Despite its location in present-day Northwest China, the Tarim Basin was in the first millennium of the Common Era home to Indo-European languages: Tocharian, and the Iranian languages Khotanese and Tumšuqese. In the NWO funded project Tracking the Tocharians from Europe to China: a linguistic reconstruction, linguistic interaction between Tocharian and its Iranian neighbours has been studied in order to elucidate the prehistory of Tocharian. In this conference, which closes our research project, we unite scholars working on the philology and historical grammar of the languages of the Tarim Basin and beyond, with a special focus on language contact.
Registration
No registration is needed for in-person attendance. Those wishing to attend online are kindly requested to register by e-mail at f.dragoni@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Programme
Thursday, 23-06-2022
Time
Speaker
Topic
09.00-09.45
Michaël Peyrot
Tracking the Tocharians: results and outlook
09.45-10.30
Federico Dragoni
New perspectives on language contact between Khotanese and Tocharian
10.30-11.00
Coffee
11.00-11.45
Ogihara Hirotoshi and Ching Chao-jung
An attempt to elucidate Tumshuqese secular documents [online]
11.45-12.30
Dieter Maue
Konow's sign no.3 [online]
12.30-14.00
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Nicholas Sims-Williams
Metre and stress in Old Khotanese
14.45-15.30
Zhan Zhang
Slave purchase contracts in Tocharian, Khotanese and beyond
15.30-16.00
Coffee
16.00-16.45
Georges-Jean Pinault
The Buddhist Iranian component in Tocharian [online]
16.45-17.30
Athanaric Huard
New findings on the Tocharian body part lexicon
Friday, 24-06-2022
Time
Speaker
Topic
09.00-09.45
Niels Schoubben
Niya Prakrit kilme(ci) '(belonging to the) household': a Bactrian alternative to Burrow's derivation from the so-called “Tocharian C”
09.45-10.30
Benedikt Peschl
Devatā dvandvas in Middle Iranian onomastics and the Bactrian personal name Mihrāman
10.30-11.00
Coffee
11.00-11.45
Samira Müller
Prying into Tocharian terminology from the Chinese perspective
11.45-12.30
Sasha Lubotsky
Horse colors in Indo-Iranian and beyond
12.30-14.00
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Sampsa Holopainen
Notes on Alanic and steppe Iranian loanwords in Hungarian, Ob-Ugric and Permic