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The Tocharian Verbal System (Bk's Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics): 3
Author(s): Melanie Malzahn (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 1 May 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 1092 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004181717
- ISBN-13: 9789004181717
Book Description
This book presents a synchronic and diachronic study of all verbal classes and categories of the
Tocharian branch of Indo-European. It lists all attested Tocharian verbal forms, together with
semantic and etymological information. The material has been subject to careful philological
evaluation and incorporates unedited or unpublished texts of the Berlin, London, and Paris
collections. In addition, this study consistently takes into account the linguistic variation within the Tocharian B language and the relative chronology of texts. Moreover, Tocharian offers crucial evidence for the reconstruction of the PIE verbal system, and is also of interest to the general linguist for the interaction of voice and valency.
Tocharian branch of Indo-European. It lists all attested Tocharian verbal forms, together with
semantic and etymological information. The material has been subject to careful philological
evaluation and incorporates unedited or unpublished texts of the Berlin, London, and Paris
collections. In addition, this study consistently takes into account the linguistic variation within the Tocharian B language and the relative chronology of texts. Moreover, Tocharian offers crucial evidence for the reconstruction of the PIE verbal system, and is also of interest to the general linguist for the interaction of voice and valency.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Тем не менее нет никаких сомнений, что этот фундаментальный труд представляет собой по- истине бесценный Instrumentum Tocharicum – из тех, что верой и правдой служат исследова- телям не годы, а долгие десятилетия.” Ilja Itkin, Voprosy jazykoznanija (2012), no. 2, pp. 130-137.
About the Author
Melanie Malzahn, Dr. phil. (2001) in Linguistics, University of Vienna, is currently APART fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and lectures at the University of Vienna. She has published mainly on PIE morphology, Vedic, and Tocharian, including the edition of Instrumenta Tocharica (Carl Winter, 2007).
