Martine Robbeets
Martine Robbeets | |
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| Born | Martine Irma Robbeets 24 October 1972 |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Alma mater | Leiden University |
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| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human HistoryandUniversity of Mainz |
| Main interests | Historical linguistics |
| Notable ideas | Transeurasian languageshypothesis |
Martine Irma Robbeets(24 October 1972) is a Belgiancomparative linguistandjapanologist.She is known for theTranseurasian languageshypothesis, which groups theJaponic,Koreanic,Tungusic,Mongolic,andTurkiclanguages together into a singlelanguage family.
Education
[edit]Robbeets received a Ph.D. in Comparative Linguistics fromLeiden University,and also received a master's degree in Korean studies fromLeiden University.She also holds a master's degree in Japanese studies fromKU Leuven.
Career and research
[edit]In addition to being a lecturer at theUniversity of Mainz,she is also a group leader at theMax Planck Institute for the Science of Human HistoryinJena,Germany.[2]
In 2017, Robbeets proposed that Japanese (and possibly Korean) originated as ahybrid language.She proposed that theancestral homeof the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages was somewhere in northwesternManchuria.A group of those proto-Altaic ( "Transeurasian" ) speakers would have migrated south into the modernLiaoningprovince, where they would have been mostly assimilated by an agricultural community with anAustronesian-like language. The fusion of the two languages would have resulted inproto-Japaneseandproto-Korean.[3][4]
In 2018, Robbeets and Bouckaert usedBayesian phylolinguistic methodsto argue for the coherence of the Altaic languages, which they refer to as theTranseurasian languages.[5]
Selected works
[edit]- Robbeets, M.; Savelyev, A.:Language dispersal beyond farming.John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam (2017)
- Robbeets, M.:Diachrony of verb morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian languages.de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin (2015)
- Robbeets, M.; Bisang, W. (eds.):Paradigm change: in the Transeurasian languages and beyond.Benjamins, Amsterdam (2014)
- Robbeets, M.:Is Japanese related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (2005)
References
[edit]- ^CV Martine Robbeets 2021uni-mainz.de
- ^"Language in the anthropocene".Retrieved26 February2024.
- ^Martine Irma Robbeets (2017): "Austronesian influence and Transeurasian ancestry in Japanese: A case of farming/language dispersal".Language Dynamics and Change,volume 7, issue 2, pages 201–251,doi:10.1163/22105832-00702005
- ^Martine Irma Robbeets (2015):Diachrony of verb morphology – Japanese and the Transeurasian languages.Mouton de Gruyter.
- ^Robbeets, M.; Bouckaert, R.:Bayesian phylolinguistics reveals the internal structure of the Transeurasian family.Journal of Language Evolution3 (2), pp. 145 - 162 (2018)doi:10.1093/jole/lzy007,Robbeets, Martine et al. 2021. Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages, Nature 599, 616–621.
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