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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-verb. And they show complex systems of vowel harmony.
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Are Mongolian and Tungus genetically related? [PDF]

, 2010
It is no secret that Gerhard Doerfer has argued strongly against a genetic relationship between the Mongolic and Tungusic languages. Ten years ago he presented a detailed analysis of the Mongolo-Tungusic vocabulary (1985).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Indo-Uralic and Altaic [PDF]

, 2010
Elsewhere I have argued that the Indo-European verbal system can be understood in terms of its Indo-Uralic origins because the reconstructed Indo-European endings can be derived from combinations of Indo-Uralic morphemes by a series of well-motivated ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages

Quaternary Environments and Humans
The 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
Martine Robbeets, Christian Leipe
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On the expression of TAM on nouns: evidence from Tundra Nenets [PDF]

, 2015
The paper aims to enrich the database of independent time-related morphology on nouns and contribute to the discussion of its categorization by examining the so-called predestinative forms in Tundra Nenets (Uralic).
Ackerman, Ackerman, Agouraki, Aikhenvald, Alexiadou, Arregui, Avrorin, Barker, Bresnan, Burton, Comrie, Croft, Croft, Daniel, Darlymple, Demirdache, Diesing, Dobrovie-Sorin, Enç, Enç, Enç, Enç, Erteschik-Shir, Evans, Farkas, Farkas, Gennari, Giannakidou, Giannakidou, Giannakidou, Goussev, Grosu, Haude, Helimskij, Higginbotham, Hornstein, Iatridou, Irina Nikolaeva, Israel, Izvorski, Kathol, Khanina, Kroeker, Laczkó, Ladusaw, Lambrecht, Landman, Larson, Larson, Lecarme, Lecarme, Lecarme, Lecarme, Lecarme, Lehmann, Leisiö, Ludlow, Malchukov, Malchukov, Malouf, Matthewson, Matthewson, Moltmann, Musan, Musan, Nedjalkov, Nikolaeva, Nikolaeva, Nikolaeva, Nikolaeva, Nordlinger, Nordlinger, Ogihara, Palmer, Palmer, Partee, Partee, Partee, Partee, Pereltsvaig, Pesetsky, Portner, Portner, Poudel, Quer, Quer, Quer, Raible, Saeed, Salminen, Siegl, Spencer, Szabolcsi, Tereshchenko, Tereshchenko, Tonhauser, Tonhauser, Tonhauser, Tonhauser, van Geenhoven, van Geenhoven, von Heusinger, von Heusinger, Wiltschko, Zimmermann   +104 more
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Comments on Allan Bomhard, “The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian substrate hypothesis” [PDF]

, 2019
The main claims of Bomhard's paper are that PIE originated in Central Asia, which accounts for its Eurasiatic properties such as resemblant pronouns (Uralic, IE, Kartvelian, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic) and originally agglutinating morphology; then it ...
Nichols, J
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Comparative in Tungusic languages

Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia
The 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 to other linguistic areas, the majority of Siberian languages lack morphological comparative ...
V.Ju. Gusev, N.B. Aralova
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N morphology and its interpretation : the neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implications [PDF]

, 2015
We characterize Romance inflectional class morphology in Nouns as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about its active involvement at the syntaxsemantic interface.
Franco, Ludovico, Manzini, M. Rita, Savoia, Leonardo M.   +2 more
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