Das Partizipium Prateriti Im Tocharischen (Book Review‪)‬

Das Partizipium Prateriti im Tocharischen. By HARUYUKI SAITO. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ, 2006. Pp. xii + 626. [euro]98. This monograph contains the first detailed investigation of the preterite participles (PPs) in both Tocharian languages, their semantics as well as their formal history and development from Proto-Indo-European (PIE). After an introductory chapter, in which Saito discusses the main problems and foreshadows his conclusions, chapters 2-7 examine the PPs corresponding to each of the six Tocharian preterite classes, in the standard classification of Krause and Thomas (TE I:237-54). These findings are summarized in chapter eight (SchluBfolgerungen), and chapter nine (Zusammenfassung) recapitulates and offers answers to the questions posed in the first chapter. A bibliography and indices of text passages, forms, and Tocharian verb roots close out the book.