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160132 PS Proseminar to the Historical Grammar of a further Indo-European Language of Asia (2018S)

Behistun, Regina Inscriptionum

Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 40 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 07.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 14.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 21.03. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 11.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 18.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 25.04. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 02.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 09.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 16.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 23.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 30.05. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 06.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 13.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 20.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Wednesday 27.06. 16:00 - 17:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Becoming as competent as possible in the field of Old Persian grammar in all its synchronic and diachronic aspects by interpreting together the report Darius the Great has left us of his own usurpation in his mother tongue on the rock of Bisotun and applying to it the strictest possible linguistic and philological methods. Each and every form will be taken care of, and each and every argument will be evaluated with the greatest possible circumspection..

Assessment and permitted materials

Oral and written homework -- Reading short papers.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Regular participation in the course and carrying out every single oral and written exercise each of which will be given individual marks.

Examination topics

All sorts of (home)work to be done on the basis of what was taught.

Reading list

(1) CHUL-HYUN BAE, Comparative Studies of King Darius’s Bisitun Inscription. Diss. Harvard (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) 2001.
(2) Bisutun. Ausgrabungen und Forschungen in den Jahren 1963-1967. Hrsg. von W. KLEISS – P. CALMEYER. [Teheraner Forschungen VII]. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1996.
(3) JONAS C. GREENFIELD – BEZALEL PORTEN, The Bisitun Inscription of Darius the Great. Aramaic Version. Text, Translation and Commentary (Introduction by B.P. – Hand Copy by A. Yardeni). [CII I/V/I]. London: Lund Humphries, 1982.
(4) AMÉLIE KUHRT, The Persian Empire. Vol. I-II. London – New York: Routledge, 2007.
(5) PIERRE LECOQ, Les inscriptions de la Perse achéménide. Traduit du vieux perse, de l’ élamite, du babylonien et de l’araméen, présenté et annoté par P.L. Édition Gallimard 1997.
(6) FLORENCE MALBRAN-LABAT, La version akkadienne de l’inscription trilingue de Darius à Behistun. [Documenta Asiana I]. Roma: GEI, 1994.
(7) RÜDIGER SCHMITT, The Bisitun Inscriptions of Darius the Great. Old Persian Text. [CII I/ I/I]. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1991.
(8) Id., Die altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden. Editio minor mit deutscher Übersetzung. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2009.
(9) Id., Wörterbuch der altpersischen Königsinschriften. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2014.
(10) Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments I/4: Rechts- und Wirtschafts-urkunden – Historisch-chronologische Texte I [übersetzt und bearbeitet von] R. BORGER, W. HINZ und W.H.PH. RÖMER. Gütersloh 1984.
(11) CHLODWIG H. WERBA, Das Epitheton achaimenidischer Macht und Größe – Medisches Erbe oder altpersische Neubildung. In: V. Naddaf – F. Goshtasb – M. Shokri-Foumeshi (ed.), Ranj-o-Ganj [‘Ohne Fleiß kein Preis’]. Papers in honour of Professor Zohre Zarshenas. Tehran 2013, p. 119-140.
(12) Id., Ur(indo)arisches im Nūristānī: Zur historischen Phonologie des Indoiranischen. In: A.M. Byrd – J. DeLisi – M. Wenthe (ed.), tavet tat satyam. Studies in Honor of Jared S. Klein on the Occasion of his Seven¬tieth Birth¬day. Ann Arbor – New York 2016, p. 341-359.
(13) R.D. WOODARD (ed.), The Cambridge Encylcopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge University Press 2004.

Association in the course directory

MA4-WM3.1

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