors publish a large body of folklore and ethnographic texts in Soqotri. The language is spoken by more than 100,000 people inhabiting the island Soqotra (Gulf of Aden, Yemen). Soqotri is among the most archaic Semitic languages spoken today, whereas the oral literature of the islanders is a mine of original motifs and plots. Texts appear in transcription, English and Arabic translations, and the Arabic-based native script. Philological annotations deal with grammatical, lexical and literary features, as well as realia. The Glossary accumulates all words attested in the volume. The Plates provide a glimpse into the fascinating landscapes of the island and the traditional lifestyle of its inhabitants.Table of ContentsPreface On This Volume Abbreviations of Lexicographic Tools Introduction The Texts Text 1 The Son of Cowhide | ابن ذي الجلود Text 2 How People Make Use of Milk on Soqotra | كيف يستفيد أهل سقطرى من الحليب Text 3 How People Treat Meat on Soqotra | كيف أهل سقطرى يعملون باللحم Text 4 A Wife’s Betrayal of Her Husband | المرأة الخائنة لزوجها Text 5 Oh Generation … | يا أيها الجيل … Text 6 My Step-Mother Says … | تقول خالتي Text 7 The Cow Named Ditbaḥt | قصة البقرة ديتبحت Text 8 Little Isa | قصة الولد ديعسياتن Text 9 How People Plant Palm Trees on Soqotra | كيف يغرس أهل سقطرى أشجار النخل Text 10 Drying and Trampling of Dates | ألتجفيف والعجن Text 11 Kinds of Dates on Soqotra | تمر نخل سقطرى Text 12 Riddles | الألغاز Text 13 A Rich Man Who Had Nothing | التاجر الخيالي Text 14 The Devil’s Seed | نطفة إبليس Text 15 A Man’s Advice to His Friend | نصيحة الرجل لزميله Text 16 A Kind Jinni Woman | الجنية اللطيفة Text 17 A Jinni Woman Who Advises Well | الجنية الناصحة Text 18 A Jinni Woman with Nails | جنية ذات مسمار Text 19 A Prayer Heard | الدعاء المستجاب Text 20 Cinderella | رميدة Text 21 When Animals Could Talk | الحيوانات الناطقة Text 22 The Four Teats | الضروع الأربعة Text 23 The Two Liars | كذبة الاثنين Text 24 A Son Rebukes His Mother | الولد العاتب لأمّه Text 25 The Fairy | الجنية اللطيفة Text 26 The Sultan’s Assembly | اجتماع السلطان Text 27 How People Built a House in Former Times | كيف كان الناس يبنون المنزل في الماضي Text 28 The Wicked Stepmother | الأم الغادرة Text 29 A Boy’s Wit | نكتة الولد Text 30 The Story of the Tribe Eter | قصة آتر Appendices Glossary List of Plates Plates Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic Bibliography and gives an overview of scholarship on South African language studies over the past 10 years. The introduction written by Menán du Plessis (Stellenbosch University) discusses the most recent developments in the field. The Linguistic Bibliography is compiled under the editorial management of Eline van der Veken, René Genis and Anne Aarssen in Leiden, The Netherlands. Linguistic Bibliography Online is the most comprehensive bibliography for scholarship on languages and theoretical linguistics available. Updated monthly with a total of more than 20,000 records annually, it enables users to trace recent publications and provides overviews of older material. For more information on Linguistic Bibliography and Linguistic Bibliography Online, please visit brill.com/lbo and linguisticbibliography.com. The e-book version of this bibliography is available in Open Access.Table of ContentsIntroduction Structure of references Periodicals Abbreviationsli Become a contributor to the Linguistic Bibliographylii General works  3. Conferences, workshops, meetings  4. Festschriften and miscellanies  4.1. Festschriften General linguistics and related disciplines  0.2. History of linguistics, biographical data, organizations  0.2.1. Western traditions  0.2.1.6. Nineteenth century  0.2.1.7. Twentieth century  0.2.1.8. Twenty-first century  0.2.3. Biographical data  0.3. Linguistic theory and methodology  0.6. Applied linguistics  1. Phonetics and phonology  1.1. Phonetics  1.1.1. Articulatory phonetics  1.1.3. Auditory phonetics  1.2. Phonology  1.2.1. Suprasegmental phonology (prosody)  2. Grammar, morphosyntax  2.2. Syntax  3. Lexicon (lexicology and lexicography)  3.2. Lexicography  3.2.2. Plurilingual lexicography  3.5. Phraseology, paroemiology  4. Semantics and pragmatics  4.2. Pragmatics, discourse analysis and text grammar  9. Psycholinguistics, language acquisition and neurolinguistics  9.3. Language acquisition  9.3.1. First language acquisition, child language  9.3.1.1. First language acquisition by pre-school children  9.4. Neurolinguistics and language disorders  9.4.2. Language disorders  9.4.2.1. Disorders of language development  10. Sociolinguistics and dialectology  10.1. Sociolinguistics  10.1.1. Language attitudes and social identity  10.1.2. Language policy and language planning  10.2. Multilingualism, language contact  10.2.1. Multilingualism  10.2.3. Language contact  11. Comparative linguistics  11.1. Historical linguistics and language change  13. Onomastics  13.2. Toponymy  13.3. Name studies other than anthroponymy and toponymy Indo-European languages  3. Indo-Iranian  3.1. Indo-Aryan (Indic)  3.1.3. Modern Indo-Aryan  3.1.3.5. Southern Indo-Aryan (Marathi)  9. Greek  9.3. Modern Greek  11. Romance  11.3. Gallo-Romance  11.3.2. French  11.3.2.3. Modern French  14. Germanic  14.3. West Germanic  14.3.1. German  14.3.1.1. High German  14.3.1.1.4. New High German  14.3.2. Dutch  14.3.2.3. Modern Dutch  14.3.3. Afrikaans  14.3.5. English  14.3.5.4. Modern English Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia  1. Sino-Tibetan  1.2. Sinitic (Chinese)  1.2.2. Modern Chinese Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa  1. Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)  1.7. Benue-Congo  1.7.1. Bantu  3. Khoisan Pidgins and Creoles  1. Romance lexifier pidgins and creoles  2. English lexifier pidgins and creoles  3. Pidgins and creoles with lexifiers other than Romance and English Sign languages  2. Individual sign languages (except ASL) Index of names Index of languages Index of subjects

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Book SynopsisThe terminology in medieval Hebrew medical literature (original works and translations) has been sorely neglected by modern research. Medical terminology is virtually missing from the standard dictionaries of the Hebrew language, including Ha-Millon he-ḥadash, composed by Abraham Even-Shoshan. Ben-Yehuda’s dictionary is the only one that contains a significant number of medical terms. Unfortunately, Ben-Yehuda’s use of the medieval medical texts listed in the dictionary’s introduction is inconsistent at best. The only dictionary exclusively devoted to medical terms, both medieval and modern, is that by A.M. Masie, entitled Dictionary of Medicine and Allied Sciences. However, like the dictionary by Ben-Yehuda, it only makes occasional use of the sources registered in the introduction and only rarely differentiates between the various medieval translators. Further, since Masie’s work is alphabetized according to the Latin or English term, it cannot be consulted for Hebrew terms. The Historical Dictionary of the Hebrew Language, which is currently being created by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, has not been taken into account consistently as it is not a dictionary in the proper sense of the word. Moreover, consultation of this resource suggests that it is generally deficient in medieval medical terminology. The Bar Ilan Responsa Project has also been excluded as a source, despite the fact that it contains a larger number of medieval medical terms than the Historical Dictionary. The present dictionary has two major objectives: 1) to map the medical terminology featured in medieval Hebrew medical works, in order to facilitate study of medical terms, especially those terms that do not appear in the existing dictionaries, and terms that are inadequately represented. 2) to identify the medical terminology used by specific authors and translators, to enable the identification of anonymous medical material.

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Book SynopsisRobert L. Rankin was a seminal figure in late 20th and early 21st centuries in the field of Siouan linguistics. His knowledge, like the papers he produced, was voluminous. We have gathered here a representation of his work that spans over thirty years. The papers presented here focus on both the languages Rankin studied in depth (Quapaw, Kansa, Biloxi, Ofo, and Tutelo) and comparative historical work on the Siouan language family in general. While many of the papers included have been previously published, one third of them have never before been made public including a grammatical sketch and dictionary of Ofo and his final paper on the place of Mandan in the larger Siouan family.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive introduction to the Tangut language and culture. Five of the fiſteen chapters survey the history of Western Xia and the evolution of Tangut Studies, including new advancements in the field, such as research on the recently decoded Tangut cursive writings found in Khara-Khoto documents. The other ten chapters provide an introduction to the Tangut language: its origins, script, characters, grammars, translations, textual and contextual readings. In this synthesis of historical narratives and linguistic analysis, the renowned Tangutologist Shi Jinbo offers a guided access to the mysterious civilisation of the ‘Great State White and High’ to both a specialized and a general audience.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface List of Illustrations Introduction  1 The Purpose of Studying Tangut  2 Some Notes on Learning Tangut 1 History and Society of Western Xia  1 History of Western Xia  2 Tangut Society  3 Religions in Western Xia  4 Tangut Culture  Tangut Vocabulary (1) 2 Tangut Manuscripts  1 Discovery of the Corpus of Tangut Manuscripts  2 Types and Quantities of Tangut Texts  3 Introduction to Tangut Manuscripts  4 Compilation and Publication of Tangut Manuscripts  Tangut Vocabulary (2) 3 Tangut Bibliology and Bibliography  1 Types and Versions  2 Binding of Books  3 Structure and Design  4 Illustrations, Letter Code, and Attachments  5 Papers  Tangut Vocabulary (3) 4 Structure and Features of Tangut Characters  1 The Structure of Tangut Characters  2 Pictograms and Simple Ideograms (Simple Indicatives) Comparisons with Chinese Characters  3 Tangut Radicals  4 Write and Search Tangut Words in a Dictionary  Tangut Vocabulary (4) 5 Phonetics and Vocabulary  1 The Tangut Language  2 Tangut Phonetics  3 Tangut Words  Tangut Vocabulary (5) 6 Parts of Speech  1 Nouns  2 Pronouns  3 Numerals and Classifiers  4 Verbs  5 Adjectives  6 Adverbs  7 Particles  8 Prepositions  9 Conjunctions  10 Interjections, Mood Particles, and Onomatopoeia  Tangut Vocabulary (6) 7 Phrases and Word Order  1 Phrases  2 Syntax  Textual Interpretation (1) 8 Sentences  1 Judgments, Descriptions, Statements and Interrogations  2 Indicatives, Imperatives and Exclamations  3 Simple and Compound Sentences  4 Active and Passive  5 Autonomous and Causative  Textual Interpretation (2) 9 Cases and Case-Markers  1 Nominative  2 Genitive  3 Accusative  4 Presentative  5 Subject of the Performative  Textual Interpretation (3) 10 Existential Verbs  1 Categories and Usages  2 Definitions and Applications of Existential Verbs in the Sea of Characters  3 Features of Usage  Textual Interpretation (4) 11 Prepositional Particles  1 Types and Usage  2 Features  3 Tactics in Translating Tangut Texts  Textual Interpretation (5) 12 Rime Transformation and Person Agreement in Tangut Verbs  1 Categories of Person Agreements  2 Rime Transformation in Person Agreement  3 Explanations Found in the Sea of Characters and the Homophones  4 In Textual Translations  Textual Interpretation (6) 13 Proper Nouns and Kinship Terms  1 Names of States and Ethnicities  2 Imperial Titles and Era Names  3 Titles of Civil Servants  4 Family Names and Given Names  5 Addressing Families and Relatives  Textual Interpretation (7) 14 Interpretation of Tangut Social Documents and the Cursive Script  1 Tangut Social Documents  2 Tangut Cursive Script and Social Documents  Textual Interpretation (8) 15 Translation and Punctuation  1 Some Notes on Translation  2 How to Pause Properly When Reading a Tangut Text  Textual Interpretation (9) Afterword Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the history of reading technologies referred to as kundoku 訓讀 in Japanese, hundok in Korean and xundu in Mandarin. Rendered by the translators as ‘vernacular reading’, these technologies were used to read Literary Sinitic through and into a wide variety of vernacular languages across diverse premodern East Asian civilizations and literary cultures. The book’s editor, Ross King, prefaces the translation with an essay comparing East Asian traditions of ‘vernacular reading’ with typologically similar reading technologies in the Ancient Near East and calls for a shift in research focus from writing to reading, and from ‘heterography’ to ‘heterolexia’. Translators are Marjorie Burge, Mina Hattori, Ross King, Alexey Lushchenko, and Si Nae Park.Table of ContentsEditors’ Preface  Vernacular Reading in the Sinographic Cosmopolis and Beyond Author’s Preface to the English Edition Acknowledgements List of Figures Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction  1 Buying Tickets at the Station  2 A Ticket Gate  3 Sinographic Expressions in East Asia  4 “Vernacular Reading”: The Kundoku Phenomenon in the Sinographic Cultural Sphere 1 Reading Literary Sinitic—kundoku “Vernacular Reading” in Japan  1 What Is Kundoku?  2 Kundoku and Chinese Translations of Buddhist Sutras  3 The Ideological Context of kundoku  4 The Initial Stage of Kundoku: From the Early Nara to the Mid-Heian Periods  5 Kundoku in the Period of Maturity: From the Mid-Heian to Insei Periods (ca. 10th to 12th Centuries CE)  6 New Developments in Kundoku: From the Kamakura to Early Modern Periods  7 Kundoku since the Meiji Period 2 Vernacular Reading in East Asia  1 Hundok on the Korean Peninsula  2 Hundok in Silla and Kokunten in Japan  3 Ideological Background of hundok on the Korean Peninsula  4 Vernacular Reading Phenomena on the Periphery of China  5 Vernacular Reading Phenomena in China 3 Writing in Literary Sinitic: The Diverse World of Literary Sinitic in East Asia  1 The World of Poetry in East Asia  2 The Diversity of Literary Sinitic 4 Concluding Thoughts: The East Asian Literary Sinitic Cultural Sphere  1 A Diverse Range of Ways to Pronounce Sinographs  2 A Diverse Range of Ways to Read Literary Sinitic  3 A Diverse Range of Literary Sinitic Inscriptional Styles  4 Literary Sinitic Inscriptional Style and Social Class  5 East Asian Literary Sinitic Cultural Sphere 5 Epilogue Bibliography Index of Named Individuals Index of Texts Cited Index and Glossary of Terms

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Book SynopsisEvery third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2018, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Albacete (Spain) on the theme of “Humanity and Nature: Arts and Sciences in Neo-Latin Literature”. This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.Table of ContentsXVIIth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies Programme Presidential Address  Ingrid A. R. De Smet List of Illustrations Plenary Papers 1 Le De Alea (1561) de Pascasius, ou l’invention des addictions et de la thérapie analytique  Jean-François Cottier 2 Petrarca e la natura  Carla Maria Monti 3 “Conquering Greece”: On the Correct Way to Translate in Fifteenth-Century Humanist Translation Theory  Marianne Pade 4 Autor/Erzähler und Fiktion im neulateinischen Roman: Ein Beitrag zu einer historischen Narratologie  Stefan Tilg 5 Apuntes sobre la transmisión textual de la versión latina de la Política de Leonardo Bruni  Juan J. Valverde Abril Communications 6 La Compendiosa Historia Hispanica (1470) como fuente en el primer Renacimiento castellano  Guillermo Alvar Nuño 7 L’humaniste suisse Heinrich Glaréan (1488–1563), vir bonus dicendi et docendi peritus  David Amherdt 8 La relevancia de los paratextos de las primeras ediciones de Marciano Capela para la crítica textual  Manuel Ayuso 9 Fonctions et effets des titres-résumés dans les miscellanées philologiques de la Renaissance  Valéry Berlincourt 10 From puer to iuuenis: Peder Hegelund’s Self-Reflecting Portrayal of Danish Christian III in the Epicedion de Inclyto et Serenissimo Rege Christiano III  Anders Kirk Borggaard 11 Shaping a Poem: Some Remarks on Paul of Krosno and His Horatianism  Elwira Buszewicz 12 Le scritture esposte e il latino in Italia fra XIV e XV secolo  Nadia Cannata 13 Commenter Quinte-Curce au xvie siècle : Premières observations  Lucie Claire 14 Bernardo Michelozzi e Francesco Pucci, amici di penna  Claudia Corfiati 15 The Bird-Catcher’s Wiles: Pietro Angeli da Barga’s De Aucupio  Ingrid A. R. De Smet 16 La tradición latina renacentista del De simplicium medicamentorum facultatibus de Galeno  Marina Díaz Marcos 17 Aspects of Nature and People in Early Travel Literature (Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)  Roumpini Dimopoulou 18 Bonaventura Vulcanius in Spain: Some Poems  Ignacio J. García Pinilla 19 La versión latina del tratado aristotélico De sensu (Parva naturalia) de Sepúlveda  Paraskevi Gatsioufa 20 The Practicing Poet: Petrarch, Dedalus, and the Dynamics of Poetic Creativity in the Bucolicum carmen  Donald Gilman 21 The Epigrammata Antiquae Urbis (1521) and the Muses: a Little-Known Chapter in Sixteenth-Century Latin Poetry  Gerard González Germain 22 La figure du tyran dans les Adages d’Érasme  Lika Gordeziani 23 From Caesar to the Rantzaus: Allegory, Fiction and Reality in Heinrich Rantzau’s De obitu nobilissimae matronae Annae Rantzoviae Domini Ioannis Rantzovij coniugis Ecloga  Trine Arlund Hass 24 Epigramme et épopée : quelques exemples tirés de l’épigramme lyonnaise des années 1530–40  Sylvie Laigneau-Fontaine 25 Ovidio neo-latino tra Cinque e Seicento: un percorso italo-europeo  Marco Leone 26 Nunc erit beatior … L’homme et la nature dans la troisième épode de Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski  Maria Łukaszewicz-Chantry 27 L’art de conférer chez Érasme  Eric MacPhail 28 Mankind’s Public and Private Roles in Collectanea Moralis Philosophiae (1571)  Ana I. C. Martins 29 Prefazioni e dediche nelle edizioni degli storici greci tra politica e divulgazione  Maria Stefania Montecalvo 30 Dutch Late Humanism and Its Aftermath: the Reception of Hugo Grotius’ Biblical Scholarship  Henk Nellen 31 The Merging of Linguistic Idioms in the Commentary Genre: the Case of Alejo Vanegas of Toledo (1542)  Daniel Nodes 32 La quaestio An terra moveatur an quiescat di Giovanni Regiomontano  Pietro Daniel Omodeo e Alberto Bardi 33 Los cuatro epigramas latinos de Alonso García en alabanza del Libro de la melancholia (Sevilla, 1585) de su discípulo Andrés Velásquez  Joaquín Pascual-Barea 34 Amato Lusitano: El relato patográfico del morbo gálico  María Jesús Pérez Ibáñez 35 Nuevos retos para el estudio de la poesía jesuítica latina del siglo XVIII  Carlos Ángel Rizos Jiménez 36 Fonti scientifiche in contesti scolastici: La metafora medica nei commenti a Persio del Secondo Quattrocento  Federica Rossetti 37 Continuidad y variación en el tratamiento de la rabia: de Gratio (s. I) a Aurifaber (s. XVI)  María de Lourdes Santiago Martínez 38 Magnetism’s Transformation from Natural Phenomenon to Literary Metaphor  Raija Sarasti-Wilenius 39 Natural and Artificial Objects in Conrad Gessner’s Book on “Fossils”  Petra Schierl 40 Educazione e politica nelle lettere di Costanza da Varano  Margherita Sciancalepore 41 Städtelob und Zeitkritik: Die Frankfurt-Episode im Iter Argentoratense (1544) des Humanisten Georg Fabricius  Robert Seidel 42 Seven Types of Intertextuality, and the Emic/Etic Distinction  Minna Skafte Jensen 43 A Dowry Recovered after Three Decades: Diego Gracián’s Spanish Editions of Ioannes Dantiscus’ Hymns Revisited  Anna Skolimowska 44 Neo-Latin and Russian in Mikhail V. Lomonosov’s Panegyric for Elizaveta Petrovna (1749)  Anna Smirnova 45 De interpretibus Iacobi Vanierii e Societate Jesu sacerdotis inter poetas Hungaros  László Szörényi 46 The Weaver of Light: Divine Origin of Nature and Natural Science in Carlo Noceti’s Iris  Irina Tautschnig 47 Notas sobre la correspondencia manuscrita de Christoph Sand  Pablo Toribio 48 Cum Apolline Christus: Personal Mottos of Humanists from the Czech Lands  Marta Vaculínová 49 Lettere alla corte aragonese: L’epistolario di Antonio Galateo, i re di Napoli e l’Accademia  Sebastiano Valerio 50 The Latin and the Swedish Versions of J. Widekindi’s Historia Belli Sveco-Moscovitici Decennalis: the Nature of the Differences  Arsenii Vetushko-Kalevich 51 Il bestiario “non inutile e giocondo” dell’umanista Pier Candido Decembrio  Éva Vígh 52 Der Humanist in der Krise: Zur Rolle der Poesie im Leben des Rigaer Humanisten David Hilchen  Kristi Viiding 53 Nepenthes – Trank der Helena: Die umstrittene Identität eines ‚homerischen‘ pharmakon in gelehrten Debatten des 17. Jahrhunderts  Benjamin Wallura 54 Martinus Szent-Ivany’s Notion of scientia: Some Preliminary Notes on the Semantics of Neo-Latin Science  Svorad Zavarský Index

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Book SynopsisMany works on linguistic typology deal in some detail with one or more particular grammatical topics without clearly demonstrating how these relate to other categories or construction types. The Essence of Linguistic Analysis by R. M. W. Dixon presents a framework which connects individual topics in a cogent and coherent way, showing their dependencies and locating each in its place within the overall tapestry of a language. A clear distinction is made between semantic roles and syntactic functions. And it is held that the basic constituents of a language are lexical elements. Grammatical items serve to link together lexical units. At every level of analysis, the central units are lexical with grammar providing ancillary indicators.Trade Review"To sum up, as a condensational up-to-date volume, Essence is indeed a mandatory reading for scholars in the field of linguistic typology since it manages to unveil the nature of human language within the wider theoretical framework." ~ Yifan Liu and Sihong Zhang, Hefei University of Technology in Folia Linguistica, (2023, aop)Table of ContentsContents Preface VII Acknowledgements IX Abbreviations X Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Preliminaries  2 The Basic Scheme  3 Semantic Types and Semantic Roles  4 Peripheral Arguments  5 Clauses within Phrases and Clauses within Clauses  6 Free and Bound Pronouns  7 Head of a Verb Phrase  8 Copula Clauses and Verbless Clauses  9 Types of Intransitive Subject, S  10 The Sentence and Above  Commentary and Notes  Preliminary Note  Notes to Sections  References  Index  Books by R. M. W. Dixon

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Book SynopsisWas plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which traditional Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism. Comparative in approach, global in scope, and historical in orientation, it engages with the growing discussion of plurilingualism and focuses on fundamental scholarly practices in various premodern and early modern societies—Chinese, Indian, Mesopotamian, Jewish, Islamic, Ancient Greek, and Roman—asking how these were conceived by the agents themselves. The volume will be an indispensable resource for courses on these subjects and on the history of scholarship and reflection on language throughout the world.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer and Michele Loporcaro Part 1 Language Diversity 1.1 Introduction  Glenn W. Most 1.2 The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9)  Joel S. Baden 1.3 A 5th-Century BCE Greek Historian Discusses the Pelasgians and the Origins of the Greek Language Herodotus, Histories  Filippomaria Pontani 1.4 Language Arose from Spontaneous Feelings and Reactions to Nature The Doctrine of Epicurus (4th Century BCE) and Lucretius (1st Century BCE)  Filippomaria Pontani 1.5 Language Diversity Is a Result of Social Interaction Xunzi’s View on Plurilingualism in 3rd-Century BCE China  Dagmar Schäfer 1.6 Language Is a Collective Product of Mankind Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History (1st Century BCE)  Filippomaria Pontani 1.7 A 1st-Century BCE/CE Greek Geographer Discusses What a “Barbarian” Language Is in Terms of Homer and the Carians Strabo, Geography  Filippomaria Pontani 1.8 Plurilingualism in China and Inner Asia in the 12th Century CE “Khitan Reciting Poetry”  Mårten Söderblom Saarela Part 2 Etymology 2.1 Introduction  Glenn W. Most, Dagmar Schäfer and Michele Loporcaro 2.2 An Early Post-Vedic Treatise on the Etymological Explanation of Words Yāska, Etymology  Johannes Bronkhorst 2.3 A 4th-Century BCE Greek Philosophical Analysis of the Methods and Limits of Etymology Plato, Cratylus  Glenn W. Most 2.4 A 1st-Century BCE Roman Polymath’s Explanation of the Mysteries of Latin Varro, On the Latin Language  Glenn W. Most and Michele Loporcaro 2.5 A 1st-Century CE Stoic Etymological and Allegorical Explanation of Greek Gods Cornutus, Compendium of Greek Theology  Glenn W. Most 2.6 Zheng Xuan and Commentarial Etymology (2nd Century CE)  Dagmar Schäfer 2.7 Etymology in the Most Important Reference Encyclopedia of Late Antiquity (ca. 600 CE) Isidore of Seville, Etymologies  Michele Loporcaro and Glenn W. Most 2.8 Buddhist Etymologies from First-Millennium India and China Works by Vasubandhu, Sthiramati and Paramārtha  Roy Tzohar 2.9 An Influential Latin Dictionary and Its Etymologies (12th Century CE) in the Linguistic Landscape of Medieval Europe Hugutio of Pisa’s Derivationes  Michele Loporcaro Part 3 Lexicography 3.1 Introduction  Mårten Söderblom Saarela 3.2 Lexicality and Lexicons from Mesopotamia  Markham J. Geller 3.3 Translating Oriental Words into Greek A Papyrus Glossary from the 1st Century CE  Filippomaria Pontani 3.4 The Making of Monolingual Dictionaries The Prefaces to the Lexica of Hesychius (6th Century CE) and Photius (9th Century CE)  Filippomaria Pontani 3.5 A 10th-Century CE Byzantine Encyclopedia and Lexicon Suda, Letter Sigma  Glenn W. Most 3.6 A Dictionary of the Imperial Capital Shen Qiliang’s Da Qing quanshu (1683)  Mårten Söderblom Saarela Part 4 Translation 4.1 Introduction  Dagmar Schäfer and Markham J. Geller 4.2 Translators of Sumerian The Unsung Heroes of Babylonian Scholarship  Markham J. Geller 4.3 The Earliest and Most Complete Story of the Translation of the Pentateuch into Greek (2nd Century BCE) The Letter of Aristeas  Benjamin G. Wright III 4.4 “Faithful” and “Unfaithful” Translations The Greco-Latin Tradition in Jerome’s Letter to Pammachius (395/396 CE)  Filippomaria Pontani 4.5 A 4th-Century CE Buddhist Note on Sanskrit-Chinese Translation Dao’an’s Preface to the Abridgement of the Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra  Bill M. Mak 4.6 An 8th-Century CE Indian Astronomical Treatise in Chinese The Nine Seizers Canon by Qutan Xida  Bill M. Mak 4.7 Two 8th-Century CE Recensions of Amoghavajra’s Buddhist Astral Compendium, Treatise on Lunar Mansions and Planets  Bill M. Mak 4.8 Arabic and Arabo-Latin Translations of Euclid’s Elements  Sonja Brentjes Part 5 Writing Systems 5.1 Introduction  Dagmar Schäfer, Markham J. Geller and Glenn W. Most 5.2 A 4th-Century BCE Greek Philosophical Myth about the Egyptian Origins of Writing Plato, Phaedrus  Glenn W. Most 5.3 A Buddhist Mahāyāna Account of the Coming into Being of Language The Descent into Laṅkā Scripture (Laṅkāvatārasūtra)  Roy Tzohar 5.4 Stories of Origin Ibn al-Nadīm, Kitāb al-Fihrist  Sonja Brentjes 5.5 Inventing or Adapting Scripts in Inner Asia The Jin and Yuan Histories and the Early Manchu Veritable Records Juxtaposed (1340s–1630s)  Mårten Söderblom Saarela 5.6 An Essay on the Use of Chinese and Korean Language in Late 18th-Century CE Chosŏn Yu Tŭkkong, “Hyang’ŏ pan, Hwaŏ pan”  Mårten Söderblom Saarela Index

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Book SynopsisThis longitudinal study weaves the complex stories of many disparate musics into an account of quests for identities that illuminates Lombok’s history, its complex religious and ethnic composition, and its current political circumstances. It focuses on agents, musicians and leaders on the ground, and the socioreligious and artistic changes that transformed many music forms. The book outlines the years of political difficulty for music and years of transition and government interventions to remake musics, and identifies the emerging ideologies and developments that laid the groundwork for a diversity of musics – traditional, Islamic, popular – to simultaneously exist in an unprecedented way.Trade Review"It is not every day that a book on Lombok sees the light and certainly not a book that looks at its subject from so many different angles and over such a long period of time. [...] This book is a must for those who wish to understand Lombok but also to understand Indonesian national phenomena seen from the relatively micro-environment of Lombok." – Dick van der Meij, Digital Repository of Endangered and Affected Manuscripts in Southeast Asia (DREAMSEA), University of HamburgTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Orthography, Terms, and Names Introduction  Setting the Scene  1 Histories and Religions  2 Musics of Lombok  3 People and Places  4 Fieldwork Histories  5 Organizing Music and Identity 1 Change, Religion, and Identity in Music Cultures  1 Religion, Religious Identities, and Interreligious Relationships  2 Constructing and Dismantling Pluralism and Tolerance  3 Modernity and Change  4 Politicizing Identities and Musics  5 Changing Islams and a Sasak Movement  6 Music and Identity  7 Sonic Identities and Situating ‘Tradition’  8 Exploring Change on Lombok 2 ‘Traditional’ Musics  Functions, Contestations, Interpretations  1 Gamelan-type Ensembles  2 Gamelan Gong Sasak/Gong Kebyar  3 Vocal Music  4 Sacred Forms  5 Other Dance and Theatre  6 Summary 3 The Phenomenon of Gendang Beleq  1 From Ritual to Stage  2 Transitions  3 Analysis of Chapter 4 Wayang Sasak  Shadowplay, Practices, Elements, and Narratives  1 Symbolism, Characters, and Identity  2 Accompaniment  3 Government Interventions  4 Situating Puppeteers and Processes  5 The Situation Today and Tomorrow 5 Music, Islam, and Islamization  1 Islam on Lombok  2 Issues of Music and Islam  3 Musik Islam  4 Zikrsamman  5 Marawis  6 Tongkek  7 Realizations of Burdah, Hadrah, and Rebana Burdah  8 Synthesis 6 Popular Musics and ‘Musik Rakyat’  1 Weddings  2 Musik Rakyat: Gambus, Cilokaq, Kecimol Asli, and Amaq Sadar  3 Musik Rakyat on the Street: Gula Gending and Selober  4 Popular Musics: Cultural and Gender Identities, and Erni Ayuningsih  5 Global Styles and Novi Bhavan  6 Synthesis: Intersections and Divergences of Folk and Popular Musics 7 Minority Musics of Lombok  1 Overview of Other Musics of Minority Populations  2 Sasak Buddhists, Rituals, and Musics  3 Lombok Balinese Music Culture  4 Summary of Chapter 8 Nexus of Sasak/Balinese Interaction  The Lingsar Festival  1 Reflective Takes on the Site, the Festival, and the Participants  2 Agamaization  3 Bridges to the Ancestors  4 Politicizing Lingsar: Contestation, Narratives, and the State  5 Tolerance of Ambiguity  6 A Long View 9 Performing Arts Education and Issues of Sustainability  1 Between Apathy and Sustainability  2 Indonesian Nation-building  3 Mochammad Yamin and lpsn  4 The Bidang Kesenian  5 Arts Education in the 21st Century  6 Contextualizing Benefits of Music Sustainability  7 Concluding Thoughts 10 Conclusion  Making Sense of All of This  1 Musics as Representation  2 Histories of Change  3 Ambivalence, Sociopolitical Identities, and the Arts  4 Final Thoughts on Musics and Identities Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered what is really happening to minority languages of Northeast Asia and which efforts are being taken both by “westerners” and local people to preserve and promote them? Would you like to discover, uncover, and tackle deep linguistic questions of such small but highly important languages such as Khamnigan Mongol, Wutun, Sartul-Buryat, Tofan and Sakhalin Ainu, just to mention a few? Would you like to know how simple smart phone apps can help communities to preserve, love and use their native language? This book, containing a rich selection of contributions on various aspects of language endangerment, emic and etic approaches at language preservation, and contact-linguistics, is an important contribution to the Unesco's Indigenous Languages Decade, which has right now started (2022-2032).

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Book SynopsisThe first book in English on Chinese-language media in Australia, Digital Transnationalism explores the challenges, opportunities and development of this sector against the backdrop of China’s rise, its soft power agenda, and renewed hostility between China and the global West. Situated in the Australian context, this study nevertheless is essential to understand the complex and evolving nature of Chinese-language digital media, and the role they play in fostering digital transnationalism among first-generation Chinese migrants across the globe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction:A New Direction in Global Chinese Studies?  1 Between Diaspora Identity and Citizenship: Social Capital in Transnational Space  2 Place-Making, Flexible Citizens, and the Reality of Living “In Between”  3 Soft Power and Diaspora Diplomacy  4 Digital Diaspora and Transnational Place-Making  5 Australia: A Country-Specific Approach  6 Chinese-Language Media as an Instrument of Chinese Influence?  7 Methods and Approach  8 Chapters 1 Media, Migration, and the New Chinese Diaspora:History, Politics, and Context  1 History of Earlier Chinese Migration  2 New Migrants from the PRC  3 “New New” Migrants from the PRC  4 Changing Demographic Patterns and Characteristics  5 Changing Political Climate  6 Chinese-Language Media in Australia 2 WeChat Subscription Accounts:Regulation, Business Model, and Institutional Context  1 WeChat and WeChat Subscription Accounts  2 The Political and Economic Context  3 Typology of WSA s and Their Regulatory Framework  4 Top Fifty WSA s in Australia:A Collective Portrait  5 Beyond a Simplistic Notion of Control:Conclusion 3 Production and Consumption of News on WeChat:Platform, Market, and Readers  1 Methods  2 Top Ten WSA s:Typology of Content and Style  3 Case Studies:Hong Kong Protests and Horton Versus Sun  4 Cultural Production of News on WeChat  5 Conclusion 4 Content Flow, Cultural Brokering, and the Identity of In-betweenness:The Case ofSydney Today  1 Content:Where, What, and Which Sources?  2 Ethno-Transnational Media between Host Country and Motherland: The Politics of Content Flow  3 The Chinese-Language Media In Between  4 Narrative Analysis of Sydney Today Stories  5 Editors as Content Brokers  6 Cultural Brokering and a New “In-Between” Identity Politics:A Conclusion 5 Self-Making through Self-Media:New Opinion Brokers in Transnational Space  1 Key Issues Pertaining to Self-Media  2 Cultural Economy of the Chinese Self-Media Industry  3 Chinese Content Entrepreneurs in Australia:Case Studies  4 Discussion: Self-Media Operators as Information and Opinion Brokers  5 Conclusion 6 Mobility and Micro-Entrepreneurship:Daigou as Transnational Subjects  1 Researching Daigou: A Note on Methods  2 Daigou in Australian Metropolitan Centers  3 Chinese Social Commerce Platforms and the Network of Networks  4 Chinese Micro-Entrepreneurial Mobility  5 Conclusion 7 Becoming Active Citizens:The Australian Federal Election and Civic Education  1 Approaching WeChat as a New Civic Space  2 Negotiating Boundaries and Performing Digital Acts  3 Exemplary Citizens  4 Discussion and Conclusion 8 Negotiating Flexibility:COVID-19 and the New Politics of Transnationalism  1 Transnational Migrants and Citizenship Engagement  2 COVID-19: From China to Australia:Timeline and Context  3 Active Citizens or Still Too Chinese?  4 Learning about Rights and Duties as Citizens  5 Selfish Flexible Citizenship?  6 Altruistic Flexible Citizenship?  7 Between a Rock and a Hard Place  8 Conclusion Conclusion:Toward a New Transnational Subject References Index

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