Indology

Rainer Kimmig, M.A.

Rainer Kimmig ist Lehrbeauftragter an der Abteilung für Indologie des Asien-Orient-Instituts (AOI) der Universität Tübingen.

Research Focus

Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Historical Syntax of Indo-Aryan Languages and Literary Translation.

Presentations at International Conferences

Jul 2012 International Conference of Indian Languages and Literatures 10 (ICOSAL 10, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 5.–7. July 2012) Secondary Imperfectives in Hindi-Urdu 

Nov 2012 Three-day Birth Centenary International Seminar on Saadat Hasan Manto. 15, 16, 17 November 2012, Sahitya Akademi Auditorium, New Delhi Saʿādat Ḥasan Manṭo kā fan: ek jarman mutarjim kī naz̤ar se. In Urdu

Jan 2014 International Conference on South Asian Languages and Literatures 11 (ICOSAL 11). 23‐25 January 2014, BHU, Varanasi‐India Interlocutionary Mode and Story Mode as Basic Contrast in the Tense System of Literary Hindi-Urdu

Feb 2014 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA). Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, 6th–8th February 2014 Verb-Verb Sequences in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan. A preliminary survey

May 2015 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA). Lancaster University, 14th–16th May 2015 Aspectual Classes and the Semantics of the Hindi-Urdu Verb

Apr 2016 32nd South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA). University of Lisbon, Portugal, April 27th – 29th 2016 Recurrent Replacement of the Narrative Past by a Present Perfect Tense in the History of Indo-Aryan Presentation

May 2017 33rd South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA). University of Poznań, Poland, May 15th – 17th, 2017 Resultative Constructions in Hindi-Urdu and Other Indo-Aryan Languages Synchronic and diachronic perspectives

Sep 2017 33. Deutscher Orientalistentag Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 18.– 22. September 2017 Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition und Intuition. Abhinavaguptas programmatische Strophen zu seiner hermeneutischen Position

Jun 2018 34th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA). University of Konstanz, Germany, June 19th – 21th 2018 Hindi-Urdu Compound Verbs and Russian Aspect. The Evidence of Translations

Nov 2022 36th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (Sala). Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, November, 26–29, 2022 Relative Clauses in Indo-Aryan. Perspectives on Diachronic Pragmatics

Jan 2024 11th International Conference on Emerging Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities. Amity School of Languages, Amity University, Lucknow. निर्मल वर्मा एक जर्मन पाठक और अनुवादक की दृष्‍टिकोण से (Nirmal Varmā ek jarman pāṭhak aur anuvādak kī dr̥ṣṭikoṇ se). In Hindi Watch it here