The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages 0198804628, 9780198804628

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Detailed Contents
Series Preface
Abbreviations
The Contributors
Romanization Conventions
Introduction
Part I: Sources and Classification
A. Historical Sources and Periodization
1. Historical sources and periodization of the Japonic and Koreanic languages
2. The Altaic languages: Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic
B. Genealogical Classification
3. The classification of the Transeurasian languages
4. The classification of the Japonic languages
5. The classification of the Korean language and its dialects
6. The classification of the Tungusic languages
7. The classification of the Mongolic languages
8. The classification of the Turkic languages
9. A Bayesian approach to the classification of the Turkic languages
C. Typology
10. The typological heritage of the Transeurasian languages
11. Typological profile of the Transeurasian languages from a quantitative perspective
Part II: Individual Structural Overviews
12. Japanese and the mainland dialects
13. Amami and Okinawa, the Northern Ryukyuan languages
14. Miyako, Ishigaki, and Yonaguni, the Southern Ryukyuan languages
15. Korean and the Korean dialects
16. Jejudo Korean
17. Xibe and the Manchuric languages
18. Even and the Northern Tungusic languages
19. Nanai and the Southern Tungusic languages
20. Dagur
21. Khalkha Mongolian
22. Oirat and Kalmyk, the Western Mongolic languages
23. The Northwestern Turkic (Kipchak) languages
24. Turkish and the Southwestern Turkic (Oghuz) languages
25. Uyghur and Uzbek, the Southeastern Turkic languages
26. Sakha and Dolgan, the North Siberian Turkic languages
27. Chuvash and the Bulgharic languages
Part III: Comparative Overviews
A. Phonology
28. A comparative approach to the consonant inventory of the Transeurasian languages
29. A comparative approach to the vowel systems and harmonies in the Transeurasian languages and beyond
B. Morphology
30. A comparative approach to verbal morphology in Transeurasian
31. A comparative approach to nominal morphology in Transeurasian: Case and plurality
32. A comparative approach to the pronominal system in Transeurasian
C. Syntax
33. The nominal group, possessive agreement, and nominal sentences in the Transeurasian languages
34. Verbal categories in the Transeurasian languages
35. Complex constructions in the Transeurasian languages
D. Lexicon and Semantics
36. Basic vocabulary in the Transeurasian languages
37. Numerals in the Transeurasian languages
38. Kinship-term paradigms in the Transeurasian languages
Part IV: Areal versus inherited Connections
39. Contact between genealogically related languages: The case of Old Korean and Old Japanese
40. Form and pattern borrowing across Siberian Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages
41. Transeurasian as a continuum of diffusion
42. Beck-Wichmann-Brown evaluation of lexical comparisons for the Transeurasian proposal
Part V: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Identity of Transeurasian
43. The homelands of the individual Transeurasian proto-languages
44. The Transeurasian homeland: Where, what, and when?
45. Transeurasian unity from a population-genetic perspective
46. Transeurasian unity from an archaelogical perspective
47. Language dispersals and the "Secondary Peoples' Revolution": A historical anthropology of the Transeurasian unity
References
Index

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