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Variation and change in Tocharian B.
PEYROT, Michaël
Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2008, 262 pp.
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Leiden Studies in Indo-European 15
“P[eyrot]’s study has greatly expanded our understanding both of the nature of variation within the TB documents and of the relation between the spoken and written languages over a time span of several centuries, far longer than previously assumed. … it is noteworthy that the chronology arrived at by P is consistent with the known political and cultural history of the Tarim Basin. … P’s book is an excellent example of corpus research on an extinct language, one where our ignorance of individual writers’ identities and much of the external history forces us to reconstruct a plausible picture of synchronic and diachronic variation on the basis of the texts themselves.”
LANGUAGE, Volume 85, Number 2 (2009)
Variation and change in Tocharian B is a systematic and extensive treatment of linguistic variants attested in this most archaic of the two Tocharian languages, which are known through manuscripts from the first millennium CE found along the Northern Silk Road in Xinjiang, China. The precise nature of the variants in Tocharian B has been the issue of a long debate. A careful survey of all variants from a wealth of published and unpublished texts shows that most of the variation is due to chronological development. Lists of text classification criteria and overviews of text types make this volume an ideal handbook for the study of the Tocharian lexicon, grammar, and manuscripts. It is of interest for scholars and students of Tocharian and Indo-European alike, and it will be both practical and indispensable for checking variants and their relative chronology.
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Citation codes
Introduction
Aim
Method
Variant forms
Interpretation
Conclusion
Maps
Appendices
References
Index of Tocharian B word forms
Michaël Peyrot’s research focuses on the philology and synchronic linguistics of Tocharian, as well as the prehistory of the Tocharian languages, from both an Indo-European and a language contact perspective. He studied comparative Indo-European linguistics and Tocharian in Leiden and Paris, and edited a large number of Tocharian manuscripts for the International Dunhuang Project of the British Library. He is a contributor of the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, and currently carries out research on the Tocharian subjunctive.
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