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Genre/Form: | Conference papers and proceedings Congresses |
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Material Type: | Conference publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jens Braarvig; Markham J Geller |
ISBN: | 9783945561133 3945561132 |
OCLC Number: | 1084501576 |
Language Note: | In English; includes one contribution in German. |
Notes: | Proceedings of several workshops and conferences. |
Description: | viii, 535 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Empires and their languages : reflections on the history and the linguistics of lingua franca and lingua sacra / Reinier Salverda -- Dependent languages / Jens Braarvig -- Lehnübersetzung und Lehnbedeutung vs. Lehnwort : zu den Entlehnungen aus dem Lateinischen und Französischen in das mittelalterliche Deutsch / Kurt Gärtner -- Konrad of Megenberg : German terminologies and expressions as created on Latin models / Kathrin Chlench-Priber -- What language does God speak? / Florentina Badalanova Geller -- Islamic mystical poetry and Alevi rhapsodes from the village of Sevar, Bulgaria / Florentina Badalanova Geller -- Learning Arabic and learned bilingualism in early modern England : the case of John Pell / Daniel Andersson -- Sumerian in the Middle Assyrian period / Klaus Wagensomer -- The concept of the Semitic root in Akkadian lexicography / Markham J. Geller -- Multilingualism in the Elamite kingdoms and the Achaemenid Empire / Jan Tavernier -- Diplomatic multilingualism in the Middle East, past and present : multilingualism, linguae francae and the global history of religious and scientific concepts / Lutz Edzard -- Some observations on multilingualism in Graeco-Roman Egypt / Alexandra von Lieven -- Indo-Iranian sacred texts and sacrificial practices : structures of common heritage (speech and performance in the Veda and Avesta, III) / Velizar Sadovski -- Aspects of multilingualism in Turfan as seen in Manichaean texts / Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst -- Multilingualism and lingua franca in the ancient Chinese world / William G. Boltz -- The imprint of Buddhist Sanskrit on Chinese and Tibetan : some lexical ontologies and translation strategies in the Tang dynasty / Jens Braarvig -- Classical Chinese as lingua franca in East Asia in the first to second millennia CE : focusing on the linguistic situation in traditional Korea / Vladimir Tikhonov -- Multilingualism and lingua francae of indigenous civilizations of America / Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo. |
Series Title: | Max Planck research library for the history and development of knowledge., Studies ;, 10.; Edition Open Access. |
Other Titles: | Studies in multilingualism, lingua franca and lingua sacra |
Responsibility: | Jens Braarvig, Markham J. Geller (eds.). |
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