Bücher von Birgit Anette Olsen

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

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 Tocharian in relationship to other Indo-European languages.Contents of volume 17: Douglas Q. Adams, "Tocharian B arkañ yet again" 1; Adam A. Catt, "Tocharian B ly(¿¿ )ptsentar: A new class VIII present" 11; Ching Chao-jung ¿¿¿, "On the names of cereals in Tocharian B " 29; Ilya B. Itkin, "The tender ghost: Tocharian B lalä¿e 'tender' : Tocharian A ?" 65; Bernhard Koller, "Vir¿a spelling and Tocharian A prosody" 77; Dieter Maue, "Tumschukische Miszellen / Miscellanea Tumšcica IV" 109; Ogihara Hirotoshi ¿¿¿¿, "Remarks on fragment B431 of the Berlin Turfan collection" 133; Michaël Peyrot, "Further Sanskrit-Tocharian bilingual Ud¿avarga fragments" 153; Georges-Jean Pinault, "Glossary of the Tocharian B Petrovsky Buddhastotra" 213; Douglas Q. Adams, "Review of Markus Hartmann, Das Genussystem des Tocharischen" 249