Ebook: The position of Tocharian among the other Indo-Europeran languages

Статья // Journal of American Oriental Society. — 1984. — Vol. 104 — Pp. 395–402.The placement of Tocharian vis-a-vis the other Indo-European groups has been something of a problem; those who have investigated the issue over the past seventy-five years have, on the basis of very limited evidence, come to a variety of conclusions. An investigation here of the phonological, morphological, and lexical isoglosses (and especially the latter) uniting Tocharian with other Indo-European language families leads to the grouping of Tocharian with Meillet’s Northwestern group in the first instance, with particularly close ties with Germanic. The ties Tocharian has with both Greek and Indie outside of the Northwestern group reflect later contacts on the part of the pre-Tocharians with the pre-Greeks and pre-Indies as the pre-Tocharians moved progressively eastward in the late Proto-Indo-European world.