Martine Robbeets | |
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| Born | Martine Irma Robbeets (1972-10-24)24 October 1972 (age 53) |
| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Alma mater | Leiden University |
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| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History andUniversity of Mainz |
| Main interests | Historical linguistics |
| Notable ideas | Transeurasian languages hypothesis |
Martine Irma Robbeets (24 October 1972) is a Belgiancomparative linguist andJapanologist. She is known for theTranseurasian languages hypothesis, which groups theJaponic,Koreanic,Tungusic,Mongolic, andTurkic languages together into a singlelanguage family.
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.
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 History inJena, Germany.[2]
In 2017, Robbeets proposed that Japanese (and possibly Korean) originated as ahybrid language. She proposed that theancestral home of the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages was somewhere in northwesternManchuria. A group of those proto-Altaic ("Transeurasian") speakers would have migrated south into the modernLiaoning province, 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-Japanese andproto-Korean.[3][4]
In 2018, Robbeets and Bouckaert usedBayesian phylolinguistic methods to argue for the coherence of the Altaic languages, which they refer to as theTranseurasian languages.[5]
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