Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language: 126 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027236291 ISBN 13: 9789027236296

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1995

Synopsis

A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology. Approaching the language via its ever-surfacing character as a language in contact, the volume gives expression to part of the wide range or research represented in today's field of Romani linguistics. Contributions focus on problems in typological change and structural borrowing, lexical borrowing and lexcial reconstruction, the Iranian influence on the language, interdialectal interference, language mixing, Romani influences on slang and argot, grammatical categories in discourse, standardization and literacy in a multilingual community, and plagiarism of data in older sources. The authors discuss dialects spoken in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Serbia, Macedonia, Germany, Poland, and Romania, as well as related varieties in Spain and the Middle East.

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Review

[...] stimulating reading in the exciting field of Romani contact linguistics. -- Alan S. Kaye, California State University, Fullerton

Synopsis

Presents edited proceedings of a workshop held in Hamburg in 1993 entitled "Romani in Contact with Other Languages". This text includes chapters discussing the history and sociology of Romani.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027236291
• ISBN 13: 9789027236296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 225
• Editor: Matras Yaron