Linguistic Reconstruction and Historical Ecology in the North Pacific Rim

Prof. Dr. habil Martine Robbeets is the head of the Language and the Anthropocene Research Group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena and Honorary Professor of General and Comparative linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. She holds a PhD in Comparative Linguistics from the University of Leiden and a Habilitation in Linguistic Typology from the University of Mainz. She wrote several monographs and edited various volumes, among which Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Linguistics on “the Transeurasian Languages”, “The Oxford Guide to Transeurasian Languages” and “The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language”.Martijn Knapen is a doctoral researcher in the Language and the Anthropocene research group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena. He holds an MA in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities from the University of Helsinki. He is a linguist specializing in three Indigenous linguistic lineages of Northeast Asia: Nivkh (or Amuric), Tungusic and Ainu. His ongoing research focuses on the interactions of their speakers among themselves and their interrelations with their local landscapes and seascapes.

• Linguistic Reconstruction and Historical Ecology: An Introduction Part I. Landscape transformation Chapter 1. Language, Species, and Culture: Reflections from Historical Ecology Chapter 2. The Vocabulary of Reindeer Herding in Dolgan within the Context of Dolgan -Evenki Contact Chapter 3. Northern Pacific Rim Substratum Interference in Japonic, Koreanic and Tungusic Part II. Landscape stratigraphy Chapter 4. New Linguistic Evidence for the Northern Origin of the Southern Dene/Athabaskan Languages Chapter 5. Ecological Lexical Borrowings between Japano-Koreanic and Sinitic on the Southern Edge of the North Pacific Rim Chapter 6. Paleoecology, Biogeographic Adaptation and the Development of Proto-Aleut and Dene during the Neoglacial and Later Periods Chapter 7. The role of climate change in Mid-Holocene migrations and language spreads from Asia into North America Chapter 8. Ecological Vocabulary in Bella Coola: Evidence for Old Trade and Migration Routes, Lexical Copying and Diffusion in the Pacific Northwest Part III. Traditional ecological knowledge Chapter 9. Ethnobotany on Sakhalin: The History and Structure of Nivkh, Uilta and Ainu Taxonyms and Taxonomies Chapter 10. Ethnolinguistic Aspects of Birch Trees in Tungusic and Beyond Chapter 11. Yukaghir ‘Mammoth’ in North Siberian Contexts