Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 21: Volume 21 - Paperback

by Birgit Anette Olsen (Editor), Hannes Fellner (Editor), Michaël Peyrot (Editor)

A diverse and comprehensive treatment of the relationships between ancient Tocharian A and B and other Indo-European languages.

This book offers the most diverse and comprehensive treatment of the relationships between ancient Tocharian A and B and other Indo-European languages. Studying now-extinct languages from the first millennium, early twentieth-century archaeologists discovered previously unknown Tocharian A and Tocharian B writings on Buddhist manuscripts near northwest China. Volumes in the Tocharian and Indo-European Studies series present the authoritative study of these two closely related languages, focusing both on philological and linguistic approaches toward their relationship with other Indo-European languages.

Author Biography

Birgit Anette Olsen is professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. Hannes Fellner is assistant professor of Tocharian and Indo-European linguistics at the University of Vienna. Michaël Peyrot is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leiden. Georges-Jean Pinault is professor of linguistics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.