Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Symbols List of Tables 1 Introduction 1.1 Tocharian 1.2 Tocharian Grammatical Gender 1.3 Aim 1.4 Structure and Outline of the Book2 The Gender System of Tocharian A Synchronic and Typological Overview 2.1 Grammatical Gender: Methodological and Theoretical Background 2.2 The Gender System of Tocharian 2.3 The Gender Assignment System of Tocharian 2.

4 The Gender System of Proto-Indo-European: State of the Art and Open Questions 2.5 Summary and Conclusions3 Gender in the Inflection of the Noun 3.1 Tocharian Nominal Categories 3.2 Tocharian Noun Declension 3.3 Aim and Structure of the Chapter 3.4 Nouns Denoting Female Entities 3.5 Grammatical Gender and the Development of Inflectional Classes from class vi (nom.pl.

-ñ) 3.6 The Evolution of the PIE Neuter in the Noun Inflection of Tocharian 3.7 Summary and Conclusions4 Gender in the Inflection of the Pronoun and Adjective 4.1 General Aim, Methodology and Structure of the Chapter 4.2 Overview of the Tocharian Pronominal System 4.3 Evolution of the Tocharian Demonstrative Pronouns 4.4 Evolution of the Pronominal Adjective TB allek, TA alak 'other' 4.5 Conclusion 4.

6 Overview of the Tocharian Adjectival System 4.7 Reconstruction of the Proto-Tocharian Adjectival Paradigms 4.8 Evolution of the Gender System: From Proto-Indo-European to Tocharian5 Retrospective and Conclusion 5.1 Synchronic Analysis 5.2 Diachrony of the Masculine 5.3 Diachrony of the Feminine 5.4 Diachrony of the Genus Alternans 5.5 Outlook Bibliography Index Verborum.