Arash Zeini

Tag: Linguistics

  • آیا ایرانیان آریایی هستند؟ بخش یک

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    شخصی در توییتر پیشنهاد کرده بود که چیزی در مورد رابطه بین زبانهای هند و اروپایی و تئوری‌های نژادی و نژادپرستانه بنویسم. من هم گفتم، به روی چشم و بعد پشیمون شدم. چرا؟ چون موضوع از حد یک نوشته کوچک بزرگتر است و در موردش زیاد کتاب و مقاله نوشته شده. با این حال فکر…

  • History of Humanities

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    Last week, I taught about Anquetil-Duperron, William Jones, the discovery of language similarity and the beginnings of IE Studies. Disciplines such as Iranian Studies or #Indology, as we know them today, would not have been possible without those efforts and contributions. I also made it a point to at least briefly discuss “genesis amnesia” and…

  • The family tree of Iranian

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    Dr Agnes Korn (University of Frankfurt) will be addressing the Indo-European Seminar on the subject The family tree of Iranian and its problems   At 4.30 pm on Wed. June 17, Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site Cambridge (CB3 9DA) Tea will be served from 4.15

  • Persian language, literature and culture

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    Talattof, Kamran. 2015. Persian language, literature and culture: New leaves, fresh looks. Routledge. Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian language, literature, and culture,…

  • Persian in Yuan China

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    Haw, Stephen. 2014. The Persian language in Yuan-Dynasty China: A reappraisal. East Asian History 39. 5–32. It has often been claimed that Persian was an important lingua franca in the Yuan empire. A recent article by Professor David Morgan has discussed this premise at some length, setting out what seems to be impressive evidence in…

  • A cultural history of Aramaic

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    Gzella, Holger. 2015. A cultural history of Aramaic: From the beginnings to the advent of Islam. Leiden/Boston: Brill. Aramaic is a constant thread running through the various civilizations of the Near East, ancient and modern, from 1000 BCE to the present, and has been the language of small principalities, world empires, and a fair share…

  • Persian grammar guide

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    The San Diego State University (SDSU) has created an on-line grammar guide for Persian. ‘You can click through the Alphabet to learn the names and sounds of each letter in the Persian alphabet, then try your hand at spelling some of the basic words introduced throughout the project’. The guide is available here.

  • On the linguistic history of Kurdish

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    Jügel, Thomas. 2014. On the linguistic history of Kurdish. Kurdish Studies 2(2). 123–142. Historical linguistic sources of Kurdish date back just a few hundred years, thus it is not possible to track the profound grammatical changes of Western Iranian languages in Kurdish. Through a comparison with attested languages of the Middle Iranian period, this paper…

  • Introduction to Avestan

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    This introduction was first published in 2001 in Spanish. It is now being made available in English translation. Martínez, Javier & Michiel de Vaan. 2014. Introduction to Avestan (Brill Introductions to Indo-European Languages I). Leiden/Boston: Brill. Translated from Spanish by Ryan Sandell. See here for more.

  • Sixth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics

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    Abstracts are invited for the Sixth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL6), to be held in Tbilisi / Georgia in June 2015. We expressly solicit contributions from the full range of Iranian linguistics, including formal theoretical perspectives, computational linguistics, neurolinguistics, typological and functional perspectives, as well as diachronic and areal perspectives.

  • Conference of Iranian languages and dialects

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    Call for Papers The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia has the honour of organising the 2nd International Conference of Iranian Languages and Dialects 4–5 January, 2015 Tehran, Iran Aims of the conference To spread and to consolidate the theoretical discussions on Iranian Languages and dialects To contribute to scholarly studies of Iranian Languages and…