Yaron Matras

Romani

A Linguistic Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2002 book is the first overview in English of the structure, history, typology and dialects of Romani.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780521631655
• ISBN-10: 0521631653
• Artikelnr.: 35453696

Autorenporträt

Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the interface of linguistic typology, discourse pragmatics and language processing and language change, as well as multilingualism and dialects. He has published widely on the linguistics of Romani and on language contact. His books include Language Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Romani dialects: a brief overview
3. Historical and linguistic origins
4. Descriptive phonology
5. Nominal forms and categories
6. Verb morphology
7. Syntactic typology
8. Grammatical borrowing
9. Dialect classification
10. Romani sociolinguistics
11. Language planning and codification.