Martine I. Robbeets: Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic? (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2005)
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Review |
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| Citation | BLAŽEK, Václav. Martine I. Robbeets: Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic? (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2005). Philologia Fenno-Ugrica et Indoeuropaea. 2012, Neuveden, No 18, p. 93-95. ISSN 0943-9471. |
| Description | The review evaluates the almost 1000-paged monograph, which itself is a detailed review of „Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages“ (ed. by S. Starostin et alii; Leiden: Brill 2003). The author formulated strict criteria, leading to the reduction of convincing entries of c. 80%. But the remaining |