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- Title
Interrogative stems in Hittite and Tocharian.
- Authors
Peyrot, Michaël
- Abstract
Hittite and Tocharian share an interrogative pronominal stem in m- next to the well known Proto-Indo-European interrogative *kwi, *kwe-, *kwo. In Tocharian, the m-interrogative is especially frequent as a formative element in several interrogative, relative and indefinite stems. In this paper, these stems are investigated in detail, and it is argued that the Tocharian A interrogative stem ā-posited by Sieg, Siegling & Schulze in their Tocharische Grammatik is a ghost. Although the reconstruction of the m-interrogative for the oldest stage of Proto-Indo-European is beyond any doubt, it is difficult to use this Anatolian-Tocharian isogloss as an argument for the phylogenetic structure of the Indo-European family tree since in the other branches the m-interrogative may have been lost independently.
- Subjects
INTERROGATIVE (Grammar); HITTITE language; TOKHARIAN language; PRONOUNS (Grammar); NOMINALS (Grammar)
- Publication
Indogermanische Forschungen: Zeitschrift für Indogermanistik und allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, 2018, Vol 123, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
0019-7262
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/if-2018-0003