[Lingtyp] Mainland Northeast Asia (MNEA) as a linguistic area

[Joo, Ian]

Dear Marcel,

I would like to know more about the Turkic languages. I did check on some Turkic languages, but the only one I found to really colexify the two meanings seems to be Tuvan (which is also spoken in MNEA). In other Turkic languages, such as Uighur, Kazakh, Uzbek, and Turkish, it seems to be qoy- for putting and sal- or boshat- for releasing, and that Turkic languages generally make lexical distinction of these two, although they sometimes do semantically overlap. But since I have little knowledge about Turkic languages, I would love to hear more ideas on this.

Regards,
Ian

From: Marcel Erdal <merdal4 at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, 28 March 2020 19:04
To: Joo, Ian <joo at shh.mpg.de>
Cc: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Mainland Northeast Asia (MNEA) as a linguistic area

Turkic languages also use the same verb for 'to put' and 'to leave', qoy- in some of them, sal- in others.
Marcel Erdal

Am Sa., 28. März 2020 um 10:39 Uhr schrieb Joo, Ian <joo at shh.mpg.de<mailto:joo at shh.mpg.de>>:
Dear all,

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.
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.

From Daejeon, South Korea,
Ian
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