Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? provides an in-depth examination of public discussions on lexical borrowing in the Japanese language. The main objective of this book is to explore the relationship between … Weiterlesen
Philology and the appropriation of the world: Champollion’s hieroglyphs This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-François Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible. Champollion’s success … Weiterlesen
The syntax of V‑V resultatives in Mandarin Chinese This book addresses the three fundamental properties of V‑V resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese: their generation, their syntactic structure, and their alternations. This book is original and new in the following aspects. … Weiterlesen
Brush conversation in the sinographic cosmopolis: interactional cross-border communication using literary Sinitic in early modern East Asia For hundreds of years until the 1900s, in today’s China, Japan, North and South Korea, and Vietnam, literati of Classical Chinese or Literary … Weiterlesen
The image of Du Fu in the West and China This book explores the three most famous biographies of Du Fu in contemporary China (Biography of Du Fu by Feng Zhi, Comment Biography of Du Fu by Chen Yixin, and … Weiterlesen
„Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss two of China’s greatest poets, Li Bai and Du Fu, who wrote in the 8th century in the Tang Era. Li Bai (701–762 AD) is known for personal poems, many of them about drinking wine, … Weiterlesen
China Schreibt Anders In einer Zeit, da China immer wichtiger wird, wird es auch immer wichtiger, China zu verstehen. Viel ist da noch zu tun. Die chinesische Schrift ist das komplizierteste System von Formen, welches die Menschheit geschaffen hat, und … Weiterlesen
Arabic dislocation Since the early years of generative grammar (Chomsky 1977, inter alia), the phenomenology of dislocation has proved to be a fertile area of research. This, however, has not been the case for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and hence … Weiterlesen
The Semitic languages The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters … Weiterlesen
Silk Road Linguistics: The birth of Yiddish and the multiethnic Jewish peoples on the Silk Roads, 9–13th centuries. The indispensable role of the Arabs, Chinese, Germans, Iranians, Slavs and Turks In this comprehensive study Paul Wexler demonstrates that Yiddish is … Weiterlesen
Blending, from English to Arabic This book examines the interesting linguistic phenomenon of blending, where new words are formed to enrich the lexicon of a language. Blending in English has been thoroughly investigated to the extent that researchers and scholars … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture Peter Konerding / Felix Wiedemann / Lale Behzadi | https://doi.org/10.20378/irb-49890 Over recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian … Weiterlesen
Chinese literature and culture in the age of global capitalism: renaissance or rehabilitation? Combining anatomies of textual examples with broader contextual considerations related with the social, political and economic developments of post-Mao China, Xiaoping Wang intends to explore newly emerging … Weiterlesen
The rise of the Arabic book The little-known story of the sophisticated and vibrant Arabic book culture that flourished during the Middle Ages. During the thirteenth century, Europe’s largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world … Weiterlesen
In der letzten Zeit sind u.a. diese frei verfügbaren Titel erschienen: A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic Esther-Miriam Wagner (ed.) | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0208 Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic … Weiterlesen