Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Symbols -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Tocharian -- 1.2 Tocharian Grammatical Gender -- 1.3 Aim -- 1.4 Structure and Outline of the Book -- 2 The Gender System of Tocharian -- A Synchronic and Typological Overview -- 2.1 Grammatical Gender: Methodological and Theoretical Background -- 2.2 The Gender System of Tocharian -- 2.3 The Gender Assignment System of Tocharian -- 2.4 The Gender System of Proto-Indo-European: State of the Art and Open Questions -- 2.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 3 Gender in the Inflection of the Noun -- 3.1 Tocharian Nominal Categories -- 3.2 Tocharian Noun Declension -- 3.3 Aim and Structure of the Chapter -- 3.4 Nouns Denoting Female Entities -- 3.5 Grammatical Gender and the Development of Inflectional Classes from class vi (nom.pl. -ñ) -- 3.6 The Evolution of the PIE Neuter in the Noun Inflection of Tocharian -- 3.7 Summary and Conclusions -- 4 Gender in the Inflection of the Pronoun and Adjective -- 4.1 General Aim, Methodology and Structure of the Chapter -- 4.2 Overview of the Tocharian Pronominal System -- 4.3 Evolution of the Tocharian Demonstrative Pronouns -- 4.4 Evolution of the Pronominal Adjective TB allek, TA ālak ‘other’ -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 4.6 Overview of the Tocharian Adjectival System -- 4.7 Reconstruction of the Proto-Tocharian Adjectival Paradigms -- 4.8 Evolution of the Gender System: From Proto-Indo-European to Tocharian -- 5 Retrospective and Conclusion -- 5.1 Synchronic Analysis -- 5.2 Diachrony of the Masculine -- 5.3 Diachrony of the Feminine -- 5.4 Diachrony of the Genus Alternans -- 5.5 Outlook -- Bibliography -- Index Verborum.

This book investigates archaisms and innovations in Tocharian nominal morphology: it provides a comprehensive treatment of the morphology of Tocharian grammatical gender, describing how it historically derived from the Indo-European proto-language and why it typologically deviates from most of the other Indo-European languages. The approach is both synchronic and diachronic, with a heavier focus on diachrony. The volume features a thorough study of a large number of nominal classes and pronominal forms, which are analysed from a derivational and an inflectional point of view in order to clarify their origin and development from the perspective of Indo-European comparative reconstruction. With its wide coverage of intricate phonological and morphological patterns, The Tocharian Gender System is an important contribution to the study of Tocharian nominal morphology as a whole.

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