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The emergence of ‘Transeurasian’ language families in Northeast Asia as viewed from archaeological evidence [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022 From a linguistic standpoint, Proto-Japonic and Proto-Koreanic are assumed to have split off the Transeurasian languages in southern Manchuria. The linguistic idea that Proto-Japonic came earlier than Proto-Koreanic in the chronological scheme means that
Kazuo Miyamoto
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Bioarchaeological perspective on the expansion of Transeurasian languages in Neolithic Amur River basin [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Owing to the development of sequencing technology, paleogenomics has become an important source of information on human migration and admixture, complementing findings from archaeology and linguistics.
Yinqiu Cui +8 more
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Permutation test applied to lexical reconstructions partially supports the Altaic linguistic macrofamily [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 In this paper, we present the results of our analysis of the 110-item basic wordlists for four reconstructed and one ancient languages, the linguistic ancestors of five language families which are hypothesized to constitute the Altaic (a.k.a ...
Alexei S. Kassian +4 more
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About millets and beans, words and genes [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 In this special collection, we address the origin and dispersal of the Transeurasian languages, i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Martine Robbeets, Chuan-Chao Wang
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Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Archaeolinguistics, a field which combines language reconstruction and archaeology as a source of information on human prehistory, has much to offer to deepen our understanding of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Northeast Asia.
Sarah Nelson +4 more
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Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages
Quaternary environments and humansThe term “Transeurasian” refers to a proposed language family stretching across Europe and northern Asia, which includes five well-established branches: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The complex range of interacting factors that drove
Christian Leipe, Martine Robbeets
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Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages [PDF]
Nature, 2021 Remco Bouckaert +2 more
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Ancient Connections of Sinitic
Languages, 2023 Six main alternative linkage proposals which involve the Sino-Tibetan family, including Sinitic and other language families of the East Asian area (Miao-Yao, Altaic/Transeurasian, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian) are briefly outlined.
David Bradley
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EntropyQuantitative phylogenetics in historical linguistics has relied almost entirely on lexical cognate data. This study asks a different question: how much genealogical signal can be recovered from structural features extracted from annotated corpora, and ...
Wenchao Li, Haitao Liu
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NN and VV Coordinate Compounds
LanguagesBroadly speaking, binominal and biverbal lexical constructions have been studied independently in different research traditions and frameworks. It is true that the two do not necessarily have overlapping areal distributions, but the fundamental question ...
Akiko Nagano, Masaharu Shimada
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