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The Typology and Dialectology of Romani

By Yaron Matras , Peter Bakker , Khristo Kyuchukov (Eds.)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins
Year
1997
ISBN
9027236615, 9789027236616, 1556198728, 9781556198724
LCC
PK2897 .T97 1997
Google Books ID
uJQe0oj76sQC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12421205 bytes)
Series
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 156
Edition
1st
Pages
256\256
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

This volume reflects developments in the typology and dialectology of Romani, in particular the four main groups: Balkan, Vlach, Central and Northern. It aims to point out features of Romani which are likely to be of interest to general linguists in the context of studies of universal properties of language. Topics covered include: the paradigmatic-inflectional dichotomy between Asian-based and European-based words; grammatical aspects which may define Romani as a typologically mixed language; and the drift from inflectional nominal case-marking to an analytic system of prepositions.

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