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The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern, South-Eastern and East-Central Europe. It is based on Yaron Matras’ pragmatic-functional approach to language contact and follows a new direction in Romani linguistics that conceives Romani as a subgroup of closely related languages rather than a single language. The central topics discussed in the book are: Slavic impact on Romani phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax; forms and functions of Slavic verbal prefixes in Romani; Slavic impact on the Romani lexicon; Romani elements in the nonstandard lexicon of the Slavic languages; writing Romani with ‘Slavic’ alphabets.
Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articl
The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern, South-Eastern and East-Central Europe. It is
Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - has been pervasive in human history. Howeve
The volume contains contributions on contact-induced language change in situations in which one of the languages is a Turkic one. Most papers deal with cases of
The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language con
