Linguistic Developments along the Silkroad

Hackstein, Olav [Hrsg.] [u.a.]:
Linguistic Developments along the Silkroad : Archaism and Innovation in Tocharian / ed. by Olav Hackstein and Ronald I. Kim. - Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2012. - 227 S. - (Multilingualism and the history of knowledge / ed. by Jens E. Braarvig ; Vol. 2) (Iranische Onomastik ; 12) (Sitzungsberichte / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; 834)
ISBN 978-3-7001-7304-5
EUR 39,80
DDC: 491.994

Beschreibung
After decades of relative neglect, the Tocharian languages are assuming an increasingly prominent role in Indo-European studies. The enormous progress in Tocharian historical phonology and morphology since the 1960s has called into question the longstanding perception of this branch as an aberrant offshoot, of little importance for the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. Recent studies, particularly of the verb but also of the noun, phonology, and lexicon, have uncovered a number of probable archaisms, reflecting an older state of affairs than that reconstructible on the basis of the classical Indo-European languages alone. New progress in Tocharian paleography has also led to a greatly improved understanding of the evolution of Tocharian B, and the stages of the language represented in our surviving documents. The present volume arose from a series of lectures delivered in 2009 on the theme of “Indo-European Languages and Cultures on the Silk Road” at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, together with contributions from other leading names in Tocharian linguistics. The papers included here treat problems of Tocharian grammar which are of direct relevance for the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, and for determining the place of Tocharian among the Indo-European languages. They demonstrate the importance of Tocharian for some of the most intensely discussed problems of contemporary Indo-European linguistics, such as the prehistory of the collective and feminine, nominal derivation and ablaut, or the reconstruction of the verbal system. [Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften]

Herausgeber
OLAV HACKSTEIN, Professor für Historische und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität München. Profile page.
RONALD I. KIM, Visiting professor, Department of Old Germanic Languages, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Polen. Profile page.

Quellen: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; WorldCat
Bildquelle: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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