A Handbook of Vlax Romani
Author : Ian Hancock
Publisher : Slavica Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Ian Hancock
Publisher : Slavica Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Yaron Matras
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3030281051
Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Documentation and research on the language draws on a tradition of more than two centuries, yet it remains relatively unknown and often engulfed by myths. In recent decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the language including language maintenance and educational projects, the creation of digital resources, language policy initiatives, and a flourishing community of online users of the language. This Handbook presents state of the art research on Romani language and linguistics. Bringing together key established scholars in the field of linguistics and neighbouring disciplines, it introduces the reader to the structures of Romani and its dialect divisions, and to the history of research on the language. It then goes on to explore major external influences on the language through contact with other key languages, aspects of language acquisition, and interventions in support of the language through public policy provisions, activism, translation, religious and literary initiatives, and social media. This comprehensive and groundbreaking account of Romani will appeal to students and scholars from across language and linguistics.
Author : Peter Bakker
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781902806068
This book deals with the Romani language. It does not teach the readers to speak the language. Rather, it deals with its origin, its current use and status, its beginning literature and films, and the way it is learned by children and much more. It shows that Romani is a language in its own right, with its own, unique grammatical system, dialects, and particular norms of language use. Pressure from the outside world has diminished the use of the language in some areas, but generally it is a thriving language, spoken by millions of people.
Author : Ronald Lee
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1902806441
Romani has many dialects and no standard written form. This course of language lessons is based on the Romani language as spoken by the Kalderash Roma in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The course is designed for lay people, and any grammatical and linguistic terms are explained in plain English.
Author : Ian Hancock
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Romani language
ISBN :
Author : Yaron Matras
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 1997-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027275882
Contributions to this collection focus on the unity and diversity of the language of the Roma (Gypsies), the only Indic language spoken exclusively in Europe. Properties discussed include the distinct inflectional and derivational patterns applied to Asian and European lexical layers, the distribution of inflectional, agglutinative, and analytic formation among syntactic categories, regularities in the ongoing shift from inflectional to analytic case formation, suppletion, aspects of syntactic convergence, and patterns of morphological transitivization and de-transitivization (causatives and passives). These phenomena are considered in the light of contemporary discussions on language universals, with reference to a variety of different approaches including Prague School Typology, Functional Sentence Perspective, Functional Grammar, functional-pragmatic typology, and general grammaticalization theory. Chapters partly adopt a comparative approach covering all major dialects of the language, and are partly devoted to single-dialect corpuses. Special attention is given to the Czech/Slovak and Hungarian varieties, to previously undescribed dialects from Bulgaria and Turkey, to codified varieties in Macedonia, and to the variety of dialects discussed in the popular works of the Victorian author George Borrow. An extensive Introduction outlines the principal morphosyntactic features of the language and provides a classification of Romani dialects, including an overview of those mentioned in the volume.
Author : Walter O. Weyrauch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2001-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520221857
A unique collection of scholarly essays gathered and reprinted from American Journal of Comparative Law (1997) and the Yale Law Journal (1993) on the legal traditions of the Roma, or Gypsies. A fascinating account of how a primarily alien culture functions in a larger social context.
Author : Yaron Matras
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139433245
Romani is a language of Indo-Aryan origin which is spoken in Europe by the people known as 'Gypsies' (who usually refer to themselves as Rom). There are upwards of 3.5 million speakers, and their language has attracted increasing interest both from scholars and from policy-makers in governments and other organizations during the past ten years. This 2002 book is the first comprehensive overview in English of Romani. It provides a historical linguistic introduction to the structures of Romani and its dialects, as well as surveying the phonology, morphology, syntactic typology and patterns of grammatical borrowing in the language. This book provides an essential reference for anyone interested in this fascinating language.
Author : Viktor Elik
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9027237182
This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain that of noun phrase grammar. The approach taken is unique in that it places this typologically hybrid language in the centre of a general linguistic, universal discussion of the relevant noun phrase phenomena. The book is also the first assembly of articles to deal with Romani as a whole on the basis of cross-dialectal samples, offering areal-typological, dialectological, and historicalinterpretations. The individual contributions discuss morphological and syntactic aspects of nominal and pronominal inflection, definite articles, demonstratives, genitive compounding, external possession, pronominal object doubling and morphosyntactic alignment. Contributors include leading experts in the fields of noun phrase grammar, Romani dialectologists, typologists and historical linguists.
Author : Airi Markkanen
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2024-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9518589038
This anthology is a needed collection of chapters intended for the international audience. The editor of the anthology, having participated in many international conferences and seminars, have often been asked: Is there Roma research in Finland? What is it like? Which perspectives does it utilize? The main function of this anthology is to reply to those questions. It compiles an array of contemporary Roma research done in present day Finland, both by Finnish, native Roma, and international scholars. It will be of interest to both academic as well as lay readers interested in Roma culture and Roma life in Finland, past and present. The chapters focus on the research and the life of Roma in Finland. Bringing into light various sides of the Romani way of life, scholars from different fields include historians, linguists, anthropologists, and cultural and social researchers. The eternal contemplation and negotiation of identities lie in the heart of any culture. We hope that the way Finnish Research on Roma and Romani Culture discusses these issues brings forth interesting topics to consider for any reader, regardless of national or ethnic origin.