Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication of 

Berthold Delbrück, Altindische Syntax. Corrected and newly typset edition, with an Index locorum to the Rigveda, by Andreas Pohlus.

Berthold Delbrück (1842-1922), the founder of comparative syntax of Indo-European languages, published his Old Indian Syntax in 1888, describing the stage of language that the grammarian Pāṇini calls Vedic, that is, the language of the Vedic Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas. Delbrück presents this with admirable thoroughness on the basis of the texts available to him. First, he treats the basic sentence structure and word order, and then examines the parts of speech in more detail. The whole is always supported by extensive text excerpts, almost all of which are translated, and is made accessible by a word, subject, and references index. The present edition is a completely new edition, taking into account Delbrück's own additions and corrections. The new edition follows the transcription of the Sanskrit used today, and the occasional corrigenda and addenda are marked as such.

Andreas Pohlus is a research associate at the Seminar for South Asian Studies and Indology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis | Volume 25

1st edition 2023

hardback edition, 602 pages

ISBN 978-3-86977-257-8

Link to series:https://uvhw.de/studia-indologica.html

With best wishes,

Petra Kieffer-Pülz