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Martine Robbeets & Alexander Savelyev (editors), “Transeurasian Languages”, 2020.

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Here I present: Martine Robbeets & Alexander Savelyev (editor), “Transeurasian Languages”, 2020.

PRELUDE.

If you asked anyone about the Japanese language fifty (50) years ago, the reply was “Japanese is a language isolate”.

 

That was then, today both the Korean-and-Japanese languages are known to be connected to Altaic languages (Turkic, Mongolic & Tungusic).

INTRODUCTION.

The Transeurasian language family is one of the most widely distributed language families of the modern world, and one school of thought says that it encompasses the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic language groups (Tungusic languages are spoken in northeastern China and  Siberia.

A triangulation of linguistic, archaeological and genetic data suggests that the Transeurasian language family originated in a population of grain farmers in China around 9,000 years ago, and that agriculture underpinned its spread.

Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev, “Transeurasian Languages”, 2020 is a book about this new term “transeurasian languages”.  The “table of contents” is shown BELOW.

 TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Introduction 1.

Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev

 PART I: Sources and Classification 5.

  1. Historical Sources and Periodization.
  2. Historical sources and periodization of the Japonic and Koreanic languages 9.

Marc Miyake

  1. The Altaic languages: Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic 22.

Volker Rybatzki

  1. Genealogical Classification
  2. The classification of the Transeurasian languages 31.

Martine Robbeets

  1. The classification of the Japonic languages 40.

 Elisabeth de Boer

  1. The classification of the Korean language and its dialects 59.

 Kyou-Dong Ahnand and Jaehoon Yeon

  1. The classification of the Tungusic languages 81.

 Lindsay J. Whaley and Sofia Oskolskaya

  1. The classification of the Mongolic languages 92.

 Hans Nugteren

  1. The classification of the Turkic languages 105.

 Lars Johanson

  1. A Bayesian approach to the classification of the Turkic languages 115.

Alexander Savelyev

C. Typology

  1. The typological heritage of the Transeurasian languages 127.

Martine Robbeets

  1. Was Typological profile of the Transeurasian languages from a quantitative perspective 145.

PART II: Individual Structural Overviews 161.

  1. Japanese and the mainland dialects 163.

 Masayoshi Shibatani

  1. Amami and Okinawa, the Northern Ryukyuan languages 196.

 Yuto Niinaga

  1. Miyako, Ishigaki, and Yonaguni, the Southern Ryūkyūan languages 225.

John R. Bentley

  1. Korean and the Korean dialects 241.

Ho-Mi n Sohn

  1. Jejudo Korean 258.

 Ubong Sh i n, Ji e u n Ki a e r, a n d Ji your ng Sh i n

  1. Xibe and the Manchuric languages 269.

 Taeho Jang

  1. Even and the Northern Tungusic languages 288.

Brigitte Pakendorf and Natalia Aralov

  1. Nanai and the Southern Tungusic languages 305.

 Sofia Oskolskaya

  1. Dagur 321.

 Yohei Yamada

  1. Khalkha Mongolian 334.

Jan-Ol of Svantesson

  1. Oirat and Kalmyk, the Western Mongolic languages 350.

 Ágnes Birtalan

  1. The Northwestern Turkic (Kipchak) languages 370.

 Éva Á. Csató and Lars Johanson

  1. Turkish and the Southwestern Turkic (Oghuz) languages 392.

 Jaklin Kornfilt

  1. Uyghur and Uzbek, the Southeastern Turkic languages 411.

 Abdurishid Yakup

  1. Sakha and Dolgan, the North Siberian Turkic languages 430.

Brigitte Pakendorf and Eugénie Stapert

  1. Chuvash and the Bulgharic languages 446.

Alexander Savelyev

PART III: Comparative Overviews 465.

  1. Phonology
  2. A comparative approach to the consonant inventory of the Transeurasian languages 469.

 Allan R. Bomhar

  1. A comparative approach to the vowel systems and harmonies in the Transeurasian languages and beyond 486.

 Andrew Joseph, Seongyeon Ko, and John Whitman

  1. Morphology
  2. A comparative approach to verbal morphology in Transeurasian 511.

 Martine Robbeets

  1. A comparative approach to nominal morphology in Transeurasian: Case and plurality 522.

 Ilya Gruntov and Olga Mazo

  1. A comparative approach to the pronominal system in Transeurasian 554.

Michal Schwarz, Ondřej Srba, and Václav Blažek

C. Syntax

  1. The nominal group, possessive agreement, and nominal sentences in the Transeurasian languages 587.
  2. Irina Nevskaya and Lina Amal
  3. Verbal categories in the Transeurasian languages 604.

Andrej Malchukov and Patryk Czerwinski

  1. Complex constructions in the Transeurasian languages 625.

Andrej Malchukov and Patryk Czerwinski

  1. Lexicon and Semantics
  2. Basic vocabulary in the Transeurasian languages 645.

 Martine Robbeets

  1. Numerals’ in the Transeurasian languages 660.

 Václav Blažek

  1. Kinship-term paradigms in the Transeurasian languages 691.

Milanvan Berlo  

 

PART IV: Areal versus Inherited Connections 703.

  1. Contact’ between genealogically related languages: The case of Old Korean and Old Japanese 705.

 Alexander T. Francis-Ratteand J. Marshall Unger

  1. Form and pattern borrowing across Siberian Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages 715.

Gregory D. S. Anderson

  1. Transeurasian as a continuum of diffusion

726

 Edward Vajda

  1. Beck-Wichmann-Brown evaluation of lexical comparisons for the Transeurasian proposal 735. Cecil H. Brown

PART V: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Identity of Transeurasian 751.

  1. The homelands of the individual Transeurasian proto-languages 753.

Martine Robbeets, Juha Janhunen, Alexander Sav e ly e v, and Evgeniya Korovina

  1. The Transeurasian homeland: Where, what, and when? 772.

 Martine Robbeets

  1. Transeurasian unity from a population-genetic perspective 784.

Choongwon Jeong, Chuan-Chao Wang, and Chao Ning

  1. Transeurasian unity from an archaeological perspective 794.

 Tao Li

  1. Language dispersals and the “Secondary Peoples’ Revolution”: A historical anthropology of the Transeurasian unity 806.

 Mark James Hudson

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