Iranian Loanwords in Syriac (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783895006241)

Contributor Biography - English Claudia A. Ciancaglini, born in Torino (Italy), is associate professor of Historical Linguistics at Faculty of Oriental Studies of "La Sapienza" University, Rome. Her research interests mainly focus on linguistic contact and genealogy, classical philology, Old Persian and Middle Iranian languages, Classical Syriac, Ancient Greek philosophy, Indo-European studies. Among a number of articles in scholarly journals, she has published: "Sciti, iranici, nomadi: problemi di etnonimia in Strabone" (2001); "The Syriac Version of the Alexander Romance" (2001); "Le 'lettere persiane' nelle Storie di Teofilatto Simocatta" (2004).