Romani A Linguistic Introduction

Name: Romani A Linguistic Introduction
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ISBN: 9780521023306

ISBN-10: 0521023300

ISBN-13: 9780521023306

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Authors: Yaron Matras

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Romani is a language of Indo-Aryan origin which is spoken in Europe by the people known as Gypsies (who usually refer to themselves as Rom). There are upwards of 3.5 million speakers, and their language has attracted increasing interest both from scholars and from policy-makers in governments and other organizations during the past ten years. This book is the first comprehensive overview in English of Romani. It provides a historical linguistic introduction to the structures of Romani and its dialects, as well as surveying the phonology, morphology, syntactic typology and patterns of grammatical borrowing in the language. This book provides an essential reference for anyone interested in…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester and editor of the journal"Romani Studies".




Introduction



Romani dialects: a brief overview



Historical and linguistic origins



Descriptive phonology



Nominal forms and categories



Verb morphology



Syntactic typology



Grammatical borrowing



Dialect classification



Romani sociolinguistics



Language planning and codification