Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
[Not in series, 215] 2017. xiii, 324 pp.
Martine Robbeets
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martine Robbeets plays a role.
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Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Evolution of language | Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Walter Bisang
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 161] 2014. xix, 345 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax
Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 132] 2013. xv, 360 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022. A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages. Diachronica 39:1, pp. 128–158
The Tungusic language family is comprised of languages spoken in Siberia, the Russian Far East, Northeast China and Xinjiang. There is a general consensus that these languages are genealogically related and descend from a common ancestral language. Nevertheless, there is considerable disagreement… read more | Article
2017. Chapter 5. The language of the Transeurasian farmers. Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 93–121
The Farming Language Dispersal Hypothesis makes the radical and controversial claim that many of the world’s major language families owe their present-day distribution to the adoption of agriculture by their early speakers. Especially for regions such as Northern Asia, where farming is only… read more | Chapter
2017. Chapter 1. Farming/Language Dispersal: Food for thought. Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 1–23
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2016. Chapter 9. Insubordination and the establishment of genealogical relationship across Eurasia. Insubordination, Evans, Nicholas and Honoré Watanabe (eds.), pp. 209–246
In this chapter, I investigate how our understanding of insubordination can add to the establishment of genealogical relationship between languages. The particular case that I deal with here is the longstanding affiliation question of the Transeurasian languages. The term “Transeurasian” refers to… read more | Article
2014. The development of negation in the Transeurasian languages. On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), pp. 401–420
In this article, the historical development of sentential negation is compared across the Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages to make inferences about the expression of negation in the common Transeurasian proto-language. Integrating typological considerations, including… read more | Article
2014. Chapter 9. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a Transeurasian perspective. Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 197–232
Although the genealogical relationship between Japanese and the Transeurasian languages has been a source of contention for nearly two centuries, scholars seem to agree that paradigmatic morphology could substantially help to prove relatedness. Starting from this consensus, this contribution… read more | Chapter
2014. Chapter 1. When paradigms change. Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 1–20
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2013. Chapter 7. Genealogically motivated grammaticalization. Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 147–176
The present contribution suggests how grammaticalization theory may contribute to establishing remote linguistic relationships, more particularly to distinguishing genealogical residue from the effects of areal influence, universal factors and coincidence. The five different types of shared… read more | Chapter
2013. Chapter 1. Towards a typology of shared grammaticalization. Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 1–20
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