36.2043, Books: Like Dust on the Silk Road: Bernard (2025)

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Subject: 36.2043, Books: Like Dust on the Silk Road: Bernard (2025)

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Date: 01-Jul-2025
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Like Dust on the Silk Road: Bernard (2025)


Title: Like Dust on the Silk Road
Subtitle: On the Earliest Iranian and BMAC Loanwords in Tocharian
Series Title: Leiden Studies in Indo-European
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Brill
           http://www.brill.com
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/72419

Author(s): Chams Benoît Bernard

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-73252-0 (EUR 145 / USD 157)
E-book ISBN: 978-90-04-73253-7 (open access)
Open Access to PFD: https://brill.com/display/title/72419

Abstract:

"How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?”
are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies.
This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their
way to China, Tocharians were in contact with an Iranian people living
in the south Siberian Steppes, and with a people related to the Oxus
Civilization (BMAC). This Iranian people spoke a specific language,
called here “Old Steppe Iranian”. They gave Tocharians many words,
such as mañiye ‘servant’, etswe ‘burden-carrying horse’ or ‘mule’,
pāke ‘portion, share’. The BMAC-related people gave the Tocharians
other words such as etre ‘hero’ and kercapo ‘donkey’. This book
reconstructs features of the language of both these peoples, and
examines how they influenced the Tocharians. Based on the latest
archaeological findings, it also suggests a reconstruction of the
chronology and the way the Tocharians followed before entering the
Tarim Basin.
Winner of the 2nd prize for the best dissertation of the
Indogermanische Gesellschaft prize for the best Indo-European studies
dissertation.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Indo-European
                      Tokharian

Written In: English (eng)



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