LINGUIST List 22.337 Wed Jan 19 2011 Books: Lang Documentation/Historical Ling: Sechidou Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Ulrich Lueders , Balkan Romani: The dialect of Ajios Athanasios/Greece: Sechidou Message 1: Balkan Romani: The dialect of Ajios Athanasios/Greece: Sechidou Date: 17-Jan-2011 From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de> Subject: Balkan Romani: The dialect of Ajios Athanasios/Greece: Sechidou E-mail this message to a friend Title: Balkan Romani: The dialect of Ajios Athanasios/Greece Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 481 Published: 2011 Publisher: Lincom GmbH                 http://www.lincom.eu Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu/shop/article_N-ISBN%25209783862880317/LWM-481:-Balkan-Romani:-The-dialect-of-Ajios-Athanasios_Greece.html?shop_param=cid%3D234%26aid%3DN-ISBN%25209783862880317%26 Author: Irene Sechidou Paperback: ISBN: 9783862880317 Pages: 111 Price: Europe EURO 46.30 Abstract: The Romani dialect of Ajios Athanasios is spoken by approximately 1.800 speakers in a suburb of the city of Serres in Northern Greece. The dialect belongs to the Balkan Romani dialect group and it is described for the first time. Two reasons make AA an interesting case study for Balkan Romani: Firstly, as AA lost contact with other Balkan dialects early on, it developed innovative features in isolation and retained a large number of archaisms. Secondly, AA is an appropriate dialect for studying language contact between Balkan Romani and Greek. Contact with Greek has been crucial to the linguistic history of Romani. The aim of this study is to provide a detailed grammatical description of AA and to compare AA to other Balkan Romani dialects. The first chapter deals with descriptive phonology and certain issues of historical phonology. The second chapter deals with inflectional and derivational morphology of nominal and verbal categories. The third chapter, on syntax, investigates coordination, subordination and constituent order. The fourth chapter discusses morphological borrowing of AA - and Balkan Romani - from Greek. The fifth chapter concerns the replication of Balkan constructions in AA. The concluding chapter on dialect classification discusses the internal relations of Balkan Romani dialects. Archaisms, innovations, phonological phenomena such as palatalisations, and morphosyntactic phenomena such as cliticisation, are presented in tables and on maps. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Language Documentation                             Morphology                             Phonology                             Syntax                             Anthropological Linguistics                             Romani Languages Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)                             Romani, Balkan (rmn) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=52689 New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Page Updated: 19-Jan-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.