Tocharian and Historical Sociolinguistics: Evidence from a Fragmentary Corpus
The two extinct languages Tocharian A and Tocharian B comprise a small text corpus that consists almost exclusively of fragments. Nevertheless, the corpus shows linguistic variation. This paper will argue that there are three reasons for genuine linguistic variation in the Tocharian corpus: diachron...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2017-0009 |