The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages
Published on 30. June 2020
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Hardback
976 pages
978-0-19-880462-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
Comprising nearly 50 entries, this volume covers diverse features of these languages relevant for understanding their intertwined histories. It draws together specialists representing multiple areas of expertise from within and outside linguistics. Rather than supporting one definitive conclusion, the contributors offer differing opinions on whether some or all of these languages are genealogically related. ... The meticulous phonological and grammatical descriptions of individual languages or families are superb. * E. J. Vajda, CHOICE * 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 *More details
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English
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Oxford
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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.
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.
Content
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 Huebler: 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: Agnes Birtalan: Oirat and Kalmyk, the Western Mongolic languages
23: Eva A. Csato 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 Eugenie 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, Ondrej Srba, and Vaclav Blazzek: 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: Vaclav Blazzek: 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
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 Huebler: 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: Agnes Birtalan: Oirat and Kalmyk, the Western Mongolic languages
23: Eva A. Csato 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 Eugenie 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, Ondrej Srba, and Vaclav Blazzek: 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: Vaclav Blazzek: 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