PIE feminine *-eh2 in Tocharian
- Autor(en)
- Hannes Fellner
- Abstrakt
Recently, there have been attempts to challenge the status of PIE *-eh2 as a feminine suffix in Tocharian. It has been claimed that there are virtually no traces of *-eh2 in Tocharian nominal morphology and that the instances of *-eh2 that are found do only reflect the continuants of PIE neuter collectives/abstracts. Based on these assumptions, the Tocharian gender system has been interpreted as preserving a more archaic state than the other non-Anatolian languages. I argue that the Tocharian evidence does not permit such far-reaching claims. Based on the Tocharian gender and agreement system, I show that it inherited PIE *-eh2 as a feminine marker just like the other non-Anatolian languages.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
- Seiten
- 7-21
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 14
- Publikationsdatum
- 2014
- ÖFOS 2012
- 602017 Indogermanistik, 602004 Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 602054 Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, 602039 Phonologie
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/27640350-fd0b-4741-b3fe-758c34104de3