Tocharian and Indo-European Studies Volume 14

Established in 1987, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) is an international scholarly journal with contributions in English (primarily), German and French. The journal's central topic is formed by the two closely related languages Tocharian A and B, attested in Central Asian Buddhist manu-scripts dating from the second half of the first millennium AD. It focuses on philological and linguistic aspects of Tocharian, and its relation with the other Indo-European languages. Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is an international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of two closely related Indo-European languages, Tocharian A and B, attested in Central Asian manuscripts from the second half of the first millennium AD. This volume contains 11 articles by some of the world's leading specialists on Tocharian, as well as reviews of the most important publications in the field. The important article by Werner Winter was one of the last to be written by this outstanding scholar. Contents in Vol. 14: The editors, "In memoriam Jens Elmegård Rasmussen"; Douglas Q. Adams, "More thoughts on Tocharian B prosody"; Timothy G. Barnes, "The etymology and derivation of TB saswe 'lord' and ñakte (: A ñkät)'god'" Ching Chao-Jung, "Reanalyzing the Kuchean-Prākrit tablets THT4059, THT4062 and SI P/141 55"; Frederik Kortlandt, "The development of the Tocharian vowel system"; Melanie Malzahn, "Of demons and women − TB yakṣa- and oppositional feminine forms in Tocharian"; Fanny Meunier, "Typologie des locutions en yām- du tokharien"; Ogihara Hirotoshi, "Tocharian Vinaya texts in the Paris collection"; Michaël Peyrot, "Review of Melanie Malzahn, The Tocharian Verbal System".

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