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The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965. The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that includes five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. The historical connection between these languages, however, constitutes one of the most debated issues in historical comparative linguistics. In the present book, a team of leading international scholars in the field take a balanced approach to this controversy, integrating different theoretical frameworks, combining both functional and formal linguistics, and showing that genealogical and areal approaches are in fact compatible with one another. The volume is divided into five parts. Part I deals with the historical sources and periodization of the Transeurasian languages and their classification and typology. In Part II, chapters provide individual structural overviews of the Transeurasian languages and the linguistic subgroups that they belong to, while Part III explores Transeurasian phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, and semantics from a comparative perspective. Part IV offers a range of areal and genealogical explanations for the correlations observed in the preceding parts. Finally, Part V combines archaeological, genetic, and anthropological perspectives on the identity of speakers of Transeurasian languages. The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages will be an indispensable resource for specialists in Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages and for anyone with an interest in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics more broadly.

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Author:   Martine Robbeets (Research Group Leader, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena) ,  Alexander Savelyev (Postdoctoral Researcher, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena) ,  Nataliia Hubler (PhD Student, PhD Student, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.80cm , Height: 5.90cm , Length: 28.30cm
Weight:   0.003kg
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9780198804628

ISBN 10:   0198804628
Pages:   976
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Detailed Contents Series Preface List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Romanization Conventions The Contributors Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev: Introduction Part I: Sources and Classification A: Historical Sources and Periodization 1: Marc Miyake: Historical sources and periodization of the Japonic and Koreanic languages 2: Volker Rybatzki: The Altaic languages: Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic B: Genealogical Classification 3: Martine Robbeets: The classification of the Transeurasian languages 4: Elisabeth M. de Boer: The classification of the Japonic languages 5: Kyou-Dong Ahn and Jaehoon Yeon: The classification of the Korean language and its dialects 6: Lindsay J. Whaley and Sofia Oskolskaya: The classification of the Tungusic languages 7: Hans Nugteren: The classification of the Mongolic languages 8: Lars Johanson: The classification of the Turkic languages 9: Alexander Savelyev: A Bayesian approach to the classification of the Turkic languages C: Typology 10: Martine Robbeets: The typological heritage of the Transeurasian languages 11: Nataliia Hübler: Typological profile of the Transeurasian languages from a quantitative perspective Part II: Individual Structural Overviews 12: Masayoshi Shibatani: Japanese and the mainland dialects 13: Yuto Niinaga: Amami and Okinawa, the Northern Ryukyuan languages 14: John R. Bentley: Miyako, Ishigaki, and Yonaguni, the Southern Ryukyuan languages 15: Ho-min Sohn: Korean and the Korean dialects 16: Ubong Shin, Jieun Kiaer, and Jiyoung Shin: Jejudo Korean 17: Taeho Jang: Xibe and the Manchuric languages 18: Brigitte Pakendorf and Natalia Aralova: Even and the Northern Tungusic languages 19: Sofia Oskolskaya: Nanai and the Southern Tungusic languages 20: Yohei Yamada: Dagur 21: Jan-Olof Svantesson: Khalkha Mongolian 22: Ágnes Birtalan: Oirat and Kalmyk, the Western Mongolic languages 23: Éva A. Csató and Lars Johanson: The northwestern Turkic (Kipchak) languages 24: Jaklin Kornfilt: Turkish and the southwestern Turkic (Oghuz) languages 25: Abdurashid Yakup: Uyghur and Uzbek, the southeastern Turkic languages 26: Brigitte Pakendorf and Eugénie Stapert: Sakha and Dolgan, the North Siberian Turkic languages 27: Alexander Savelyev: Chuvash and the Bulgharic languages Part III: Comparative Overviews A: Phonology 28: Allan R. Bomhard: A comparative approach to the consonant inventory of the Transeurasian languages 29: Andrew Joseph, Seongyeon Ko, and John Whitman: A comparative approach to the vowel systems and harmonies in the Transeurasian languages and beyond B: Morphology 30: Martine Robbeets: A comparative approach to verbal morphology in Transeurasian 31: Ilya Gruntov and Olga Mazo: A comparative approach to nominal morphology in Transeurasian: Case and plurality 32: Michal Schwarz, Ondřej Srba, and Václav Blažzek: A comparative approach to the pronominal system in Transeurasian C: Syntax 33: Irina Nevskaya and Lina Amal: The nominal group, possessive agreement, and nominal sentences in the Transeurasian languages 34: Andrej Malchukov and Patryk Czerwinski: Verbal categories in the Transeurasian languages 35: Andrej Malchukov and Patryk Czerwinski: Complex constructions in the Transeurasian languages D: Lexicon and Semantics 36: Martine Robbeets: Basic vocabulary in the Transeurasian languages 37: Václav Blažzek: Numerals in the Transeurasian languages 38: Milan van Berlo: Kinship term paradigms in the Transeurasian languages Part IV: Areal Versus Inherited Connections 39: Alexander T. Francis-Ratte and J. Marshall Unger: Contact between genealogically related languages: the case of Old Korean and Old Japanese 40: Gregory D. S. Anderson: Form and pattern borrowing across Siberian Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages 41: Edward Vajda: Transeurasian as a continuum of diffusion 42: Cecil H. Brown: Beck-Wichmann-Brown evaluation of lexical comparisons for the Transeurasian proposal Part V: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Identity of Transeurasian 43: Martine Robbeets, Juha Janhunen, Alexander Savelyev, and Evgeniya Korovina: The homelands of the individual Transeurasian proto-languages 44: Martine Robbeets: The Transeurasian homeland: Where, what and when? 45: Choongwon Jeong, Chuan-Chao Wang, and Chao Ning: Transeurasian unity from a population genetic perspective 46: Tao Li: Transeurasian unity from an archaeological perspective 47: Mark James Hudson: Language dispersals and the 'Secondary Peoples' Revolution': A historical anthropology of the Transeurasian unity References Index

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The book is surely destined to become a standard reference for any scholar working on some of the areas it covers, whether or not they are interested in the overarching Transeurasian hypothesis. * Linguist List *

Author Information

Martine Robbeets is Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena and Honorary Professor in Transeurasian Linguistics at the University of Mainz. She currently leads the eurasia3angle research project, which explores the dispersal of the Transeurasian languages and is funded by the European Research Council. Her publications include Is Japanese related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic? (Harrassowitz, 2005), Diachrony of Verb Morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian Languages (De Gruyter, 2015), and several edited volumes. Alexander Savelyev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015 and joined the eurasia3angle research project in 2016. He currently works on cultural reconstruction of the Proto-Turkic language and its Transeurasian connections, and on verifying the internal structure of the Turkic language family. His other research interests include historical grammar and dialectology of Chuvash, language contact in the Volga-Kama Basin, and documentation of Siberian Turkic languages.

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