This thorough edition of a Sumerian poem featuring the hero Enmerkar makes use of many newly identified exemplars of the composition. In addition, in his commentary the author makes a good case that story and script were created for performance.
Over two millennia scholars produced a huge literature of commentaries to explain how the rules of Sanskrit... Læs mere
A comprehensive guide to the Old Persian language, including a detailed grammar section, which covers the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Old Persian. It also... Læs mere
This book studies the south-central Alborz as a language transition zone. This is a... Læs mere
This monograph details the phonological evolution of the Tocharian language family. It outlines how a highly distinctive branch of Indo-European transitioned into the unified ancestor of Tocharian A and B.
This study reconstructs Mesopotamian geography based primarily on the third-millennium lists of geographical place names found at Abu Salabikh in Mesopotamian and at Ebla in Syria.