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Language Families in Contact: The Mutual Impact of Slavic and Romani

Anna-Maria Sonnemann

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
  • Publish Date: Oct 21st, 2024
  • Pages: 259
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9783111631752
  • Categories: Linguistics - GeneralSlavic Languages (Other)

About the Author

Sonnemann, Anna-Maria: - Anna-Maria Sonnemann, University of Cologne, Germany.