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

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.

About the author

Anna-Maria Sonnemann, University of Cologne, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Anna-Maria Sonnemann
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2024
• EAN: 9783111631752
• ISBN: 978-3-11-163175-2
• No. of pages: 247
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 15 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 551 g
• Illustrations: 5 b/w and 12 col. ill., 11 b/w tbl.
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Linguistics, Slavische Sprachen, Sociolinguistics, Sprachkontakt, language contact, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Paperback Project, FOR000000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Slavic, Slavisch, FOR024000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Slavic Languages (Other)