His work on Modern and Classical Persian literature began with then current structuralist approaches and turned to the inclusion of modern literary theories. Didactically, it includes the production of an innovative three-level textbook series of Modern Persian (1979-1982). Areally, it includes the dynamics of Turkic-Iranian linguistic symbiosis. Theoretically, his work includes the development of a general three-dimensional model for the comparative mapping of the dynamics of aspect-mood-tense systems (first 1986). Professor Windfuhr’s linguistic work on Persian as well as Iranian linguistics, including dialectology and diachrony, is framed by two milestones in the field: the first descriptive and analytical survey of the linguistic study of Persian (1979), and most recently the edition of the comprehensive synchronic analyses and descriptions of Old, Middle and New Iranian languages, the first to include the complex syntax of these languages (2009). Most unexpected is the recognition that the cosmic vision of the Iranian Gāthās matches that of early Greek philosophy and science, in particular Pythagorean and Platonic, but also includes calendrical patterns datable to the early Christian era which suggests multiple layers of adjustments to advances in scientific knowledge, including the knowledge of planets and planetary conjunctions. In doing so, each WORD and WORD SET accompanying the ritual action is marked both for its specific frequency, its NUMBER, and for its relative POSITION along the time-line of the textual NET-WORK, as the words are “spun” and interwoven, in the process of building up the cycle of the most complex, yet ordered dynamic cosmic coordinate systems that culminate in the Coda. Fundamentally, conceptual pairings and distributional patterns of terms suggest that the composer of the Gāthās presented, and through them taught, the TRUTH of the WORLD to be re-created anew daily. This study highlights the patterns of complex parameters in the Gāthās, defining their pervasive numerology.
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