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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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*