Mongolian
Juha A. Janhunen
[London Oriental and African Language Library, 19] 2012. xv, 320 pp.
Juha A. Janhunen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Juha A. Janhunen plays a role.
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Subjects Altaic languages | Theoretical linguistics
2025 The Amuric language family: Why so exotic? Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and diachronic perspectives, Salaberri, Iker, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia and Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), pp. 48–70 | Chapter
This paper deals with the areal and typological position of the Amuric language family, often classified as an isolate, but actually comprising two distinct dialectal complexes known as Nivkh and Nighvng. The Amuric varieties are spoken in the Amur-Sakhalin region of the Russian Far East and… read more
2022 Drastic demographic events triggered the Uralic spread Diachronica 39:4, pp. 490–524 | Article
The widespread Uralic family offers several advantages for tracing prehistory: a firm absolute chronological anchor point in an ancient contact episode with well-dated Indo-Iranian; other points of intersection or diagnostic non-intersection with early Indo-European (the Late… read more
2014 Chapter 14. Ural-Altaic: The Polygenetic Origins of Nominal Morphology
in the Transeurasian Zone Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 311–336 | Chapter
The paper reviews the data concerning the nominal inflectional morphology in the chain of languages comprising Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic, collectively termed “Ural-Altaic”. Although nominal morphology has traditionally been quoted in support of the hypothesis… read more
2013 Chapter 9. Personal pronouns in Core Altaic Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages, Robbeets, Martine and Hubert Cuyckens (eds.), pp. 211–226 | Chapter
It is a well-established fact that several Eurasian languages and language families show conspicuous formal similarities in their systems of personal pronouns. These similarities have been cited in support of a common genetic origin of all the languages concerned, but they have also been explained… read more
2012 On the hierarchy of structural convergence in the Amdo Sprachbund Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations: A crosslinguistic typology, Suihkonen, Pirkko, Bernard Comrie and Valery Solovyev (eds.), pp. 177–190 | Article
The languages of the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderzone form an areal union of the Sprachbund type, in which all participants have been approaching a common goal of structural uniformity. There are, however, differences as to how the goal of uniformity has been achieved in each given… read more
2008 Some Old World experience of linguistic dating In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, Bengtson, John D. (ed.), pp. 223–239 | Article
This paper addresses the problem concerning linguistic depth and its measurement on the basis of empirical knowledge from selected Eurasian language families and areal complexes, including Indo-European, Ural-Altaic, and Palaeo-Siberian. There are clear differences between language families and… read more