Robbeets Martine. Is Japanese related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?

Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. — 965 p. — (Turcologica, v. 64).The present work is an attempt to gather and evaluate the etymologies that have been proposed in the past relating Japanese to Korean and Altaic. The cover term Altaic will be used in reference to the Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic languages. It refers to a group of North-East Asian languages that share a number of phonological, morphological and structural similarities without neccessarily presupposing that these similarities are due to common ancestorship. The etymologies proposed so far in order to relate Japanese to Korean and Altaic are listed in the etymological index of Japanese in the appendix of this book. The etymological index is keyed into the first part of this work, referring to the page numbers on which each Japanese entry along with its etymological proposal(s) is evaluated. In the index I cite lexical and morphological data that are suggested by various authors, respecting the originally chosen romanization and pitch conventions of the author in question. Usually, when citing an author or an etymology in the textual part of this work, reference is made to the covering etymological index. Otherwise additional reference is made in the footnotes. In the textual part of this book I will use the following transliteration conventions.