The Tocharian Verbal System
Biographical note
Melanie Malzahn, Dr. phil. (2001) in Linguistics, University of Vienna, is currently APART fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and lectures at the University of Vienna. She has published mainly on PIE morphology, Vedic, and Tocharian, including the edition of Instrumenta Tocharica (Carl Winter, 2007).
Readership
All those interested in Indo-European studies, the languages of Central Asia, verbal morphology, especially valency change, notably linguists and philologists of IE and Central Asian languages.
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