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Linguistics, 2023 A distinction between inalienable and alienable possession is considered to be crosslinguistically common. For the Tungusic languages, it is generally illustrated with examples that contrast inherently possessed body parts with body parts belonging to a ...
Aralova Natalia, Pakendorf Brigitte
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Genomic Insights Into the Admixture History of Mongolic- and Tungusic-Speaking Populations From Southwestern East Asia [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 As a major part of the modern Trans-Eurasian or Altaic language family, most of the Mongolic and Tungusic languages were mainly spoken in northern China, Mongolia, and southern Siberia, but some were also found in southern China. Previous genetic surveys
Jing Chen +17 more
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Even and the Northern Tungusic languages [PDF]
The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages, 2020 This chapter provides a concise structural overview of the three Northern Tungusic languages spoken in the Russian Federation, namely Even, Evenki, and Negidal.
B. Pakendorf, N. Aralova
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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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The homeland of Proto-Tungusic inferred from contemporary words and ancient genomes [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 The Tungusic languages form a language family spoken in Xinjiang, Siberia, Manchuria and the Russian Far East. There is a general consensus that these languages are genealogically related and descend from a common ancestral language, conventionally ...
Chuan-Chao Wang, Martine Robbeets
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Phylogenetic signal and rate of evolutionary change in language structures [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Within linguistics, there is an ongoing debate about whether some language structures remain stable over time, which structures these are and whether they can be used to uncover the relationships between languages.
Nataliia Hübler
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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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, 2023 Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It encompasses approximately twenty languages located in Siberia and northern China.
Hölzl, Andreas, Payne, Thomas E.
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The Inter-Comparison of Manchu-Tungusic Languages [PDF]
Lecture Notes on Language and Literature, 2019 Manchu-Tungusic Languages, also called Tungusic Languages, refer to the languages spoken by Tungusic nations in East Siberia and Manchuria. Most languages in this language family belong to agglutinative languages. The typical word order is subject-object-
Qing-fa Chen
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Comparative in Tungusic languages
Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of SiberiaThe morphological marking of adjectival comparatives, although prevalent in European languages, is a crosslinguistically uncommon feature. Grammaticalization processes in comparative markers represent a typologically underexplored field of study. Similar
V.Ju. Gusev, N. Aralova
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