The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages Hardcover - 2020

Martine Robbeets is Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena and Honorary Professor in Transeurasian Linguistics at the University of Mainz. She currently leads the eurasia3angle research project, which explores the dispersal of the Transeurasian languages and is funded by the European Research Council. Her publications include Is Japanese related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic? (Harrassowitz, 2005), Diachrony of Verb Morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian Languages (De Gruyter, 2015), and several edited volumes.

Alexander Savelyev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015 and joined the eurasia3angle research project in 2016. He currently works on cultural reconstruction of the Proto-Turkic language and its Transeurasian connections, and on verifying the internal structure of the Turkic language family. His other research interests include historical grammar and dialectology of Chuvash, language contact in the Volga-Kama Basin, and documentation of Siberian Turkic languages.