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Lectures & conferences
A. Del Tomba, “Buddhist elements in the Khotanese Rāmāvadāna”, October 10, 2024, Soka University of Japan (International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology).
A. Del Tomba, “On the relationship between the manuscripts of the Khotanese Siddhasāra: Linguistic and historical data”, Kyoto Symposium of Silk Road Studies — from India to China via Turfan –, October 4-7, 2024, Kyoto University.
A. Del Tomba, “Palaeographic and phonetic remarks on rr and r in Khotanese”. Language and culture in the borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road, September 3-6, 2024, Wien Universität – Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
A. Del Tomba, “Prospettive (socio)linguistiche del corpus khotanese”, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, April 22-23, 2024, Università degli Studi di Pisa.
A. Del Tomba, “Filologia e contesto storico-linguistico in Asia Centrale: il caso della tradizione manoscritta di un testo di medicina in khotanese” (Invited), Conference “Curatori di memorie: il lavoro del filologo”, May 26, 2025, Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Sapienza Università di Roma.
A. Del Tomba [with S. Luzzietti], “From Khotanese to Sanskrit and back: Towards a reedition and linguistic analysis of the Jīvakapustaka.”, Tenth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL 10), January 13–15, 2025, University of Tuscia.
A. Del Tomba, “How many gender values? The case of Tarim Basin languages” (Invited), Conference “Gender in Grammar. Theory, History, and Policy”, February 13–14, 2025, Sapienza University of Rome.
A. Del Tomba, “Introduction to the historical grammar of Khotanese”. Summer School of Indo-European languages: Middle Indic and Middle Iranian, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, August 24–29, 2025. Fourlesson class: Cultural introduction, palaeography and orthography, historical phonology and morphology.
A. Del Tomba, “Khotanese allography and the origin of rr within the framework of Central Asian Brāhmī” (Invited), April 28–29, 2025, Conference LSS 6 “Sprachwissenschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte von Schriftsystemen” / “Linguistic and cultural aspects of script systems”, Centre CNRS de la Vieille Perrotine, Saint-Pierre d’Oléron.
A. Del Tomba, “The Jīvakapustaka: Manuscript transmission, new methodology, and linguistic analysis” (Plenary lecture, Invited). Peking University, Beijing, September 18, 2025.
A. Del Tomba, “The origin of Late Khotanese metrics”. Beyond the Mountains. Ancient Languages in and around the Tarim Basin, Peking University, Beijing, September 20–21, 2025.
A. Del Tomba – M. Fattori, “Unveiling Late Khotanese metre”, 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag DOT 2025, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, September 08–12, 2025.
A. Del Tomba, A lost verbal stem in Khotanese: the prehistory of*jsīn- ‘to kill’ and its nominal derivatives, International Workshop PRIN 2022: Non-finite verbal forms in ancient Indo-European languages (Siena, 5-6 febbraio 2026).
This paper investigates the etymology and morphology of the Khotanese verb meaning ‘to kill’, traditionally associated with the stem jsan-,…