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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE">Thank you for your helpful thoughts and suggestions regarding my proposal of the MNEA area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE">Thanks to your comments, I was able to revise my draft considerably and just finished writing one. Please find attached in case you are interested.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE">I will keep on elaborating this manuscript through collaborating with my co-authors. Of course, I would appreciate any further comments regarding the draft.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-DE">Ian</span><span lang="en-DE" style="mso-fareast-language:KO"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Gruzdeva, Ekaterina <ekaterina.gruzdeva@helsinki.fi>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 29 March 2020 01:58<br>
<b>To:</b> Joo, Ian <joo@shh.mpg.de>; lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Mainland Northeast Asia (MNEA) as a linguistic area<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In the next issue (2/1, 2020) of the International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics there will be two papers relevant to your question:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">(1) Chingduang Yurayong and Pui Yiu Szeto, Altaicization and De-Altaicization of Japonic and Koreanic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">(2) Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha Janhunen, Notes on Typological Prehistory of Ghilyak.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">With best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ekaterina Gruzdeva<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> on behalf of Joo, Ian <<a href="mailto:joo@shh.mpg.de">joo@shh.mpg.de</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 28, 2020 11:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a> <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] Mainland Northeast Asia (MNEA) as a linguistic area</span>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">I am currently writing a paper proposing Mainland Northeast Asia (MNEA) as a linguistic area, and I would like to know if there are any previous studies that have analyzed this region as a linguistic area.</span><span lang="en-DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">The MNEA area I propose includes northern China, Mongolia, Korea, but not Japan, Sakhalin, and Russian Far East. One feature of this area, which I am currently working on with my colleagues, is that the languages spoken
there colexify `to put’ and `to release’, as shown in the attached map.</span><span lang="en-DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">From Daejeon, South Korea,</span><span lang="en-DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><span lang="EN-US">Ian</span><span lang="en-DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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