Conference
Tocharian in Progress
- Date
- Tuesday 8 December 2020 - Thursday 10 December 2020
- Location
- Online | Register by e-mailing m.peyrot@hum.leidenuniv.nl
'Tocharian in Progress' is an online conference uniting scholars working on the extinct Tocharian languages from Northwest China. A wide range of methodological approaches is represented, and topics include text edition, palaeography and writing, grammatical analysis, etymology and historical grammar. All attendants are welcome!
TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER 2020
| 9.20 | Michaël PEYROT | OPENING |
| 9.30 | Hannes FELLNER | Itchy wool from the Tarim Basin |
| 10.00 | CHEN Ruixuan, Chams BERNARD |
A Spicy Etymology. On Tocharian B (and A) śāñcapo |
| 10.30 | -COFFEE BREAK- | |
| 11.00 | Federico DRAGONI | On some Khotanese Loanwords in Tocharian |
| 11.30 | Chams BERNARD | On the etymology of Tocharian A and B epe 'or' |
| 12.00 | -LUNCH BREAK- | |
| 13.30 | Gerd CARLING | Gender in Tocharian A and B |
| 14.00 | Alessandro DEL TOMBA | Genus alternans in Tocharian and Khotanese |
| 14.30 | Timothée CHAMOT-ROOKE | Remarks on the indefinite saṃ, caṃ in Tocharian A |
| 15.00 | -TEA BREAK- | |
| 15.30 | Maksim VYZHLAKOV | Specifying the semantics of synonyms in Tocharian A |
| 16.00 | Teigo ONISHI | Clitic doubling in Tocharian A (9.00 Pacific Time) |
| 16.30 | Douglas ADAMS | A Note on the Name of a Tocharian B divinity (9.30 Pacific Time) |
WEDNESDAY 9 DECEMBER
| 9.30 | Stefan NORBRUIS | Tocharian B ləka- ~ pəlka-, A läkā- ~ pälkā- ‘to see, look’ |
| 10.00 | Bernhard KOLLER, Martin BRAUN, Hannes FELLNER |
News and views from Tarim Brāhmī |
| 10.30 | -COFFEE BREAK- | |
| 11.00 | Ilya ITKIN, Anna KURITSYNA |
A new Tocharian B manuscript from Sengim (13.00 Moscow Time) |
| 11.30 | Ilya ITKIN | L’attribution des fragments inédits tokhariens B de la Turfansammlung: revue préliminaire (13.30 Moscow Time) |
| 12.00 | -LUNCH BREAK- | |
| 13.30 | Tao PAN | Philologica Tocharica — deciphering Tocharian words based on Chinese parallel texts |
| 14.00 | Olga LUNDYSHEVA, Sergey MALYSHEV, Ilya ITKIN |
The Tocharian A manuscripts from the Serindian collection (IOM RAS) (16.00 Moscow Time) |
| 14.30 | -TEA BREAK- | |
| 15.15 | Georges-Jean PINAULT | New material extracted from revised Tocharian A texts |
THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER
| 9.30 | CHING Chao-jung, OGIHARA Hirotoshi |
Recent progress on the Brāhmī inscriptions surviving around Ancient Kucha (17.30 Japan Time) |
| 10.00 | Adam CATT, Athanaric HUARD, Yuima INABA |
Exploring the Tocharian Abhidharma Texts: Recent Findings on B 197 and Future Prospects (18.00 Japan Time) |
| 10.30 | -COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11.00 | CHING Chao-jung | Writing cultures around the Tarim Basin — Historical reflections and scientific approaches (19.00 Japan Time) |
| 11.30 | Athanaric HUARD | The development of the Tocharian B adjectives suffixed in -śke/ṣke |
| 12.00 | -LUNCH BREAK- | |
| 13.30 | Ronald KIM | Revisiting the earliest Iranian loanwords in Tocharian |
| 14.00 | Louise FRIIS | The TB agent nouns in -ntsa: An inflectional explanation |
| 14.30 | -TEA BREAK- | |
| 15.00 | Niels SCHOUBBEN | Ongoing lexical research on the so-called Tocharian C substrate in Niya Prakrit and the importance of Bactrian |
| 15.30 | Abel WARRIES | A comparison of the pre-Proto-Tocharian and preProto-Samoyed vowel systems |
| 16.00 | Michaël PEYROT | Possible traces of a locative suffix in Tocharian B |
| 16.30 | -CLOSURE- |