Towards a new comparison of the pre-Proto-Tocharian and pre-Proto-Samoyed vowel systems
Abstract During their migration from the Eastern European steppes to the Tarim Basin, the ancestors of the Tocharians must have come into contact with speakers of different languages, which may have influenced the early Tocharian language. Early Uralic has been identified as possibly having been the...
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crbrillap:10.1163/22125892-bja10022 2023-05-15T18:15:04+02:00 Towards a new comparison of the pre-Proto-Tocharian and pre-Proto-Samoyed vowel systems Warries, Abel Radu 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10022 https://brill.com/view/journals/ieul/10/1/article-p169_9.xml https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/ieul/10/1/article-p169_9.xml unknown Brill https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Indo-European Linguistics volume 10, issue 1, page 169-213 ISSN 2212-5884 2212-5892 Linguistics and Language History Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Communication Language and Linguistics Cultural Studies journal-article 2022 crbrillap https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10022 2023-01-20T07:34:44Z Abstract During their migration from the Eastern European steppes to the Tarim Basin, the ancestors of the Tocharians must have come into contact with speakers of different languages, which may have influenced the early Tocharian language. Early Uralic has been identified as possibly having been the source of such influence, especially in the domain of phonology and nominal morphology. In a 2019 article, Michaël Peyrot focused specifically on pre-Proto-Samoyed influence on Tocharian, proposing among other things a comparison of the vowel systems. I will discuss this comparison and give an alternative interpretation. Three difficulties remained with Peyrot’s comparison regarding details of 1) the relative chronology of Tocharian sound changes, 2) the mechanism of change, and 3) the relative chronology of sound changes in Samoyed. After addressing these problems in more detail, I conclude that a different vowel comparison is possible, so that the hypothesis that pre-Proto-Tocharians were in contact with pre-Proto-Samoyed substrate is still plausible. Article in Journal/Newspaper samoyed* Brill (via Crossref) Indo-European Linguistics 10 1 169 213 |
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Abstract During their migration from the Eastern European steppes to the Tarim Basin, the ancestors of the Tocharians must have come into contact with speakers of different languages, which may have influenced the early Tocharian language. Early Uralic has been identified as possibly having been the source of such influence, especially in the domain of phonology and nominal morphology. In a 2019 article, Michaël Peyrot focused specifically on pre-Proto-Samoyed influence on Tocharian, proposing among other things a comparison of the vowel systems. I will discuss this comparison and give an alternative interpretation. Three difficulties remained with Peyrot’s comparison regarding details of 1) the relative chronology of Tocharian sound changes, 2) the mechanism of change, and 3) the relative chronology of sound changes in Samoyed. After addressing these problems in more detail, I conclude that a different vowel comparison is possible, so that the hypothesis that pre-Proto-Tocharians were in contact with pre-Proto-Samoyed substrate is still plausible. |
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Towards a new comparison of the pre-Proto-Tocharian and pre-Proto-Samoyed vowel systems |
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Towards a new comparison of the pre-Proto-Tocharian and pre-Proto-Samoyed vowel systems |
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Towards a new comparison of the pre-Proto-Tocharian and pre-Proto-Samoyed vowel systems |
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