The Tocharian Verbal System

The Tocharian Verbal System PDF Author: Melanie Malzahn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004181717
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1092

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Book Description
This book presents a synchronic and diachronic study of the verbal system of the two Tocharian languages together with an index listing attested verbal forms and offering semantic and etymological information. The material is based on philological evaluation and incorporates hitherto unpublished texts.

The Tocharian Verbal System

The Tocharian Verbal System PDF Author: Melanie Malzahn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004181717
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1092

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Book Description
This book presents a synchronic and diachronic study of the verbal system of the two Tocharian languages together with an index listing attested verbal forms and offering semantic and etymological information. The material is based on philological evaluation and incorporates hitherto unpublished texts.

The Tocharian Verbal System

The Tocharian Verbal System PDF Author: Melanie Malzahn
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004188444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1091

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Book Description
This book presents a synchronic and diachronic study of the verbal system of the two Tocharian languages together with an index listing attested verbal forms and offering semantic and etymological information. The material is based on philological evaluation and incorporates hitherto unpublished texts.

The Tocharian Subjunctive

The Tocharian Subjunctive PDF Author: Michaël Peyrot
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900424879X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 942

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As one of the most central categories of the Tocharian verb, the subjunctive is of utmost importance for the reconstruction of the verbal system, the most rewarding domain of Tocharian historical grammar. Michaël Peyrot provides a thorough analysis of the formation of the subjunctive in both Tocharian languages, and establishes its meaning on the basis of a systematic investigation of a wealth of published and unpublished texts. A careful reconstruction of the Proto-Tocharian stage provides a solid base for the comparison with Indo-European and the derivation of the Tocharian subjunctive from the proto-language. With its focus on the wide variety of intricate morphological patterns, The Tocharian Subjunctive is at the same time a study of the whole Tocharian verbal system.

The Tocharian Gender System

The Tocharian Gender System PDF Author: Alessandro Del Tomba
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004532897
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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Book Description
As one of the most debated categories of Tocharian nominal morphology, grammatical gender is in this book investigated from the point of view of Indo-European comparative reconstruction, by applying the methods of historical linguistics, Tocharian philology, and typological linguistics.

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies vol.14

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies vol.14 PDF Author: Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763540665
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Book Description
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) publishes central topics on the two closely related languages Tocharian A and B, attested in Central Asian Buddhist manuscripts 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

Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond

Perfects in Indo-European Languages and Beyond PDF Author: Robert Crellin
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027260907
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Book Description
This volume provides a detailed investigation of perfects from all the branches of the Indo-European language family, in some cases representing the first ever comprehensive description. Thorough philological examinations result in empirically well-founded analyses illustrated with over 940 examples. The unique temporal depth and diatopic breadth of attested Indo-European languages permits the investigation of both TAME (Tense-Aspect-Mood-Evidentiality) systems over time and recurring cycles of change, as well as synchronic patterns of areal distribution and contact phenomena. These possibilities are fully exploited in the volume. Furthermore, the cross-linguistic perspective adopted by many authors, as well as the inclusion of contributions which go beyond the boundaries of the Indo-European family per se, facilitates typological comparison. As such, the volume is intended to serve as a springboard for future research both into the semantics of the perfect in Indo-European itself, and verb systems across the world’s languages.

Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages

Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages PDF Author: John Hewson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027236496
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Book Description
This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in the paradigmatic morphology of the daughter languages. The nineteen chapters cover first the ancient documentation, then those families whose historical data are from a more recent date. The last chapters deal with the systemic evolution of languages that are descended from ancient forbears such as Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and are completed by a chapter on the practical and theoretical conclusions of the work.

Origins of the Greek Verb

Origins of the Greek Verb PDF Author: Andreas Willi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108173837
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Book Description
Situated at the crossroads of comparative philology, classics and general historical linguistics, this study is the first ever attempt to outline in full the developments which led from the remotest recoverable stages of the Indo-European proto-language to the complex verbal system encountered in Homer and other early Greek texts. By combining the methods of comparative and internal reconstruction with a careful examination of large collections of primary data and insights gained from the study of language change and linguistic typology, Andreas Willi uncovers the deeper reasons behind many surface irregularities and offers a new understanding of how categories such as aspect, tense and voice interact. Drawing upon evidence from all major branches of Indo-European, and providing exhaustive critical coverage of scholarly debate on the most controversial issues, this book will be an essential reference tool for anyone seeking orientation in this burgeoning but increasingly fragmented area of linguistic research.

Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages

Tense and Aspect in Indo-European Languages PDF Author: John Hewson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027275971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Book Description
This monograph presents a general picture of the evolution of IE verbal systems within a coherent cognitive framework. The work encompasses all the language families of the IE phylum, from prehistory to present day languages. Inspired by the ideas of Roman Jakobson and Gustave Guillaume the authors relate tense and aspect to underlying cognitive processes, and show that verbal systems have a staged development of time representations (chronogenesis). They view linguistic change as systemic and trace the evolution of the earliest tense systems by (a) aspectual split and (b) aspectual merger from the original aspectual contrasts of PIE, the evidence for such systemic change showing clearly in the paradigmatic morphology of the daughter languages. The nineteen chapters cover first the ancient documentation, then those families whose historical data are from a more recent date. The last chapters deal with the systemic evolution of languages that are descended from ancient forbears such as Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, and are completed by a chapter on the practical and theoretical conclusions of the work.

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies vol.15

Tocharian and Indo-European Studies vol.15 PDF Author: Birgit Anette Olsen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763542021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies is the central publication for the study of two closely related languages, Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Found in many Buddhist manuscripts from central Asia, Tocharian dates back to the second half of the first millennium of the Common Era, though it was not discovered until the twentieth century. Focusing on both philological and linguistic aspects of this language, Tocharian and Indo-European Studies also looks at it in relationship to other Indo-European languages. This issue addresses topics such as the function and origin of the present suffix "-sk," verbal endings, the words for "fear" and "perfume," secular documents, and Tocharian glosses in Sanskrit manuscripts. Birgit Anette Olsen is a researcher and instructor at the University of Copenhagen and author of Derivation and Composition and The Noun in Biblical Armenian. Michaël Peyrot is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna. Georges-Jean Pinault is professor at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Thomas Olander is a researcher and instructor at the University of Copenhagen.