Recent studies of early Bronze Age human genomes revealed a massive population
expansion by individuals-related to the Yamnaya culture, from the Pontic Caspian steppe …

Tocharian agglutinative case inflexion as well as its single series of voiceless stops, the two
most striking typological deviations from Proto-Indo-European, can be explained through …

Loanword analysis is a unique contribution of historical linguistics to our understanding of
prehistoric cultural interfaces. As language reflects the lives of its speakers, the …

In 2008 one century will be passed after the recognition of inhabitants of Tang's Chinese
Turkestan as speakers of until that time unknown original branch of Indo-European …

One popular linguistic theory states that Tocharian—much like Anatolian—has a special
status among IE languages by having branched off earlier from the common proto-language …

In this article, the value of Tocharian evidence for the Indo-Anatolian and Indo-Uralic
hypotheses is discussed on the basis of three cases studies. It is argued that evidence for …

The single Chinese scroll comprised of manuscripts P 2893 (Paris) and Ch. 00265 (London)
contains the Late Khotanese āyurvedic text conventionally titled Piṇḍaśāstra and so far …

Linguistic Archaeology provides students with an accessible introduction to the field of
linguistic archaeology, both as theoretical framework and methodological toolkit, for …

Tocharian B etswe 'mule'is a newly attested word. It has been identified as a loan from
Iranian* atswa (Common Turkic äšid-, Chuvash ilt-). The Proto-Turkic root* ät₂i 'ear'is …

Although seemingly in agreement in all the other basic numerals, Proto-Anatolian 'four'*
mei̯-(e) u-is incompatible with Core IE* kʷetu̯or-. At the same time, the overall likelihood …