The dual in Tocharian
Subtitle: from typology to Auslautgesetz
By: Ronald I. Kim
Series: Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft. Beiheft -- neue Folge, 26; Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft -- n.F., 26.
Publisher: J.H. Röll
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Dettelbach
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9783897545281
Subjects: Tokharian language; Grammar; Dual; Tocharisch; 18.01 Indo-European languages: general
Description: Within the historical phonology of Tocharian, the elucidation of special phonological developments in word-final position, or Auslautgesetze, faces several well-known obstacles. Relatively few inflectional endings in Tocharian have unambiguous Proto-Indo-European sources, and of those, even fewer have a well-understood prehistory; even such a basic set of morphemes as the person-number endings of the present/subjunctive poses a number of as yet unsolved puzzles. The situation is even worse in the noun, where, due to extensive remodeling of the inherited PIE system of nominal inflection and derivation, it is often difficult to identify appropriate comparanda for Tocharian nominal forms and to distinguish the effects of regular sound change from the workings of analogy. Finally, since the Proto- Tocharian nonhigh vowels *-a, *-ë, *-e, *-o were all lost in Tocharian A, only Tocharian B provides evidence for those vowels in word-final position.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-155) and indexes.