Martine Robbeets
List of John Benjamins publications in which Martine Robbeets is involved.
Titles
Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Walter Bisang
This book is concerned with comparing morphological paradigms between languages in order to establish areal and genealogical relationships. The languages in focus are the Transeurasian languages: Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages. World-eminent experts in diachronic… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 161] 2014. xix, 345 pp.
Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens
This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 132] 2013. xv, 360 pp.
2022 A Bayesian approach to the classification of Tungusic languages Diachronica 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… read more
2017 Chapter 5. The language of the Transeurasian farmers Language 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
2017 Chapter 1. Farming/Language Dispersal: Food for thought Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 1–23 | Chapter
2016 Chapter 9. Insubordination and the establishment of genealogical relationship across Eurasia Insubordination, 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
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 | 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
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 | 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
2014 Chapter 1. When paradigms change Paradigm Change: In the Transeurasian languages and beyond, Robbeets, Martine and Walter Bisang (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Chapter
2013 Chapter 7. Genealogically motivated grammaticalization Shared 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
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 | Chapter