A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM)
The aim of our project “A Comprehensive Edition of
Tocharian Manuscripts” (CEToM) is to provide an integrated corpus of
already published as well as still unpublished Tocharian texts.
While the traditional editions are often lacking translations and
photographs of the manuscripts, in recent years images of many fragments
have been made available online, first on TITUS and later also on IDP.
Likewise, many of the old editions have been digitised, on TITUS and in Gerd Carling's Thesaurus of Tocharian A
(in progress), and new fragments have been edited both on TITUS and on
IDP.
Starting out from these existing editions, both printed and online, our
aim is to provide an edition that is comprehensive, uses a unified
notation, informs on the chronological layer and the script type, and
adds translation, commentary, a systematic metrical analysis, and a
bibliography.
In addition, the texts are analyzed grammatically
and, as far as possible, the morphological characteristics of each word
are determined.
In this way, the text corpus is made accessible for any kind of word or
grammar search. It will be possible, for instance, to search for all
genitive plural forms, or for 2sg. finite verbal forms.
In the Advanced Search function it will also be possible to refine a
search by limiting it to archaic texts, metrical texts, texts from a
certain find spot or genre etc., or a combination of these.
We expect that the combination of an electronic
edition with grammatical information and a sophisticated search function
will not only be useful for linguistic inquiries, but also be of
essential help in the decipherment and identification of problematic
unedited fragments, not the least in the course of our own edition work.
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