Date: 03-Oct-2004 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: General and Applied Romani Linguistics: Schrammel, Halwachs, Ambrosch (Eds)
Title: General and Applied Romani Linguistics
Subtitle: Proceedings from the 6th International Conference on Romani Linguistics
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics H29
The volume 'General and applied Romani linguistics' presents papers from
the 6th International Conference on Romani Linguistics 2002 in Graz,
Austria. The collection reflects recent trends in Romani linguistics. The
last decades saw both an intensification of the traditional
subdisciplines, such as descriptive linguistics and dialectology, as well
as the emergence of new subdisciplines, e.g. computational linguistics and
sociolinguistics. Parallel to this Romani linguists, using Romani as an
unique and valuable language sample, participated more and more in
theoretical linguistic discussion.
Section 1 contains two papers on dialectology. Matras proposes a
groundbreaking new approach to the classification of Romani dialects, while
Igla concentrates on the internal classification of a particular dialect
group of Romani.
Section 2 features descriptive studies on Romani varieties with little
documentation so far (Sechidou on a Greek Romani dialect, Cherenkov on a
Russian dialect, Adiego on Spanish Caló and Lapov on Romani varieties in
Croatia).
The papers in section 3 all discuss language change in Romani. Some are
concerned with contact-induced language change (Schrammel, Draganova and to
some extent Pirttisaari), others discuss language internal change
(Boretzky, Simonsen).
Section 4 finally introduces computational Romani linguistics with a paper
by Granquist on a morphological parser for Romani.
The final section contains papers on different aspects of Romani
sociolinguistics (Friedman on the future of Romani in Macedonia, Petrovi? &
Stefanovi? on Roma refugees in Kosovo, Marushiakova & Popov on the
communication of nomadic Gypsy groups).
Contents:
1. Romani dialectology
Yaron Matras: The classification of Romani dialects: A
geographic-historical perspective
Birgit Igla: Sinti-Manu?: Aspects of classification
2. Descriptive studies on individual Romani dialects
Lev. N. Cherenkov: The Pla??uny and their dialect
Irene Sechidou: The dialect of Ajios Athanasios
Ignasi-Xavier Adiego: The Vestiges of Caló Today
Zoran Lapov: The Romani groups and dialects in Croatia. With a special
emphasis on the Romani borrowings in the Croatian language
3. Language change with and without contact
Desislava Draganova: Turkish verbs in Bulgarian Romani
Barbara Schrammel: Borrowed verbal particles and prefixes: A comparative
approach
Helena Pirttisaari: A functional approach to the distribution of participle
suffixes in Finnish Romani
Norbert Boretzky: Metathesis and other, functionally related, sound changes
in Romani
Gitte Grønning Simonsen: Semantic changes in body parts from Sanskrit to Romani
4. Computational linguistics
Kimmo Granqvist: ROMTWOL - An implementation of a two-level morphological
processor for Finnish Romani
5. Sociolinguistics
Victor A. Friedman: The Romani language in Macedonia in the third
millennium: progress and problems
Jelena Petrovi? & Lada Stefanovi?: Socio-linguistic aspects of language of
Roma refugees from Kosovo - A comparative study
Elena Marushiakova & Vesselin Popov: Communications between nomadic Gypsy
groups
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
General Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Language Description
Sociolinguistics
Anthropological Linguistics
Romani Languages
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