Svenja Bonmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 5662410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svenja Bonmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svenja |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonmann |
| SIGNATURE | BONMANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Linguistics University of Cologne and University of Würzburg and National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan Cologne Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4005-7891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the Huns is still debated. Here, we show that linguistic evidence from four independent domains does indeed s…
Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages
Differential object marking (DOM) is known from a great variety of language families. We present data suggesting that, contrary to what is suggested in recent typological surveys, DOM is also a widespread phenomenon in Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. To do this, we show why the identification of DOM constructions in these languages is difficult, propose a definition for DOM that takes note of the peculiarities of symmetrical voice syste…
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…
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 …
Word-internal “thorn” clusters and the dative singular of the PIE 1 st person pronoun
Early PIE had an unstressed 1st person pronoun dative singular *(h1)medɦgɦi̯o. Already before the breakup of PIE, this *(h1)medɦgɦi̯o underwent a regular simplification of its consonant cluster (*VT.KI̯V > *V.KI̯V) which resulted in PIE *(h1)megɦi̯o. This reduction is reminiscent of the weather-rule insofar as it depended on an unaccented vowel preceding the consonant cluster. The Pre-Germanic dialect of PIE did not participate in this reducti…
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 …
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…
Word-internal “thorn” clusters and the dative singular of the PIE 1 st person pronoun
Early PIE had an unstressed 1st person pronoun dative singular *(h1)medɦgɦi̯o. Already before the breakup of PIE, this *(h1)medɦgɦi̯o underwent a regular simplification of its consonant cluster (*VT.KI̯V > *V.KI̯V) which resulted in PIE *(h1)megɦi̯o. This reduction is reminiscent of the weather-rule insofar as it depended on an unaccented vowel preceding the consonant cluster. The Pre-Germanic dialect of PIE did not participate in this reducti…
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 …
Differential object marking in Western Malayo-Polynesian symmetrical voice languages
Differential object marking (DOM) is known from a great variety of language families. We present data suggesting that, contrary to what is suggested in recent typological surveys, DOM is also a widespread phenomenon in Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. To do this, we show why the identification of DOM constructions in these languages is difficult, propose a definition for DOM that takes note of the peculiarities of symmetrical voice syste…
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…
Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the Huns is still debated. Here, we show that linguistic evidence from four independent domains does indeed s…
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