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Structural Phylogenetic Signal Fails at Deep Time: A Bayesian Treebank Analysis of the Transeurasian Languages

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Quantitative 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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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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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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Typology of Sinitic (Chinese)

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Sinitic, often referred to simply as ‘Chinese’, is a well-differentiated major branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, further divided into ten commonly recognized groups (Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Hui, Hakka, Yue, Min, and Pinghua), identified mainly on
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Wen Lu
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The causal-noncausal alternation in the Northern Tungusic languages of Russia

, 2022
Languages differ widely in the way they code causal-noncausal alternations, in which a verb event is either presented as happening by itself (the noncausal event) or as being instigated by an external causer (the causal event). Some languages, such as English, tend not to make a morphological distinction; rather, the same form of certain verbs can ...
Aralova, Natalia, Pakendorf, Brigitte
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THE ETHNIC WORLD VIEW REFLECTION IN YAKUT PERSONAL NAMES (basing on the materials of turkologist N.K. Antonov)

Неофилология, 2016
The analysis of Yakut personal names is made to reveal the peculiarities of ethnic world view basing on the works of turkologist Nikolay Klimovich Antonov.
Egor Revolevich Nikolaev
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Control and intermediate scrambling: An investigation of Kazakh relative clauses

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This paper investigates apparent locality violations in Kazakh (Turkic) relative clauses. The empirical starting point of this study is the configuration where the genitive-marked relative clause subject establishes agreement with the noun phrase ...
Eszter Ótott-Kovács
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Pronominal declension in Altaic languages

Linguistica Brunensia, 2015
This article gives a summary of the pronominal declension in the five branches of the Altaic lan-guages (till the present time it was not realized at least in any individual branch), reconstructs pro-nominal declension for the daughter protolanguages ...
Václav Blažek, Michal Schwarz
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Some Details from Eurasian Ethnic History – Altaic Peoples, Chinese Sources and Turania

Migracijske i etničke teme, 2000
In the first part of the paper, the author discusses some details pertaining to the Altaic languages and the location of the Altaic homeland. As to the key question of Altaic theory – i.e.
Emil Heršak
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Tungus-Manchu Etymologies of Hydronyms of the Amur River Basin

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This article focuses on the toponymy of Siberia, presenting a detailed etymological analysis of the Amur River system from the perspective of spatial orientation among the Evenki and related Tungus-Manchu peoples.
Alexander Nikolaevich Varlamov, Julia Alexandrovna Varlamova   +1 more
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