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Name:	Yaron  Matras
Institution:	University of Manchester
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State and/or Country:	NA United Kingdom
Linguistic Field(s):	Discourse Analysis General Linguistics Historical Linguistics Language Documentation Pragmatics Sociolinguistics Typology Anthropological Linguistics
Selected Publications:	2002. Romani: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge University Press. 1994. Untersuchungen zu Grammatik und Diskurs des Romanes: Dialekt der Keldera‰a/Lovara. [Studies in Romani grammar and discourse: Keldera‰/Lovara dialect] Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 256 pp. 2004. Romacilikanes: The Romani dialect of Parakalamos. Romani Studies 14-1: 59-109. 2001. Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani. Language Typology and Universals (STUF) 53-4, 162-180. 2000a. Mixed languages: A functional-communicative approach. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition 3-2, 79-99 2000b. Back to motivations: between discourse and grammar. Reply to peer commentaries, Bilingualism: Language & Cognition 3-2, 126-129. 2000c. Fusion and the cognitive basis for bilingual discourse markers. International Journal of Bilingualism. 4:4. 505-528. 2000d. Two Domari legends about the origin of the Doms. Romani Studies, 5th series, 10, 53-79. 2000e. Romani migrations in the post-communist era: their historical and political significance. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 12-2, 32-50. 1999a. The speech of the Polska Roma. Some highlighted features and their implications for Romani dialectology. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society fifth series 9, 1-28. 1999b. Subject clitics in Sinti. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 46, 147-168. 1999c. Johann R¸diger and the study of Romani in 18th century Germany. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, fifth series 9, 89-116. 1999d. Writing Romani: The pragmatics of codification in a stateless language. Applied Linguistics 20-4, 481-502. 1999e. The state of present-day Domari in Jerusalem. Mediterranean Language Review 11, 1-58. 1999f. s/h alternation in Romani: An historical and functional interpretation. Grazer Linguistische Studien 51: 99-129. 1999g. R¸diger’s contribution to the study of Romani origins. Romano Dzaniben 6 (1-2), 80-103. 1998a. Deixis and deictic oppositions in discourse: evidence from Romani. Journal of Pragmatics 29-4, 393-428. 1998b. Utterance modifiers and universals of grammatical borrowing. Linguistics 36-2, 281-331. 1997a. Schriftliche Lehrmittel in Romanes: ein Beispiel von Sprachplanung in einer Minderheitensprache. Osnabr¸cker Beitr‰ge zur Sprachtheorie 54, 165-191. 1997b. Clause combining, ergativity, and coreferent deletion in Kurmanji. Studies in Language 21:3, 613-653.
Announced on LINGUIST :	Grammatical Relations in Romani  The Typology and Dialectology of Romani  Romani in Contact. The History, Structure and Sociology of a language  Romani: A Linguistic Introduction  Low German  Low German (East Frisian dialect)  Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics  The Mixed Language Debate  A Grammar of Domari  Markedness and Language Change  Linguistic Areas  Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective  Language Contact
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	The Mixed Language Debate  A Grammar of Domari
Courses Taught:	Language contact, Romani linguistics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Dialectology
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