ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2024

  • Journal Article

    • Abedi, Milad; Müller, Samira; Behr, Wolfgang; Wertmann, Patrick (2024). Following the Donkey’s Trail (Part II): a linguistic and archaeological study on the introduction of domestic donkeys to China. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 6(2):294-358.
    • Müller, Samira; Abedi, Milad; Behr, Wolfgang; Wertmann, Patrick (2024). Following the Donkey's Trail (Part I): a linguistic and archaeological study on the introduction of domestic donkeys to China. International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 6(1):104-144.

  • Book Section

    • Müller, Samira (2024). Unterschwellige Hilfeleistungen in der Krise: buddhistische Hygienevorschriften im chinesischen Mittelalter. In: Behr, Wolfgang; Grano, Simona Alba; Imbach, Jessica; Jaguscik, Justyna; Müller, Samira; Riemenschnitter, Andrea; Suter, Rafael; Wertmann, Patrick; Winter, Marc. Krise und Risiko : China und der Umgang mit Unwägbarkeit. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 137-162.
    • Behr, Wolfgang; Grano, Simona Alba; Suter, Rafael (2024). Einleitung. In: Behr, Wolfgang; Grano, Simona; Imbach, Jessica; Jaguscik, Justyna; Müller, Samira; Riemenschnitter, Andrea; Suter, Rafael; Wertmann, Patrick; Winter, Marc. Krise und Risiko : China und der Umgang mit Unwägbarkeit. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 3-14.

  • Edited Scientific Work

    • Edited by: Behr, Wolfgang; Grano, Simona Alba; Imbach, Jessica; Jaguscik, Justyna; Müller, Samira; Riemenschnitter, Andrea; Suter, Rafael; Wertmann, Patrick; Winter, Marc (2024). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Krise und Risiko: China und der Umgang mit Unwägbarkeit.

• 2023

  • Journal Article

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2023). Tracing variation in Old Chinese: what, if anything, was "yǎyán 雅言"?. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 51(2):287-346.

• 2021

  • Journal Article

    • Widmer, Manuel; Jenny, Mathias; Behr, Wolfgang; Bickel, Balthasar (2021). Morphological structure can escape reduction effects from mass admixture of second language speakers. Studies in Language, 45(4):707-752.

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2021). Inscription Placement, the Ineffability of Language, and Discourses on Hiddenness: Marginalia on the Prehistory of Subtlety (wei) in Early China. In: Hofmann, Henriette; Wildgruber, Gerald; Schellewald, Barbara; Schweinfurth, Sophie. Enthüllen und Verbergen in der Vormoderne / Revealing and Concealing in the Premodern Period. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 87-126.

  • Edited Scientific Work

    • Edited by: Lukicheva, Polina; Suter, Rafael; Behr, Wolfgang (2021). Zurich: De Gruyter. Vision and Visuality in Buddhism and Beyond (Sonderheft aus der Zeitschrift Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques).

• 2020

  • Journal Article

    • Lukicheva, Polina; Suter, Rafael; Behr, Wolfgang (2020). Vision and visuality in buddhism and beyond: an introduction. Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 74(4):753-770.

  • Book Section

    • Suter, Rafael; Indraccolo, Lisa; Behr, Wolfgang (2020). The Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ and Other Neglected Texts – Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives: An Introduction. In: Suter, Rafael; Indraccolo, Lisa; Behr, Wolfgang. The Gongsun Longzi and Other Neglected Texts : Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 1-20.
    • Suter, Rafael (2020). Buddhist Murmurs? – Another Look at the Composition of the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ. In: Suter, Rafael; Indraccolo, Lisa; Behr, Wolfgang. The Gongsun Longzi and Other Neglected Texts : Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 429-558.

  • Edited Scientific Work

    • Edited by: Suter, Rafael; Indraccolo, Lisa; Behr, Wolfgang (2020). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. The Gongsun Longzi and Other Neglected Texts : Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives.

• 2019

  • Scientific Publication in Electronic Form

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2019). ‘Urheimat’ der Chinesen. Die Sprach­wis­sen­schaft und die Suche nach ‘Wurzeln’. Berlin: Geschichte der Gegenwart.

• 2018

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2018). 'Monosyllabism‘ and some other perennial clichés about the nature, origins and contacts of the Chinese language in Europe. In: Malinar, Angelika; Müller, Simone. Asia and Europe – Interconnected: Agents, Concepts, and Things. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 155-209.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2018). Self-refutation’ (bèi) in Early Chinese argumentative prose: sidelights on the linguistic pre­history of incipient epistemology. In: Steineck, Raji C; Weber, Ralph; Gassmann, Robert; Lange, Helena. Con­cepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic world. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 141-187.

• 2017

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2017). The language of the bronze inscriptions. In: Shaughnessy, Edward. Imprints of Kinship: Studies of Recently Discovered Bronze Inscritpions from Ancient China. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press of Hong Kong, 9-32.
    • Suter, Rafael (2017). Philosophy of Language: Pre-Qín through Eastern Hàn. In: Sybesma, Rint; Behr, Wolfgang; et al. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill, 375-395.
    • Suter, Rafael (2017). Philosophy of Language: Eastern Hàn, Medieval and Later Developments. In: Sybesma, Rint; Behr, Wolfgang; et al. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill, 367-375.
    • Suter, Rafael (2017). Philosophy of Language: Buddhist Theories of Language. In: Sybesma, Rint; Behr, Wolfgang; et al. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill, 360-367.
    • Suter, Rafael (2017). Graham, Angus C. (1919–1991). In: Sybesma, Rint; Behr, Wolfgang; et al. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill, 310-316.
    • Winter, Marc (2017). Kangxi zidian 康熙字典. In: Sybesma, Rint; Behr, Wolfgang; et al. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill Verlag, 482-485.
    • Gassmann, Robert H (2017). Yě 也 in Classical Chinese. In: Sybesma, Rint; Behr, Wolfang; et al. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill, 649-655.

  • Edited Scientific Work

    • Edited by: Sybesma, R P E; Handel, Zev; Behr, Wolfgang; et al (2017). Leiden: Brill. Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics Online Edition.

• 2016

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2016). Shuo ren jing. In: Cook, Constance; Goldin, Paul. A Sourcebook of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China, 398-402.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2016). Piao Qiang zhong. In: Cook, Constance; Goldin, Paul. A Sourcebook of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China, 286-288.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2016). Dishi hu. In: Cook, Constance; Goldin, Paul. A Sourcebook of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China, 282-283.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2016). Guo zuo dan. In: Cook, Constance; Goldin, Paul. A Sourcebook of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China, 280-281.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2016). Liang Qi zhong. In: Cook, Constance; Goldin, Paul. A Sourcebook of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions. Berkeley: The Society for the Study of Early China, 227-229.

• 2015

  • Journal Article

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2015). G.Sampson, 'A phonological enigma': Four Comments. Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 43:719-732.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2015). Der gegenwärtige Forschungsstand zur Etymologie von rén 仁 im Überblick. Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, 38:199-224.

  • Book Section

    • Steineck, Raji C (2015). Satori als Trauma?. In: Behr, Wolfgang; Di Giacinto, Licia; Döring, Ole; Moll-Murata, Christine. Auf Augenhöhe: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Heiner Roetz. München: Iudicium Verlag, 422-433.

  • Edited Scientific Work

    • Edited by: Behr, Wolfgang; Sun, Jingtao (2015). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Papers from the Li Fang-Kuei Society Young Scholar's Symposium 2013.

• 2014

  • Journal Article

    • Indraccolo, Lisa; Behr, Wolfgang (2014). Masters of disguise? - Conceptions and misconceptions of 'rhetoric' in Chinese antiquity. Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 68(4):889-913.
    • Indraccolo, Lisa; Behr, Wolfgang (2014). Introduction. Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 68(4):889-913.

  • Edited Scientific Work

    • Edited by: Behr, Wolfgang; Indraccolo, Lisa (2014). Berlin: De Gruyter. Masters of Disguise? Conceptions and Misconceptions of ‘Rhetoric’ in Chinese Antiquity.

• 2013

  • Monograph

    • Gassmann, Robert H; Behr, Wolfgang (2013). Grammatik des Antikchinesischen: Begleitband zu Antikchinesisch - Ein Lehrbuch in zwei Teilen. Bern, Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag.

• 2011

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2011). Zhuangzis Weg: eine Abschweifung. In: Keller, H E. Das Kamel und das Nadelöhr. Eine Begegnung zwischen Zhuangzi und Meister Eckhart. Zürich: vdf Hochschulverlag, 41-59.

  • Monograph

    • Gassmann, Robert H; Behr, Wolfgang (2011). Antikchinesisch - Ein Lehrbuch in zwei Teilen. Bern: Peter Lang AG.

• 2010

  • Journal Article

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2010). Role of Language in Early Chinese Constructions of Ethnic Identity. Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 37(4):567-587.

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2010). In the interstices of representation: ludic writing and the locus of polysemy in the Chinese sign. In: de Voogt, A; Finkel, I. The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity. Leiden: Brill, 281-314.

• 2009

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2009). What’s in a name, again? Über Schall und Rauch in der antikchinesischen Personennamengebung. In: Altenburger, Roland; Lehnert, Martin; Riemenschnitter, Andrea Hong Anrui. Dem Text ein Freund: Erkundungen des chinesischen Altertums: Robert H. Gassmann gewidmet. Bern: Peter Lang, 15-37.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2009). Etymologische Notizen zum Wortfeld "lachen" und "weinen" im Altchinesischen. In: Nitschke, A; et al. Überraschendes Lachen, gefordertes Weinen: Gefühle und Prozesse, Kulturen und Epochen im Vergleich. Wien: Böhlau, 401-446.

• 2008

  • Monograph

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2008). Reimende Bronzeinschriften und die Entstehung der chinesischen Endreimdichtung. Bochum: Projekt Verlag.

• 2007

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2007). Placed into the Right Position - Etymological Notes on tú and Congeners. In: Bray, F; et al. Graphics and text in the production of technical knowledge in China : the warp and the weft. Leiden: Brill, 109-134.

• 2006

  • Journal Article

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2006). Morphological notes on the Old Chinese counterfactual. Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, 30:55-88.
    • Behr, Wolfgang; Roetz, Heiner (2006). Sprache und Denken in China und Japan: Einleitung. Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, 30:5-9.

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2006). Spiegelreflex: Reste einer Wu-Überlieferung der Lieder im Licht einer spät-Han-zeitlichen Bron­ze­inschrift” [Mirror reflex: Remnants of a Wu tradition of the Odes in the light of a Late Han bronze inscription]. In: Stumpfeldt, Hans; Friedrich, Michael; Emmerich, Reinhard; van Ess, Hans. Han-Zeit: Festschrift für Hans Stumpfeldt aus Anlaß seines 65. Geburtstages (Lun Wen, Studi­en zur Geistesgeschichte und Literatur in China). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 333-358.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2006). Homosomatic juxtaposition and the problem of syssemantic (huìyì) characters. In: Bot­té­ro, Françoise; Djamouri, Redouane. Écriture chinoise : données, usages et représentations. Paris: EHESS, 75-114.

• 2005

  • Journal Article

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2005). Three sound-correlated text-structuring devices in pre-Qín philosophical prose. Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, 29:15-33.
    • Behr, Wolfgang; Gentz, Joachim (2005). Komposition und Konnotation: Figuren der Kunstprosa im alten China: Ein­lei­tung. Bo­chumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung, 29:5-13.

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang; Führer, Bernhard (2005). Einführende Notizen zum Lesen mit be­son­derer Berücksichtigung der Früh­zeit [Introductory notes on ‘reading’, with particular consideration of the early period]. In: Führer, Bernhard. Aspekte des Lesens in China in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Bochum: s.n., 1-44.

• 2004

  • Book Section

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2004). The extent of tonal irregularity in pre-qin inscriptional rhyming. In: Yue, Anna O; Ting, Pang-hsin; Hoh, Dah-an. Hànyŭshĭ yánjiū — jìniàn Lĭ Fāngguī xiānshēng băisuì míngdàn lùn­wénjí 漢語史研究—紀念李方桂先生 百歲冥单誕論文集 [Studies in the Hi­story of the Chinese Lan­guage — Memorial Collection on the occasion of Mr. Li Fang-kuei’s 100th birth­ day]. Taipei: Academia Sinica, 111-146.
    • Behr, Wolfgang (2004). Language change in premodern China – notes on its perception and impact on the idea of a ‘con­stant way’. In: Mittag, Achim; Schmidt-Glintzer, Helwig. Ideology and historical criticism. Leiden: s.n., 13-51.

  • Scientific Publication in Electronic Form

    • Behr, Wolfgang (2004). Hinc sunt leones – two ancient Eurasian migratory terms in Chinese revisited (I-II). : IACD.