Das Femininum der thematischen Adjektiva im Tocharischen

Autor(en)

Hannes Fellner

Abstrakt

Recently the more intensive study of Tocharian nominal morphology has given rise to a fresh look on gender in Tocharian. Kim (2009) claims that Tocharian even shows more archaic features than the so-called inner-Indo-European (“Brugmannian”) languages in terms of female gender. According to Kim, these features contribute to the arguments that Tocharian was the second language to split off the post-Anatolian Indo-European speech community (see Jasanoff 1988, 2003, Ringe 2000, Ringe et al. 2002).

In this paper some arguments of Kim (2009) will be reviewed and the Tocharian evidence for the feminine will be submitted to closer philological and linguistic scrutiny. It is argued that Tocharian inherited the same gender system as the other “Brugmannian” languages and that there is no need to view Tocharian as more archaic than, e. g., Vedic or Greek, when it comes to feminine gender.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Sprachwissenschaft

Seiten

65-77

Anzahl der Seiten

12

Publikationsdatum

2014

ÖFOS 2012

602054 Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, 602017 Indogermanistik, 602004 Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 602039 Phonologie

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https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/64f2cf42-5700-46b5-aa26-d7e8ee54dda8