Jost Halfmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 287850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jost Halfmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jost |
| FAMILY NAME | Halfmann |
| SIGNATURE | HALFMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3184-4022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments 1
A bstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new first‐hand data from the Almosi inscription site and suggest decipherments for a few previously und…
Observations on Lines 1–3 of the Gāndhārī Part of the Dašt-i Nāwur Trilingual (DN IV)
Ever since its first edition by Gérard FUSSMAN (1974), progress in the understanding of the trilingual Kushan royal inscription of Dašt-i Nāwur has been hindered by inadequate photographic documentation and the over-all unfavourable state of the inscription documented in these photographs. This holds especially true for the Kharoṣṭhī/Gāndhārī part of the inscription (DN IV). However, recent advances in Kushan studies and the interpretation of the…
From noun to future tense: The functional diachrony of the l -future in the Nuristani languages and its typological background
This article explores a typologically unusual but recurrent evolutionary path of innovated future formations neglected by typological research: the change of predicative deverbal nouns (understood here in the broad sense of any deverbal nominal expression/formation) – namely agent nouns and participles – denoting actions typical of referents to future verb-forms via hypoanalysis. Starting with an overview of typologically recurrent ways of creati…
A New Reading of the Bactrian Part of the Dašt-i Nāwur Trilingual (DN I)
The trilingual Kushan royal inscription of Dašt-i Nāwur has been the subject of scholarly controversies since the time of its first scientific publication (Fussman 1974), with different authors defending opposing views and mutually incompatible readings, in particular of the Bactrian part of the inscription (e.g. Davary & Humbach 1976; Sims-Williams & Cribb 1996; Fussman 1998). Progress in the understanding of the inscription has been hampered by…
A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script
Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful. The recent discovery of previously unknown inscriptions near the Almosi gorge, Tajikistan, however, allows for …
"Lād "law: A Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages
This article proposes a new etymology for the Nuristani word family of Katë lod ~ lot, Nuristani Kalasha lād, etc. It is argued that these are best understood as early borrowings from Bactrian λαδο "law
Terminological Proposals for the Nuristani languages
Recent years have seen an increase in the variety of language names used for the Nuristani languages (Indo-Iranian), which are spoken in Eastern Afghanistan and to some extent across the border in Northern Pakistan. This increase is driven by efforts to recognize local practices, but it has also created confusion and inconsistencies in many areas, making terminological justifications a necessary part of every publication regarding these languages…
Pegida - Populismus in Dresden und darüber hinaus
Wissen, Wissenschaft und Global Commons: Forschung zu Wissenschaft und Politik jenseits des Staates am Beispiel von Regulierung und Konstrukt
Organisationen der Forschung
Der Band analysiert die Organisation der Forschung. Dabei spielt Organisation in zwei Hinsichten eine Rolle. Einerseits konditionieren Organisationen Forschung, die Bewährungschancen für neues Wissen generiert, als Entscheidungsprozess. Zum anderen vermitteln Organisationen den Leistungstransfer zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik oder Wirtschaft. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge zu beiden Themen mit besonderem Blick auf Klimaforschung und Klimapoli…
Organisationen der Forschung: Der Fall der Atmosphärenwissenschaft
Organisationen der Forschung: Der Fall der Atmosphärenwissenschaft
Christian Lahusen: Kontraktuelle Politik. Politische Vergesellschaftung am Beispiel der Luftreinhaltung in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und den USA
Hauptwerke der Ungleichheitsforschung
Die zentralen Werke der Ungleichheitsforschung werden gut verstandlich und kompakt in ihren Hauptaussagen dargestellt.
The Rise and Demise of German Statism: Loyalty and Political Membership
Politischer Inklusionsuniversalismus und migratorisches Exklusionsrisiko
Citizenship Universalism, Migration and the Risks of Exclusion
The concept of functional differentiation is used to reformulate citizenship as inclusion in the political system and to describe the effects of the nation-State segmentation of the political system for the evolution of citizenship. In modern (functionally differentiated) society inclusion is system-specific, but not all-embracing. Inclusion in the political system is offered via two types of roles: the lay role of the voter and the professional …
Immigration and Citizenship in Germany: Contemporary Dilemmas
The paper starts from a paradox of contemporary German politics: after the unification of the two Germanies the ethnocultural grounding of German citizenship has lost its historical meaning; at the same time violent conflicts and heated debate over the rights to full membership for immigrants in the German state have developed. After a theoretical discussion of the notions of nation state, citizenship, and immigration, the development of the cont…
Two discourses of citizenship in Germany. The difference between public debate and administrative practice
The recent policy changes concerning immigration and citizenship in Germany are interpreted as outcomes of the conflicting interaction between public deliberations and administrative practices. While these changes were viewed by both the public and the state as responses to an emerging crisis of the stability of German nationhood, the public and the state placed the problems of migration and citizenship in a different context. The public debated …
Technische Innovationen in der Risikogesellschaft
Moderne soziale Bewegungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Reichweite und Wirkungen
From defeat to demise: German nationalism at the end of the twentieth century
To many the emergence and strong electoral showing of a right-wing Party, the ‘Republikaner’, in the Federal Republic of Germany in the eighties’ and the discovery of xenophobic and antisemitic outbursts in the German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Communist regime came as a shock. Together with the unification emotions which briefly swept both German states’ in 1989/90, it appears that German nationalism is on the rise again. The aggr…
Riskante Entscheidungen und Katastrophenpotentiale: Elemente einer soziologischen Risikoforschung
The German Left and Democracy
Grenzen sozialer Differenzierung – Grenzen des Wachstums öffentlicher Sozialdienste
Theorien sozialer Differenzierung gehen von einer unwiderstehlichen Ausbreitung der Strategien funktionaler Differenzierung aus. Je stärker ausdifferenziert soziale Systeme sind, so lautet die These, desto selektiver können sie sich gegenüber ihren Umwelten verhalten. Nun gibt es empirische Indikatoren für die Begrenzung von Ausdifferenzierungsprozessen, die durch Selektivitätsverluste und das Nicht-Greifen der Organisationsmittel Macht, Recht, G…
Immigration and Citizenship in Germany: Contemporary Dilemmas
The paper starts from a paradox of contemporary German politics: after the unification of the two Germanies the ethnocultural grounding of German citizenship has lost its historical meaning; at the same time violent conflicts and heated debate over the rights to full membership for immigrants in the German state have developed. After a theoretical discussion of the notions of nation state, citizenship, and immigration, the development of the cont…
Citizenship Universalism, Migration and the Risks of Exclusion
The concept of functional differentiation is used to reformulate citizenship as inclusion in the political system and to describe the effects of the nation-State segmentation of the political system for the evolution of citizenship. In modern (functionally differentiated) society inclusion is system-specific, but not all-embracing. Inclusion in the political system is offered via two types of roles: the lay role of the voter and the professional …
A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script
Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful. The recent discovery of previously unknown inscriptions near the Almosi gorge, Tajikistan, however, allows for …
Grenzen sozialer Differenzierung – Grenzen des Wachstums öffentlicher Sozialdienste
Theorien sozialer Differenzierung gehen von einer unwiderstehlichen Ausbreitung der Strategien funktionaler Differenzierung aus. Je stärker ausdifferenziert soziale Systeme sind, so lautet die These, desto selektiver können sie sich gegenüber ihren Umwelten verhalten. Nun gibt es empirische Indikatoren für die Begrenzung von Ausdifferenzierungsprozessen, die durch Selektivitätsverluste und das Nicht-Greifen der Organisationsmittel Macht, Recht, G…
A New Reading of the Bactrian Part of the Dašt-i Nāwur Trilingual (DN I)
The trilingual Kushan royal inscription of Dašt-i Nāwur has been the subject of scholarly controversies since the time of its first scientific publication (Fussman 1974), with different authors defending opposing views and mutually incompatible readings, in particular of the Bactrian part of the inscription (e.g. Davary & Humbach 1976; Sims-Williams & Cribb 1996; Fussman 1998). Progress in the understanding of the inscription has been hampered by…
"Lād "law: A Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages
This article proposes a new etymology for the Nuristani word family of Katë lod ~ lot, Nuristani Kalasha lād, etc. It is argued that these are best understood as early borrowings from Bactrian λαδο "law
Two discourses of citizenship in Germany. The difference between public debate and administrative practice
The recent policy changes concerning immigration and citizenship in Germany are interpreted as outcomes of the conflicting interaction between public deliberations and administrative practices. While these changes were viewed by both the public and the state as responses to an emerging crisis of the stability of German nationhood, the public and the state placed the problems of migration and citizenship in a different context. The public debated …
The German Left and Democracy
Wissenschaftliche Entwicklung und Evolutionstheorie
Die wissenschaftstheoretische Interpretation von Wissenschaft war lange dadurch charakterisiert, daß wissenschaftliche Entwicklung sich zwar in der Zeit, aber nicht in der Geschichte abspielte. Wissenschaftliche Objekterkenntnis ist - diesem Bild gemäß - auf die langwierige Forschungsarbeit verwiesen, die sich dem Wissenschaftsziel, wahre und umfassende Erkenntnis, muhsam annahert; der Zeithorizont wird in dem Bekenntnis, «that we stand on the sh…
Grenzen sozialer Differenzierung – Grenzen des Wachstums öffentlicher Sozialdienste
Theorien sozialer Differenzierung gehen von einer unwiderstehlichen Ausbreitung der Strategien funktionaler Differenzierung aus. Je stärker ausdifferenziert soziale Systeme sind, so lautet die These, desto selektiver können sie sich gegenüber ihren Umwelten verhalten. Nun gibt es empirische Indikatoren für die Begrenzung von Ausdifferenzierungsprozessen, die durch Selektivitätsverluste und das Nicht-Greifen der Organisationsmittel Macht, Recht, G…
The German Left and Democracy
Riskante Entscheidungen und Katastrophenpotentiale: Elemente einer soziologischen Risikoforschung
From defeat to demise: German nationalism at the end of the twentieth century
To many the emergence and strong electoral showing of a right-wing Party, the ‘Republikaner’, in the Federal Republic of Germany in the eighties’ and the discovery of xenophobic and antisemitic outbursts in the German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Communist regime came as a shock. Together with the unification emotions which briefly swept both German states’ in 1989/90, it appears that German nationalism is on the rise again. The aggr…
Moderne soziale Bewegungen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Reichweite und Wirkungen
Technische Innovationen in der Risikogesellschaft
Immigration and Citizenship in Germany: Contemporary Dilemmas
The paper starts from a paradox of contemporary German politics: after the unification of the two Germanies the ethnocultural grounding of German citizenship has lost its historical meaning; at the same time violent conflicts and heated debate over the rights to full membership for immigrants in the German state have developed. After a theoretical discussion of the notions of nation state, citizenship, and immigration, the development of the cont…
Two discourses of citizenship in Germany. The difference between public debate and administrative practice
The recent policy changes concerning immigration and citizenship in Germany are interpreted as outcomes of the conflicting interaction between public deliberations and administrative practices. While these changes were viewed by both the public and the state as responses to an emerging crisis of the stability of German nationhood, the public and the state placed the problems of migration and citizenship in a different context. The public debated …
Politischer Inklusionsuniversalismus und migratorisches Exklusionsrisiko
Citizenship Universalism, Migration and the Risks of Exclusion
The concept of functional differentiation is used to reformulate citizenship as inclusion in the political system and to describe the effects of the nation-State segmentation of the political system for the evolution of citizenship. In modern (functionally differentiated) society inclusion is system-specific, but not all-embracing. Inclusion in the political system is offered via two types of roles: the lay role of the voter and the professional …
The Rise and Demise of German Statism: Loyalty and Political Membership
Hauptwerke der Ungleichheitsforschung
Die zentralen Werke der Ungleichheitsforschung werden gut verstandlich und kompakt in ihren Hauptaussagen dargestellt.
Christian Lahusen: Kontraktuelle Politik. Politische Vergesellschaftung am Beispiel der Luftreinhaltung in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und den USA
Organisationen der Forschung
Der Band analysiert die Organisation der Forschung. Dabei spielt Organisation in zwei Hinsichten eine Rolle. Einerseits konditionieren Organisationen Forschung, die Bewährungschancen für neues Wissen generiert, als Entscheidungsprozess. Zum anderen vermitteln Organisationen den Leistungstransfer zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik oder Wirtschaft. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge zu beiden Themen mit besonderem Blick auf Klimaforschung und Klimapoli…
Organisationen der Forschung: Der Fall der Atmosphärenwissenschaft
Organisationen der Forschung: Der Fall der Atmosphärenwissenschaft
Wissen, Wissenschaft und Global Commons: Forschung zu Wissenschaft und Politik jenseits des Staates am Beispiel von Regulierung und Konstrukt
Pegida - Populismus in Dresden und darüber hinaus
Terminological Proposals for the Nuristani languages
Recent years have seen an increase in the variety of language names used for the Nuristani languages (Indo-Iranian), which are spoken in Eastern Afghanistan and to some extent across the border in Northern Pakistan. This increase is driven by efforts to recognize local practices, but it has also created confusion and inconsistencies in many areas, making terminological justifications a necessary part of every publication regarding these languages…
From noun to future tense: The functional diachrony of the l -future in the Nuristani languages and its typological background
This article explores a typologically unusual but recurrent evolutionary path of innovated future formations neglected by typological research: the change of predicative deverbal nouns (understood here in the broad sense of any deverbal nominal expression/formation) – namely agent nouns and participles – denoting actions typical of referents to future verb-forms via hypoanalysis. Starting with an overview of typologically recurrent ways of creati…
A New Reading of the Bactrian Part of the Dašt-i Nāwur Trilingual (DN I)
The trilingual Kushan royal inscription of Dašt-i Nāwur has been the subject of scholarly controversies since the time of its first scientific publication (Fussman 1974), with different authors defending opposing views and mutually incompatible readings, in particular of the Bactrian part of the inscription (e.g. Davary & Humbach 1976; Sims-Williams & Cribb 1996; Fussman 1998). Progress in the understanding of the inscription has been hampered by…
A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script
Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful. The recent discovery of previously unknown inscriptions near the Almosi gorge, Tajikistan, however, allows for …
"Lād "law: A Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages
This article proposes a new etymology for the Nuristani word family of Katë lod ~ lot, Nuristani Kalasha lād, etc. It is argued that these are best understood as early borrowings from Bactrian λαδο "law
Observations on Lines 1–3 of the Gāndhārī Part of the Dašt-i Nāwur Trilingual (DN IV)
Ever since its first edition by Gérard FUSSMAN (1974), progress in the understanding of the trilingual Kushan royal inscription of Dašt-i Nāwur has been hindered by inadequate photographic documentation and the over-all unfavourable state of the inscription documented in these photographs. This holds especially true for the Kharoṣṭhī/Gāndhārī part of the inscription (DN IV). However, recent advances in Kushan studies and the interpretation of the…
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