Brill, 2003. — xviii, 290 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements 243). This book examines the meaning of justice or dike in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The first two chapters argue that neither standard historical nor literary treatments have provided an adequate foundation for understanding Solon’s dike. The main defect lies in an inability to...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 357 p. — (Cuneiform Texts from the Iraqi Excavations at Umma (Jokha) 3). The administration of Umma was housed in a building adjoining the temple of the city god Shara. There, on the main tell, the Iraqi excavators, directed by the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, found a collection of clay bullae dating from the time of Sumuel of Larsa....
Rutgers University, 2020. — 307 p. Natural language uses first and second person pronouns to refer to the speaker and addressee. This dissertation takes as its starting point the view that speaker and addressee are also implicated in sentences that do not have such pronouns (Speas and Tenny 2003). It investigates two linguistic phenomena: honorification and indexical shift, and...
Springer, 2024. — 541 p. This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from the perspective of the different regions of the subcontinent using various sources. The book chapters discuss how early urban forms evolved, transformed, and survived on the subcontinent, beginning with the third millennium BCE. This...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019. — 355 p. — (Languages of Asia 18). In “A Russian-Yakut-Ewenki Trilingual Dictionary” by N.V. Sljunin, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente offers the philological edition of a very early twentieth-century source of two indigenous languages from Siberia. This edition includes the facsimile of the original handwritten document. Whereas specialists have...
Actes du colloque international de Lyon, 17-19 septembre 2015, Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3. — Genève: Droz, 2017. — 788 p. A l'ouvrage fondamental de F Bechtel, Die historischen Personennamen des griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit (1917), consacré aux radicaux des noms de personnes grecs antiques, les vingt-trois articles ici réunis procurent le complément nécessaire de l'étude...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019. — 196 p. This thesis investigates the syntax of various verbs in Kuwaiti Arabic which realise functional heads encoding Tense, Aspect and Modality, in addition to being used as lexical verbs. It investigates some fundamental issues such as the markedness of the perfective and imperfective verbal forms with respect to Tense and Aspect,...
Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie. — 2018. — Vol. 108. Issue 2. — p. 235-239. In 2016, a cylinder seal with Anatolian hieroglyphs was found in the archaeological excavations at Elbistan- Karahöyük in the province of Kahramanmaras. The cylinder seal was made of black stone and its inscription mentions three personal names. The hieroglyphic signs...
Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011. — 292 p. — (Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker Volume 4). Die attizistischen Glossen im Lexikon des „Zonaras" sind für uns die wertvollsten Bestandteile dieser großen Kompilation, die jedoch auch als Dokument byzantinischer Philologie von beträchtlicher Wirkung einmal gewürdigt zu werden verdiente. So erfüllt eine Sammlung,...
De Gruyter, 1995. —360 p. — (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte 45). In der 1968 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Monographien aus den Gebieten der Griechischen und Lateinischen Philologie sowie der Alten Geschichte. Die Bände weisen eine große Vielzahl von Themen auf: neben sprachlichen, textkritischen oder gattungsgeschichtlichen philologischen Untersuchungen...
De Gruyter, 1991. — 808 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 6). Yir-Yoront/English dictionary, with English index; notes on phonology and orthography, grammatical categories, semantics and taxonomy, kin terms, respect vocabulary, lists of plants, birds with Latin and Yir-Yoront terms.
University of Essex, 2015. — 250 p. This is a sociolinguistic investigation that examines variation in the use of two ancient features in the Tihāmi Qaḥṭāni dialect as spoken in two villages (al-Jawwa in the highlands and al-Farša in the lowlands) in ʿAsīr, southwest Saudi Arabia. The data are analysed within the framework of the variationist sociolinguistic paradigm and...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. — 319 p. This study is an investigation of syllable structure and related processes in one variety of Saudi Arabic. This is the variety spoken by inhabitants of Riyadh and villages near this city in Najd province, henceforth referred to as Najdi Arabic (NA). Although this dialect has been analysed by scholars including Johnstone (1963,...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019. — 209 p. This thesis investigates the syntax of possession and agreement in Najdi Arabic (NA, henceforth) with a particular focus on the possession expressed at the level of the DP (Determiner Phrase). Using the main assumptions of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995, and subsequent work) and adopting Abney’s (1987) DP-hypothesis, this...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022. — 270 p. — (Historische Forschungen 31). Als die Normannen ab der Mitte des 11. Jahrhunderts große Teile des ehemals byzantinisch geprägten Süditaliens eroberten, entstand ein Herrschaftsbereich, der sich verstärkt nach Westen orientierte. Dies hatte auch kirchliche Veränderungen zur Folge, die eine strukturelle und hierarchische Neuordnung der...
University of Essex, 2019. — 292 p. This study describes a wide range of syntactic aspects of negation in Turaif Arabic (TA), a spoken variety of Saudi Arabia, with some comparison with other varieties, and develops an approach to the syntactic analysis of core aspects of negation in TA within the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). The main focus of this study is on...
Arizona State University, 2015. — 83 p. Arabic is widely known for the lack of copulas in nominal sentences in the present tense. Arabic employs a copula ‘kana’ in the past and future tenses. However, in some constructions the presence of a third person pronoun is necessary for the purpose of emphasis or ambiguity reduction. The data investigated in this thesis was from...
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, 2012. — 55 p. The investigation of the structure of Arabic, a Semitic language spoken in many Arab countries, has revealed many typologically important linguistic phenomena, particularly related to syntax. The importance is seen in both its standard and dialectal forms. One of the important syntactic aspects of Arabic is negation, a...
Brill, 2018. — 527 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 142). The manuscript of the Aqwāl Qatāda has repeatedly attracted particular interest among modern scholars, as it raises questions concerning the early development of the Ibāḍī Basran community and the emergence of Islamic jurisprudence in Iraq. It is a unique document because it attests to the existence of a scholarly...
Brill, 2022. — xii, 370 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 187). This volume contains twenty-three texts, most of which were written between the end of the 2nd/8th century and the end of the 3rd/9th century. The majority of them reflect the early stages of the development of the First Ibadi Imamate in 132/750 – established when the Omanis fully seceded from the central...
University of Sheffield, 2015. — 466 p. Arabic is spoken by more than 280 million people around the world and has been subject to attention in a number of acoustic phonetic studies. However, there are a limited number of studies on Gulf Arabic dialects and the majority of these studies have focused mainly on male speakers. Therefore, this study aimed to explore two Gulf Arabic...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2017. — 191 p. This thesis investigates a set of clause-initial discourse particles in North Hail Arabic (NHA), a dialect spoken in Saudi Arabia. The particles are shown to be heads in the C-domain with topic-marking function. It is shown that the topics typology put forward by Frascarelli and Hinterhölzl (2007) for German and Italian extends...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2018. — 159 p. This thesis investigates the syntax of temporal and conditional adverbial clauses in Najdi Arabic (NA, henceforth). It essentially brings several pieces of empirical evidence that such clauses maintain the peripheral vs. central dichotomy which has been attested in some other (un)related languages (see, mainly, Haegeman 2003,...
California State University System, 2018. — 47 p. The movement of wh-subject questions is a controversial matter since there is no overt displacement or auxiliary inversion. In this thesis, I explore two approaches that dealt with this phenomenon the first approach is the Vacuous Movement Hypotheses (VMH) suggested by George (1980) and embraced by Chomsky (1986); the second...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2019. — 209 p. This thesis investigates the syntax of Conjoined Question Phrase Construction (such as when and where do you...?) in Najdi Arabic (NA). NA allows such questions under certain constraints, which are sensitive to the categorial status of the fronted conjoined wh-phrases, i.e. argumental wh-phrases vs. adjunct wh-phrases. With the...
University of Leeds, 2018. — 215 p. This study investigates how to classify Arabic dialects in text by extracting features which show the differences between dialects. There has been a lack of research about classification of Arabic dialect texts, in comparison to English and some other languages, due to the lack of Arabic dialect text corpora in comparison with what is...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. — X, 353 p. — (Culture and history of the ancient Near East; 109). In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical study of the Babylonian Exile, commonly regarded as a pivotal...
Routledge, 2025. — 185 p. — (Routledge Medieval Translations). The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fatḥ al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fatḥ al-Andalus (“The Conquest of al-Andalus”), which covers the history of Muslim Spain from the time of the initial conquest in 711 CE until the rise of the...
Brill, 2019. — xxx, 624 p. — (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition 21). In Plato's Timaeus and the Missing Fourth Guest, Donna M. Altimari Adler proposes a new Timaeus scale structure. She finds the harmonic cosmos, mathematically, at 35 A-36 D, regarding the text as a number generator. Plato's primary number sequence, she argues, yields a matrix...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 510 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 230). Am 20. November 284 wurde Diokletian vor den Toren der Stadt Nicomedia zum Kaiser ausgerufen. Dieses Ereignis gilt als die große Zäsur in der Geschichte der römischen Kaiserzeit und als Beginn der Spätantike, da die diokletianischen Reformen das römische Reich grundlegend veränderten. Die nur kurze Zeit...
Nordhausen: Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2014. — 260 p. Der junge Kaiser Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (218–222), besser bekannt unter dem Namen Elagabal, war eine der schillerndsten Gestalten auf dem Thron der römischen Cäsaren. Die literarischen Quellen schildern die Regierung dieses Teenagerkaisers, der im Alter von 14 Jahren in Syrien zum Herrscher ausgerufen wurde, äußerst...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. — 622 p. — (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Universität Greifswald 10.1). Das Editionsprojekt bietet eine umfassende Sammlung der Quellen zur Verfassungsgeschichte der Universität Greifswald aus deutschen, polnischen, schwedischen und dänischen Archiven. Die Dokumente werden hier erstmals auf gesicherter Textgrundlage für die Forschung zugänglich gemacht...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 377 p. — (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 84). This book deals with the intersection between religion, philosophy, and politics in the Graeco-Roman world, and especially in Late Antiquity, with special reference to the figure alluded to in ancient sources with the expression "theios aner". Charisma and leadership are basic elements of...
Routledge, 2020. — 237 p. — (Routledge Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics). Spanish in the United States: Attitudes and Variation is a collection of new, cutting-edge research with the purpose of providing scholars interested in Spanish as it is spoken by bilinguals living in the United States a current view of the state of the discipline. This volume is broad and...
University of California, Berkeley, 2017. — 161 p. This dissertation investigates the prosodic aspects of code-switching in Spanish-Basque bilinguals, which is not currently represented in the bilingualism literature. Bilinguals from the Basque Country in Spain (aged 21-31) from a Basque-dominant region (Lekeitio, n = 3) and a Spanish-dominant region (Bilbao, n = 4)...
University of Essex, 2019. — 277 p. This thesis concerns the description and analysis of floating and non-floating quantifiers in Hijazi Arabic (HA) within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). This work is a contribution to the long-standing debate on the relation between floating and non-floating quantifiers. It investigates the properties of Hijazi...
Brill, 2016. — x, 226 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 128). In Urban Autonomy in Medieval Islam Fukuzo Amabe offers the first in-depth study on autonomous cities in medieval Islam stretching from Aleppo and Damascus to Cordoba, Toledo and Valencia through Tunis during the late tenth to early twelfth centuries. Each city is treated separately to cull facts to prove its...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1987. — 191 p. — (Monografie di Archeologia Libica 22). Abbreviazioni - Introduzione - Scavo e restauro 1. Parte I. Dove e come sorse l'edificio. Periferia dell'antica città e sua necropoli. Valori topografici e religiosi. Dati preliminari sull'edificio. La fondazione del teatro nell'1-2 d.CR. Descrizione dei fornici in facciata. Interno dei fornici. I...
M.A. Linguistique, Institut de Linguistique Apliquée, Université de Bangui, 2011. — xii, 298 p. Phonology and nominal morphology of the dakpa language spoken in Bakala in the Central African Republic is the aim of this study. Counting out the number of observable facts show us that there are nine vowels and thirty two consonants. The tone system has two types of stops (high,...
University of Ottawa, 2019. — 129 p. It is generally acknowledged among scholars in the field of Late Antiquity that relations between the Roman and Iranian Empires reached its climax in the early fifth century. Countless sources report a variety of co-operative events depicting positive dealings between the Iranian shah Yazdgird and the Roman emperors Arcadius and Theodosius...
Lyon 2, 2014. — 436 p. This thesis presents a morphosyntactic description of the Alpine Occitan language spoken in Usseaux, a small village located in Val Chisone (Italy, Province of Torino). The language is described following a synchronic perspective, but is also partly based on diachronic studies of neighbouring villages and valleys, and mainly on a corpus analysis. The...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 244 p. Thirteenth-century England was a special place and time to be a bishop. Like their predecessors, these bishops were key members of the regnal community: anointers of kings, tenants-in-chief, pastors, counsellors, scholars, diplomats, the brothers and friends of kings and barons, and the protectors of the weak. But now circumstance and...
Introduction, texte critique, traduction, notes et index par Gérard Nauroy. — Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2010. — 645 p. — (Sources Chrétiennes 534). Le traité Jacob et la Vie heureuse, publié à la fin du IVe siècle, rassemble plusieurs prédications d'Ambroise, récrites pour former un tout. Il y adapte aussi bien le IVe Livre des Maccabées, qui transforme les héros juifs en...
Willis James (ed.). — De Gruyter, 1994. — 478 p. — (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Saturnalia (Latin: Saturnaliorum Libri Septem, "Seven Books of the Saturnalia") is a work written after c. 431 CE by the Roman provincial Macrobius Theodosius. The Saturnalia consists of an account of the discussions held at the house of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus...
Willis James (ed.). — De Gruyter, 1994. — 257 p. — (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana 1526). Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio (Latin: Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis) is a philosophical treatise of Macrobius based on the famous dream narrated in On the republic of Cicero (Chapter VI, 9-29). In Cicero's work, Scipio Africanus appears to his...
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2020. — 339 p. This study investigates change in the Nizwa dialect due to inter-dialectal contact caused by population movements towards Muscat. Particularly, it examines the use of five linguistic features of Nizwa Arabic belonging to different levels of the grammar. The phonological variables include the labialization of the high vowel /i/...
University of St Andrews, 2009. — 211 p. If the issue of prisoners of war has given rise to numerous studies in recent years, nevertheless, this topic is far from exhausted. Built on a large corpus of archival sources, this study fuels the debate on ransoms and prisoners with new material. Its originality lies in its broad chronological framework, i.e. the duration of the...
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. — XVIII, 650 p. — (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism (TSAJ) 99). Walter Ameling collects all known Jewish inscriptions from the Graeco-Roman period (up to c.700 CE) in Asia Minor. The book provides the mainly Greek texts of the inscriptions with German translations together with full bibliographies, discussions and indexes.
De Gruyter, 2022. — 612 p. — (Sozomena 17). Despite the significance of its contents, the so-called Demades papyrus (P.Berol. inv. 13045) has received scarce scholarly attention since the 1923 editio princeps by Karl Kunst. This unique late second-century BCE document of almost 430 lines was found in the Egyptian chora, but it is supposed to have been written in Alexandria,...
Leiden University, 2024. — 413 p. This study explores Adzagbe, a youth language based on Ewe, spoken in Aflao, Ghana. It aims to uncover how this code is created and the reasons behind its development among Aflao's youth. Data was collected through recorded conversations, interviews, and observations across four key zones of Adzagbe speakers: Zorokpome, Dekeme, Atisukorpe, and...