Tocharian and Indo-European Studies
Encyclopedia
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies (TIES) is a scholarly journal on Tocharian
in the Indo-European context
, established in 1987 by the Icelandic linguist Jörundur Hilmarsson. The journal initially appeared in Reykjavík, Iceland, but after Hilmarsson's death in 1992, the Danish linguist Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
became the new executive editor, and the journal is currently based at Museum Tusculanum Press
in Copenhagen. Until 2008 it was based at C.A. Reitzel Publishers Ltd., also in Copenhagen.
Tocharian
Tocharian may refer to:* Tocharians, an ancient people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in Central Asia* Tocharian languages, two Indo-European languages spoken by those people...
in the Indo-European context
Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. Its goal is to amass information about the hypothetical proto-language from which all of these languages are descended, a language dubbed Proto-Indo-European , and its speakers, the...
, established in 1987 by the Icelandic linguist Jörundur Hilmarsson. The journal initially appeared in Reykjavík, Iceland, but after Hilmarsson's death in 1992, the Danish linguist Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Jens Elmegård Rasmussen
Jens Elmegård Rasmussen is associate professor of Indo-European Studies and head of the Roots of Europe research center at the University of Copenhagen. He is an expert on Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages in general, especially morphophonemics, but he has also published articles on...
became the new executive editor, and the journal is currently based at Museum Tusculanum Press
Museum Tusculanum Press
Museum Tusculanum Press is an academic press of the University of Copenhagen for the fields of humanities, social sciences and theology. It was founded in 1975 as a non-profit institution and publishes approximately 60 titles annually. Most of the authors are affiliated with the University of...
in Copenhagen. Until 2008 it was based at C.A. Reitzel Publishers Ltd., also in Copenhagen.
Editors
- Jens Elmegård RasmussenJens Elmegård RasmussenJens Elmegård Rasmussen is associate professor of Indo-European Studies and head of the Roots of Europe research center at the University of Copenhagen. He is an expert on Proto-Indo-European and Indo-European languages in general, especially morphophonemics, but he has also published articles on...
(Copenhagen, executive editor), Georges-Jean PinaultGeorges-Jean PinaultGeorges-Jean Pinault is professor of linguistics à the Ecole pratique des hautes études. He one of the leading experts on Tocharian languages and has published more than two hundred articles on Indo-European linguistics...
(Paris), Klaus T. Schmidt (Saarbrücken), Michaël Peyrot (Leiden, 2009-), Thomas Olander (Copenhagen, assistant editor 2009-). - Jörundur Hilmarsson (Reykjavík, died 1992, founder and former editor-in-chief), Werner WinterWerner WinterWerner Winter was a German U-boat commander in World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...
(Preetz, died 2010), Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (1992-1993 and supervision of the supplementary series 1992-1997), Lambert Isebaert (Louvain/Namur, assistant editor until 2000)
Editorial advisory board (1987-2003)
- Douglas Q. AdamsDouglas Q. AdamsDouglas Q. Adams is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and an Indo-European comparativist. Adams studied at the University of Chicago, taking his PhD in 1972. He is an expert on Tocharian and a contributor on this subject to the Encyclopædia Britannica.He has also co-authored two...
(Moscow, Idaho) - Hreinn Benediktsson (Reykjavík)
- Ronald E. Emmerick (Hamburg)
- Jay JasanoffJay JasanoffJay Harold Jasanoff is an American linguist and Indo-Europeanist, best known for his h₂e-conjugation theory of the Proto-Indo-European verb. He teaches Indo-European linguistics and historical linguistics at Harvard University....
(Harvard) (from 1999) - Xian-lin Ji (until 1997)
- Frederik KortlandtFrederik KortlandtFrederik Herman Henri Kortlandt is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is an expert on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in...
(Leiden) - Fredrik O. Lindeman (Oslo)
- H. Craig MelchertCraig MelchertH. Craig Melchert is a linguist known particularly for his work on the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. He received his B.A. in German from Michigan State University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1977. From 1968 to 1972 he served in the United States Air Force,...
(UCLA) - Donald A. Ringe, Jr.Donald RingeDonald Ringe is an American linguist and Indo-Europeanist.He received Ph.D in linguistics at the Yale University in 1984 under the supervision of the late Warren Cowgill. He taught Classics at Bard College from 1983 to 1985, and since 1985 he has been on the Faculty in Linguistics at the...
(Philadelphia) - Guðrún Þórhallsdóttir (Reykjavík)