Conference | Workshop
Tocharian and Iranian in the Tarim Basin and beyond
- Date
- Thursday 23 June 2022 - Friday 24 June 2022
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 147
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 |
| 14.45-15.30 | Chams Bernard | Features of Old Steppe Iranian |