Claus Peter Zoller

Claus Peter Zoller is a linguist and professor of South Asian Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages of the University of Oslo.{{cite web |last1=Zoller |first1=Claus Peter |title=Claus Peter Zoller - Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages |url=https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/south-asia-studies/tenured/clauspe/ |website=University of Oslo |publisher=University of Oslo |accessdate=13 September 2020}} His research interests include Hindi literature and linguistics, the languages of the Western Himalayas (Western Pahari) and northern Pakistan (Dardic), cultural traditions and ethnography{{cite journal |last1=Leavitt |first1=John |title=On the Complexity of Oral Tradition: A reply to Claus Peter Zoller's review essay 'Oral Epic Poetry in the Central Himalayas' |journal=European Bulletin of Himalayan Research |date=2000 |volume=18 |page=58 |url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_18_04.pdf |accessdate=13 September 2020}} of those regions, as well as Romani linguistics. He is known for his work on the documentation of Indus Kohistani and Bangani, and his broader work on the linguistic history of Indo-Aryan languages.

He supports the Inner–Outer hypothesis of the subclassification of Indo-Aryan, a topic which he has studied in {{harvtxt|Zoller|2016}}.

Works

  • {{cite book|title=A Grammar and Dictionary of Indus Kohistani|volume=1: Dictionary|year=2005|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rm9e3tGKnoAC|isbn=9783110179477|last=Zoller|first=Claus Peter|author-mask=1}}
  • {{cite journal|title=Is Bangani a V2 language?|year=2007|journal=European Bulletin of Himalayan Research|volume=31|pages=83–142|last=Zoller|first=Claus Peter|author-mask=1|url=http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ebhr/pdf/EBHR_31.pdf#page=83}}
  • {{cite journal|title=Aspects of the early history of Romani|year=2010|journal=Acta Orientalia|volume=71|pages=243–312|last=Zoller|first=Claus Peter|author-mask=1|url=https://journals.uio.no/actaorientalia/article/view/5352}}
  • {{cite journal|title=Outer and Inner Indo-Aryan, and northern India as an ancient linguistic area|year=2016|journal=Acta Orientalia|volume=77|pages=71–132|last=Zoller|first=Claus Peter|author-mask=1|url=https://journals.uio.no/actaorientalia/article/view/5355}}
  • {{cite book |author-mask=1 |last=Zoller |first=Claus Peter |title=Indo-Aryan and the Linguistic History and Prehistory of North India |publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag |date=2023 |jstor=jj.5274098}}

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