Language Families in Contact
Author | : Anna-Maria Sonnemann |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2022-10-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783110756241 |
ISBN-13 | : 3110756242 |
Rating | : 4/5 (242 Downloads) |
Download or read book Language Families in Contact written by Anna-Maria Sonnemann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.