160129 PS Proseminar to the Historical Grammar of a further Indo-European Language of Asia (2015W)

1.) Text preparation at home, translating and analysing in class (30%; evaluated individually per session); 2.) Translation and analyses of a piece of text at home (50%; to be handed in on 31. March 2016); 3.) Reading and summarising (2 DINA4 pages) of EITHER a) Hansen, Valerie: The Silk Road. A new history, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press 2012 OR b) Mallory, J. P.: The Tarim mummies. Ancient China and the mystery of the earliest peoples from the West, London: Thames&Hudson 2000 OR c) Christopher I. Beckwith: Empires of the Silk Road. A history of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the presen, Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press 2009 (20%; to be handed in on 31. March 2016).