Towards Proto-Persian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Towards Proto-Persian write by Daniel A. Rees. This book was released on 2008. Towards Proto-Persian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The intent of the present course of inquiry is to examine historical Persian phonology in light of advances in Optimality Theory (OT) as applied to language change and variation, and in doing so to present a historical reconstruction of Proto-Modern-Persian (henceforth Proto-Persian). The phonemic inventories and synchronic phonological processes observed in the modern dialects of Persian bear witness to a number of changes accounted for within the framework of OT. Taking into account previous literature on pre-Modern Persian diachronic change, colloquial speech from various speakers of the three principal Modern Persian dialects of Iranian, Dari and Tajik, is analyzed and a comparative reconstruction is generated, positing proto-forms as predecessors to attested phonemes based on patterns of predictability in the data. OT unifies the phonological account of both variation and change by tying all processes to the physiological notions of ease of articulation and parsing, bolstering the claim that sound change at the lexical level is based on gesture economy at the articulatory level. As a direct result of this reconstruction, it is quantifiably demonstrated that the Afghan dialect of Persian, Dari, is not only the most conservative of the three major dialects, but it is merely a slightly modified version of what will be labeled Proto-Persian.
Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics
Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics write by Jared Klein. This book was released on 2018-06-11. Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
Toward Proto-Nostratic
Toward Proto-Nostratic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward Proto-Nostratic write by Allan R. Bomhard. This book was released on 1984. Toward Proto-Nostratic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book represents the culmination of the author's work to date it incorporates and updates previous articles and adds much new material. This book is not nor was it ever intended to be a comparative grammar of either the Indo-European or the Afroasiatic language families. It is, rather, a comparison of Proto-Indo-European with Proto-Afroasiatic. While this is not the first attempt to demonstrate that Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic are genetically related, it is the first to use the radical revision of the Proto-Indo-European consonantal system proposed by Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Paul J. Hopper, and Vjaceslav V. Ivanov. Moreover, unlike previous endeavors, this is the first to make extensive use of data from the non-Semitic branches of Afroasiatic. The assumptions underlying this investigation of the possibility of the common genetic origin of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic differ considerably from the assumptions made in other works on "Nostratic"; the methodological approach followed in this monograph has been one of rigorous adherence to the time-honored principles of comparative reconstruction.
A History of the Tajiks
A History of the Tajiks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Tajiks write by Richard Foltz. This book was released on 2019-06-27. A History of the Tajiks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. In eight chapters, the author explores the revitalisation of Persian culture under the Samanid Empire in the Tajik heartlands of historical Khorasan and Transoxiana; analyses the evolution of the politics of Tajik identity; and traces the history of the ethnic Tajik diaspora today.
The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics
The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics write by Anousha Sedighi. This book was released on 2018-08-02. The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research. Leading scholars in the major subfields of Persian linguistics examine a range of topics split into six thematic parts. Following a detailed introduction from the editors, the volume begins by placing Persian in its historical and typological context in Part I. Chapters in Part II examine topics relating to phonetics and phonology, while Part III looks at approaches to and features of Persian syntax. The fourth part of the volume explores morphology and lexicography, as well as the work of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. Part V, language and people, covers topics such as language contact and teaching Persian as a foreign language, while the final part examines psycho- neuro-, and computational linguistics. The volume will be an essential resource for all scholars with an interest in Persian language and linguistics.
