Martine Robbeets

List of John Benjamins publications for which Martine Robbeets plays a role.

Titles

Language Dispersal Beyond Farming

Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev

[Not in series, 215] 2017. xiii, 324 pp.
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

Oskolskaya, Sofia, Ezequiel Koile and Martine Robbeets 2022 A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languagesDiachronica 39:1, pp. 128–158 | Article
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
Robbeets, Martine 2017 Chapter 5. The language of the Transeurasian farmersLanguage Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 93–121 | Chapter
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
Robbeets, Martine 2017 Chapter 1. Farming/Language Dispersal: Food for thoughtLanguage Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
Robbeets, Martine 2016 Chapter 9. Insubordination and the establishment of genealogical relationship across EurasiaInsubordination, Evans, Nicholas and Honoré Watanabe (eds.), pp. 209–246 | Article
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
Robbeets, Martine 2014 The development of negation in the Transeurasian languagesOn Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia, Suihkonen, Pirkko and Lindsay J. Whaley (eds.), pp. 401–420 | Article
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
Robbeets, Martine 2014 Chapter 9. The Japanese inflectional paradigm in a Transeurasian perspectiveParadigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 197–232 | Chapter
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
Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang 2014 Chapter 1. When paradigms changeParadigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
Robbeets, Martine 2013 Chapter 7. Genealogically motivated grammaticalizationShared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 147–176 | Chapter
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
Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens 2013 Chapter 1. Towards a typology of shared grammaticalizationShared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter