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Review of C. A. Ciancaglini. Iranian Loanwords in Syriac. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008 (Beiträge zur Iranistik. Bd. 28). XLVII + 315 pp.
P. 575–586.
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Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2012.
Падалка П. В., Ryzhova D., Чистякова Д. Г., Вопросы языкознания 2026 № 1 С. 40–58
The article is dedicated to the morphosyntactic properties and grammatical functions of the Shughni marker -ard. Shughni, like many other Iranian languages, has a reduced case system that seems to be gradually evolving and expanding. We demonstrate that the marker -ard is one of the main candidates for the status of a new case marker ...
Added: January 21, 2026
Lyavdansky A., Cherkashina A., Rashid D., , in: From Moscow to Baghdad: Studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in Memory of Nikolai Seleznyov.: Brill, 2026. P. 389–455.
This article explores examples of influence from the Arabic magical traditions, both Christian and Muslim, that can be found in modern Syriac magical manuscripts. The following aspects of Arabic influence are discussed: visual elements (diagonal writing, kharaktēres, pseudo-Arabic script), terminology, texts containing Arabic formulae, magical practices, angels and demons (Gabriel and Michael, Tebʿā), and magic ...
Added: May 1, 2025
Rakhilina E. V., Ryzhova D., Вопросы языкознания 2025 № 2 С. 7–25
The paper is devoted to the basic principles of verbal colexification defined at the cross-linguistic
level. We understand colexification as a non-random association of two or more meanings within one
and the same lexical item. We argue that these associations, reproducing in different languages, should
follow certain principles and form clear patterns. Drawing on our extensive experience of ...
Added: March 11, 2025
Бадеев А. О., Вопросы языкового родства 2024 № 1-2 (22) С. 75–105
In this paper I discuss the use of demonstratives in Old Iranian languages. On the basis of the deictic semantics of demonstratives, the boundaries of suppletive paradigms are defined. For the first time, the correspondence of each paradigm to a particular type of deixis is established on Old Iranian data. Using this data, as well ...
Added: November 20, 2024
Armand E., Вопросы языкового родства 2024 Т. 22 № 1-2 С. 43–74
In this paper, I present a descriptive and diachronic analysis of a set of Shughni verbs which include preverbs of Common Iranian origin (a-, an-/im-/am-, bar-, bi-/be-/b-, nax̌-/naɣ̌-/nix̌-, ni-/na-). The main objective of the study is to determine the quantity, grammatical status, and semantic features of these preverbs in the modern Shughni verb system, and ...
Added: October 21, 2024
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2023.
В первом разделе сборника представлены труды конференции, приуроченной к юбилею А.Г. Беловой – крупнейшего специалиста по арабистике и семитологии. Другие разделы посвящены полевым исследованиям, частным вопросам лексики и грамматики восточных языков, истории лингвистики. Книга адресована специалистам в различных областях общего и востоковедного языкознания. ...
Added: February 18, 2024
Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 22–48
The first part of the inquiry on Syriac love charms was devoted to the recipe-type
charms. This article edits four more Syriac love charms, which are attributed to the so-called prayer-type. The special features of this type of Syriac love charms are addressed and compared with that of the recipe-type texts, edited in Part I. The ...
Added: December 17, 2022
Cherkashina A., Cherkashin D., Saar O., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2022 Vol. 18 No. 1 P. 49–84
This article considers a text-unit known in five Syriac codices and consisting of up to
three magical recipes. The target of all these recipes is a mill: two of them are curses
(ˀassārā ‘binding spell’) and intend to stop the mill, while the third one is a counter-spell
(šeryānā ‘loosening spell’), which aims to annul the curse. One ...
Added: October 29, 2022
Bulakh M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 1 P. 235–325
North Argobba is a South Ethio-Semitic idiom used by Argobba communities in the villages of Shonke and T’ollaha (Oromiya zone of Amhara region of Ethiopia). One of the most striking features of North Argobba is the presence of the gutturals ʔ, ʕ, h, and ḥ as distinct phonemes. While the importance of this feature has ...
Added: November 9, 2021
Kalinin M., Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Akkadian, a Semitic language attested in writing from 2600 BCE until the first century CE, was the language of Mesopotamia for nearly three millennia. This volume examines the language from a comparative and historical linguistic perspective.
Inspired by the work of renowned linguist John Huehnergard and featuring contributions from top scholars in the field, Bēl Lišāni showcases the ...
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Fridman I., Вопросы языкознания 2020 № 6 С. 139–153
В сентябре 2013 года во Франкфурте-на-Майне состоялся международный симпозиум
под названием «Проспектив как грамматическая категория: свидетельства тюркских,
иранских и других языков» (о симпозиуме см. также http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/
prospective/). Целью участников этого симпозиума было исследование проксимативных
и проспективных форм в ареальной перспективе, в центре которой находились тюркские
и иранские языки, а на периферии — новоарамейские, монгольские и ряд нетюркских
языков Сибири. Через четыре ...
Added: September 17, 2021
Cherkashina A., Lyavdansky A., Scrinium: Journal of Patrology and Critical Hagiography 2021 Vol. 17 P. 68–91
In this paper we consider 6 Syriac love charms and edit their original text and translation. All but two texts are published here for the first time. This is the first part of our inquiry, in which we consider one of the two types of Syriac love charms, the recipe-type. Among its primary characteristics is ...
Added: July 9, 2021
Nurullin R., Kogan L., Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
Akkadian, the oldest surviving Semitic language and one of the most important Ancient Near Eastern languages, is one of the best documented languages of the ancient world. This nine volume encyclopedic set presents a detailed compendium of Akkadian vocabulary that will prove a vital resource for students and scholars of language, Ancient Near Eastern studies, ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Maisak T., Journal of Language Contact 2021 Vol. 14 P. 331–368
Following Stilo’s (2018) study of small-inventory classifier systems in a number of Indo-European, Turkic, Kartvelian and Semitic languages of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area, the paper presents an account of numeral classifiers in Udi, a Nakh-Daghestanian (Lezgic) language spoken in northern Azerbaijan. Being a pripheral member of the linguistic area in question, Udi possesses an even ...
Added: August 31, 2020
Muraviev A., Издательский дом ЯСК, 2020.
The book deals with the history of the Western Syriac linguoconfessional group (suryāyē) in the 6-th cent. AD and the emrgence of their ethno-religious identity under Justin I and Justinian. West Syrians, who spoke and wrote in Classical Syriac after 451 became opponents of the Council of Chalcedon and started to develop a system of special identity markers ...
Added: June 14, 2020
Muraviev A., В кн.: Очерки истории христианских цивилизаций: в двух томахТ. 1: От зарождения до арабских завоеваний. В двух книгах. Кн. 2: Части 4-8.: М.: РОССПЭН, 2019. С. 70–77.
Syriac script and its derivatives ...
Added: January 24, 2020