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Romani
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 54.00Romani, the language spoken by over 3.5 million Gypsies, has recently attracted increasing interest from both scholars and language policy makers. This book is the first overview in English of the structure, history, typology and dialects of Romani. It provides an essential reference for anyone interested in this fascinating language. more...
Language Contact
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 41.00An introduction to language contact, which occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence each other. more...
Romani in Britain
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 65.00A comprehensive academic work dedicated to the unique speech form of English Romanies/Gypsies often called Anglo-Romani. more...
Romani in Contact
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1995; US$ 158.00A 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... more...
A Grammar of Domari
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 210.00Domari is an Indo-Aryan language that is now highly endangered. Its speakers were traditionally nomadic metalworkers and musicians who lived in tiny, geographically scattered and socially isolated communities throughout the Middle East. The grammar is based on conversational material recorded in Jerusalem in the mid-1990s with some of the last speakers... more...
Markedness and Language Change
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 182.00The book challenges the conventional notion of Markedness? a very central albeit controversial concept in linguistic theory. The authors investigate the structural representation of a selection of semantic categories in a sample of some 100 varieties of Romani, which have been separated and dispersed throughout Europe during the past six centuries.... more...
The Mixed Language Debate
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 182.00Mixed Languages are speech varieties that arise in bilingual settings, often as markers of ethnic separateness. They combine structures inherited from different parent languages, often resulting in odd and unique splits that present a challenge to theories of contact-induced change as well as genetic classification. This collection of articles is devoted... more...
Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 210.00The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing... more...
Grammatical Relations in Romani
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 165.00This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain ? that of noun phrase grammar. The approach taken is unique in that it places this typologically hybrid language in the centre of a general linguistic, universal discussion of the relevant noun phrase phenomena. The book is also the first assembly... more...
Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 188.00The interest in Romani, the language of the Roma or "Gypsies", has grown considerably in recent years. Romani has drawn attention from a.o. grammarians, sociolinguists, Indologists, language contact researchers, language planners, educators, typologists and historical linguists. This Indic language is spoken by between five and ten million people... more...









