Tocharian Historical Phonology and Morphology

ablaut accusative singular active actual added addition adjectives analogical aorist appears attested become Class consonant corresponding derived discussion distinction dual earlier early enclitic ending etymological evidence example expected explain extended feminine final formation forms gave genitive give given Greek imperative Indo-European inherited initial Krause languages laryngeal late later Latin least loss masculine meaning middle morphological n-stems neuter nominative singular non-neuter normally nouns obstruents optative original palatalization paradigm participle particularly perfect person singular phonological plural possible present preterite probably pronoun Proto Proto-Indo-European Proto-Tocharian PTch reconstructed reflect reflexes regular remains represented resonant result root Sanskrit second person secondary seen shown shows similar stem stressed subjunctive suffix suggests syllable Table thematic third person Thomas thou tive Tochar Tocharian unstressed usual verbal verbs vowel Watkins weak Windekens Winter