Romani: A Linguistic IntroductionRomani 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 2002 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 this fascinating language. |
Contents
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a brief overview | 5 |
3 Historical and linguistic origins | 14 |
4 Descriptive phonology | 49 |
5 Nominal forms and categories | 72 |
6 Verb morphology | 117 |
7 Syntactic typology | 165 |
8 Grammatical borrowing | 191 |
9 Dialect classification | 214 |
10 Romani sociolinguistics | 238 |
11 Language planning and codification | 251 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectival adjectives adpositions affixes affricates Agia Varvara aktionsart animacy appears Arli athematic Bakker Balkan dialects Boretzky and Igla borrowing Bugurdži clitics cluster COMP component concord markers consonant consonantal contact languages copula definite article deictic demonstratives dental dialects of Romani Domari Early Romani Early Romani period Elšík European loans Finnish Romani function genitive grammatical grammaticalisation Greek Greek-derived Gurbet Halwachs historical Hungarian Igla indefinite individual dialects Indo-Aryan inflection inherited innovations intransitive intransitive derivations Iranian jotation Kelderaš Layer lexical lexicon linguistics loan-verb adaptation Lomavren Lovari masculine Matras modal morphology NIA languages nominative Northern Central dialects Northern Vlax nouns oblique forms origin palatalisation Para-Romani paradigm participle past-tense pattern personal concord plural Polska Roma position pre-European prepositions pronominal pronouns Proto-Romani recent Romani dialects Romanian Romungro Sepeči shared singular Sinti Slavic Southern Balkan Southern Central structural suffix tense third-person transitive Turkish varieties verb Vlax Vlax dialects vocabulary vowel Welsh Romani