The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 June 2020
- ISBN 9780198804628
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages976 pages
- Size 283x228x58 mm
- Weight 2704 g
- Language English 256
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Short description:
This volume provides a comprehensive treatment of the Transeurasian languages. It offers detailed structural overviews of individual languages, as well as comparative perspectives and insights from typology, genetics, and anthropology. The book will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in Transeurasian and comparative linguistics.
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Detailed Contents
Series Preface
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Romanization Conventions
The Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Sources and Classification
A: Historical Sources and Periodization
Historical sources and periodization of the Japonic and Koreanic languages
The Altaic languages: Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic
B: Genealogical Classification
The classification of the Transeurasian languages
The classification of the Japonic languages
The classification of the Korean language and its dialects
The classification of the Tungusic languages
The classification of the Mongolic languages
The classification of the Turkic languages
A Bayesian approach to the classification of the Turkic languages
C: Typology
The typological heritage of the Transeurasian languages
Typological profile of the Transeurasian languages from a quantitative perspective
Part II: Individual Structural Overviews
Japanese and the mainland dialects
Amami and Okinawa, the Northern Ryukyuan languages
Miyako, Ishigaki, and Yonaguni, the Southern Ryukyuan languages
Korean and the Korean dialects
Jejudo Korean
Xibe and the Manchuric languages
Even and the Northern Tungusic languages
Nanai and the Southern Tungusic languages
Dagur
Khalkha Mongolian
Oirat and Kalmyk, the Western Mongolic languages
The northwestern Turkic (Kipchak) languages
Turkish and the southwestern Turkic (Oghuz) languages
Uyghur and Uzbek, the southeastern Turkic languages
Sakha and Dolgan, the North Siberian Turkic languages
Chuvash and the Bulgharic languages
Part III: Comparative Overviews
A: Phonology
A comparative approach to the consonant inventory of the Transeurasian languages
A comparative approach to the vowel systems and harmonies in the Transeurasian languages and beyond
B: Morphology
A comparative approach to verbal morphology in Transeurasian
A comparative approach to nominal morphology in Transeurasian: Case and plurality
A comparative approach to the pronominal system in Transeurasian
C: Syntax
The nominal group, possessive agreement, and nominal sentences in the Transeurasian languages
Verbal categories in the Transeurasian languages
Complex constructions in the Transeurasian languages
D: Lexicon and Semantics
Basic vocabulary in the Transeurasian languages
Numerals in the Transeurasian languages
Kinship term paradigms in the Transeurasian languages
Part IV: Areal Versus Inherited Connections
Contact between genealogically related languages: the case of Old Korean and Old Japanese
Form and pattern borrowing across Siberian Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages
Transeurasian as a continuum of diffusion
Beck-Wichmann-Brown evaluation of lexical comparisons for the Transeurasian proposal
Part V: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Identity of Transeurasian
The homelands of the individual Transeurasian proto-languages
The Transeurasian homeland: Where, what and when?
Transeurasian unity from a population genetic perspective
Transeurasian unity from an archaeological perspective
Language dispersals and the 'Secondary Peoples' Revolution': A historical anthropology of the Transeurasian unity
References
Index
The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages
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