CONTENTS
Preface
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Welcome to Participants by Gherardo Gnoli
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Welcome Address ofthe President ofthe Societas Iranologica Europaea by Antonio Panaino
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Inaugurai Speech ofthe Director ofthe IsIAO Centre ofLexicograplzy by Adriano V. Rossi
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KEYNOTE SPEECHES
J. Kellens, En amont du moyen-iranien: la lexicographie avestique
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R. Schmitt, Middle Iranian Words and Names in the Foreign Tradition
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T. Oriandi, Computer Applications to Lexicographical Research
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STATE-Of-THE-ART REpORTS
w. Sundermann, On the Identity and the Unity ofthe Parthian Language, and on its Unknown Words
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Elﾃ経 Provasi, Sogdian Lexicography
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D. Durkin-Meisterernst, Khwarezmian Lexicology
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tR.E. Emmerick and M. Maggi, Khotanese Lexicography
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LEXICOGRAPHICAL PROJECTS
Sh. Shaked and c.G. Cereti, A Middle Persian Dictionary: Project Proposal 181 D. Durkin-Meisterernst, Lexicography ofWestern Middle Iranian: the Manichaean Dictionary Project
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E. Morano, Preparing the corpus of the Sogdian texts for the SOAS Manichaean Dictionary Project 215 tR.E. Emmerick and M. Maggi, A New Historical and Etymological Dictionary ofKhotanese 227
LEXICAL STUDI ES
c.G. Cereti, Avestan Names and Words in Middle Persian Garb
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c.A. Ciancaglini, Iranian Loanwords in Syriac: Some Problems in Chronology and Cultural History
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1. Colditz, Terminological Dualism in Middle Persian and Parthian
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S. Cristoforetti, Halila come termine rituale presso i Sulaymiini nel Garmsir del Kirmiin? 289 E. Filippone, Homonymy, Polysemy and Metaphor: Notes on Middle 317 Persian Lexicography Th.E. Gindin, Middle Persian Survivals and Other Lexical Puzzles in Early Judaeo-Persian 331 D. Guizzo, Lessico zoroastriano di origine pahlavica e avestica nel Farhang-i Jahanglri 351 1. Josephson, The Importance of the Pahlavi Translation Texts for a Middle Persian Dictionary
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M. Macuch, On Middle Persian LegaI Terminology
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A. Williams, Lexicography and Zoroastrian Meanings in the Pahlavi Books 387
Closing Speech by Gherardo Gnoli
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Abbreviations
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