An Attempt at a Selected and Annotated Bibliography of Tocharian-Turkic Language Contacts, Part I

Authors : Hakan Aydemir

Pages : 1-53

Doi:10.46614/ijous.1494493

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Publication Date : 2024-06-30

Article Type : Other

Abstract :Tocharian-Turkic language and ethnic relations have many unknown aspects and many problems awaiting solutions. One of the fundamental questions about Tocharian-Turkic language contacts is undoubtedly when and where these contacts began and how long they lasted. This problem has long intrigued scholars. As Sarah G. Thomason (2001) also remarks, there are “two crucial historical questions about language contact situations - how they come about in the first place, and how long they last.” And as she notes, “even partial answers to these questions will be useful for orientation and predicting the future of current contact situations with some degree of confidence.” Therefore, even the partial answers we provide to the problem of Tocharian-Turkic language contacts will make significant contributions to its resolution. Thus, this bibliographic essay serves this purpose. In this first part, the study tries to summarize and describe the significant problems related to the question in the studies listed below and explain what each study is about. The study attempts to evaluate the data included in them, such as lexical correspondences, reconstructions, hypotheses, proofs, and their strengths and weaknesses. However, in this study, not all the studies listed below were evaluated, but only some of them for now. The rest will be evaluated in detail in the next parts of this article series.
Keywords : Toharca, Eski Türkçe, alıntı sözcükler, dil ilişkisi, tarihsel dilbilim, açıklamalı kaynakça