Language Families in Contact : : The Mutual Impact of Slavic and Romani / / Anna-Maria Sonnemann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Sonnemann, Anna-Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 247 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of figures --; List of tables --; Abbreviations --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Two language families in contact? On the status of Slavic and Romani --; 3 Examining contact phenomena through a contemporary lens --; 4 The structural impact of Slavic on Romani --; 5 Slavic verbal prefixes in Romani – figures, forms and functions --; 6 Lexical borrowings from Slavic in Romani --; 7 Romani borrowings in diastratic varieties of Slavic --; 8 Writing Romani with ‘Slavic’ alphabets --; 9 Conclusion --; Appendix 1 (chapter 6): Alphabetical list of analyzed words --; Appendix 2 (chapter 7): Romani borrowings in diastratic varieties of Slavic --; References --; Subject index --; Language index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110756173; 9783110766820; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993707; 9783110993684
• ISSN: 2190-698X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110756173
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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.