Language families in contact : the mutual impact of Slavic and Romani / Anna-Maria Sonnemann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sonnemann, Anna-Maria, author.

Series:

Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]

Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ; v.24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romani language.

Romani language--Foreign words and phrases.

Slavic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-075617-X