Romani in contact
Subtitle: the history, structure, and sociology of a language
By: edited by Yaron Matras.
Contributors: Matras, Yaron, 1963-; International Conference on Romani Linguistics (1st : 1993 : Hamburg, Germany)
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.; v. 126
Publisher: J. Benjamins; John Benjamins Pub Co; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Romani language -- Congresses.; Languages in contact -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references(p. 204-205) and index.
Papers presented at a workshop held May 1993, Hamburg, Ger. and later named the 1st International Conference on Romani Linguistics.
Table of contents: title: On typological changes and structural borrowing in the history of European Romani / Vit Bubenik; title: On the migration and affiliation of the Ḍōmba : Iranian words in Rom, Lom, and Dom Gypsy / Ian Hancock; title: Plagiarism and lexical orphans in the European Romani lexicon / Anthony Grant; title: Interdialectal interference in Romani / Norbert Boretzky; title: Verb evidentials and their discourse function in Vlach Romani narratives / Yaron Matras; title: Notes on the genesis of Caló and other Iberian Para-Romani varieties / Peter Bakker; title: Romani lexical items in colloquial Romanian / Corinna Leschber; title: Romani standardization and status in the Republic of Macedonia / Victor A. Friedman; title: Trial and error in written Romani on the pages of Romani periodicals / Milena Hübschmannová.