Carling, Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen

[Gillian Caglayan]

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New publication from Mouton de Gruyter!!!


Gerd Carling
Die Funktionen der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen

2000. 23 x 15,5 cm. xxii, 442 pages.
Cloth. DM 178,- /EUR 91,01 /öS 1299,- /sFr 158,- /approx. US$ 89.00
ISBN 3-11-016827-8


This volume, written in German, deals with the use of the local cases in
Tocharian A and Tocharian B, Indo-European languages of the Tarim Basin,
Eastern Central Asia, of the 6th - 9th centuries AD. Tocharian differs
typologically from most of the other Indo-European languages in that it
is basically inflectional-agglutinative. This tendency is dominant in
the case system: generally, local relations are expressed by local cases
alone, and adpositional phrases are used only in order to express more
specific local relations.

The study concentrates on the local cases expressing location and
direction (i.e. oblique, allative, perlative, and locative) in the
following contexts:
- case constructions expressing concrete or abstract local relations
- case constructions expressing temporal relations
- adpositional constructions expressing local and temporal relations.

The uses of the local cases with various reference objects is presented.
A theoretical discussion of the nature of the respective local cases and
a reconstruction of a possible evolution of the function of the cases
from Proto-Tocharian to Tocharian A and Tocharian B concludes this
study.

Locality in Tocharian is a field in which almost no research has been
carried out, and in this sense this study fills a slot within the field
of Indo-European syntax.

This book is of special interest to historical and comparative
linguists, especially those working with Indo-European languages, to
general linguists interested in localism and specialists in Central
Asian languages.



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