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A comparative approach to the consonant inventory of the Transeurasian languages

2020
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the consonant inventories of the Transeurasian languages from a comparative perspective. The chapter begins with a discussion of the reconstruction of the consonant inventory of Proto-Transeurasian, the hypothetical proto-language from which the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic languages are ...
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Chapter 6. Scalar additive operators in Transeurasian languages

Studies in Language Companion Series, 2013
This article provides a survey of scalar additive operators such as Turkish bile, Japanese sae, Korean cocha ‘even’, etc. and related expressions in a sample of thirteen Transeurasian languages. The data is presented and interpreted against the background of evidence from European languages and with the question of shared grammaticalization in mind. It
Johan Van Der Auwera, Volker Gast, Van Der Auwera Johan   +2 more
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Verb sequences and Transeurasian languages:

2020
Verb sequences - or multi-verb constructions-in their various guises are a promi­nent feature of many Transeurasian languages, spanning Turkic, Mongolic, Tungus­ic, Japonic, and Koreanic families (as defined by Robbeets, this volume, and Johan­son & Robbeets 2009). The status of verb sequences varies.
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Kinship-term paradigms in the Transeurasian languages

2020
All languages have kinship-term paradigms that vary both formally and semantically. This chapter aims to give an overview of the kinship-term paradigms in the Transeurasian languages, focusing on the semantics of sibling terminology and with special reference to Old Japanese.
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A comparative approach to the vowel systems and harmonies in the Transeurasian languages and beyond

2020
In this chapter the standard treatments of the Transeurasian vowel correspondences are reviewed, including their reconstructions of hypothetical proto-inventories, for the purpose of establishing a description of the Transeurasian vowel inventory and vowel harmony type.
Andrew Joseph, Seongyeon Ko, John Whitman   +2 more
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Common denominal verbalizers in the Transeurasian languages: borrowed or inherited?

2015
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The nominal group, possessive agreement, and nominal sentences in the Transeurasian languages

2020
This chapter deals with some of the most salient syntactic features of nominal groups and nominal sentences in Transeurasian languages; e.g. agreement in person and number between the heads and the modifiers expressed by adjectives, numerals, and demonstrative pronouns within nominal groups; formal and semantic properties of the “possessive noun + noun”
Irina Nevskaya, Lina Amal
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21. Shared verb morphology in the Transeurasian languages: copy or cognate? [PDF]

, 2012
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REVIEW The origin and spread of Transeurasian languages: An interdisciplinary study supports the view that Transeurasian languages arose in northeastern China about 9,000 years ago.

2022
This is a review of the paper in Science “Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages”
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Major issues on the Liaoxi origin of the Transeurasian languages

The East Asian Ancient Studies, 2022
Wu-soon Jang, Chi-ung Moon
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