Robbeets Martine. Diachrony of Verb Morphology: Japanese and the Transeurasian Languages

De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 560 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 291).This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: "Altaic") in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages.