Blažek Václav, Schwarz Michal. The Early Indo-Europeans in Central Asia and China (Cultural relations as reflected in language)

Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft, 2016. — 355 p. — ISBN 978-3-85124-240-9.The monograph investigates the earliest traces of the Indo-Europeans in Central Asia and China.Tocharian and Chinese mutual relations, as reflected in lexicon, in a wider Indo-European perspective:
Tocharian loanwords in Chinese. Chinese loanwords in Tocharian. Borrowings from third party languages. Uncertain and problematic Tocharian-Chinese comparisons. Non-Chinese glosses, probably of Indo-European origin, in Chinese texts. Indo-European - Chinese parallels without Tocharian data.
Tocharian and Iranian designations of metals in the light of etymology:
Tocharian names of metals. Iranian names of metals.
Traces of Indo-European place-names in the toponymy of Central Asia:
Basins of the Aral Sea and Lake Balkhash. Tarim Basin. Central Asiatic oronyms.
On internal and external classification of Tocharian and Iranian:
Position of the Tocharian and Indo-Iranian within the Indo-European language family. On separation of Tocharian A and B in perspective of chronology. On classification of the Iranian languages. Results of glottochronological classification in correlation with archaeological data. Iranian wordlists.
Abbreviations of authors and languages cited in wordlists
Appendices 1 - 6