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| Title: | Bilingual speech and language ecology in Greek Thrace: Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish |
| Author: | Evangelia Adamou |
| Institution: | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| Linguistic Field: | Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics |
| Abstract: | This article examines the influence of language ecology on bilingual speech. It is based on first-hand data from two previously undocumented varieties of Romani and Pomak in contact with Turkish in Greek Thrace; in both cases Turkish is an important language for the community's identity. This analysis shows how the Romani-Turkish “fused lect” was produced by intensive and extensive bilingualism through colloquial contact with the trade language, Turkish. In addition, it shows how semi-sedentary Pomak speakers had limited, institutional contact with Turkish, resulting in more traditional codeswitching and emblematic lexical borrowings. Language contact, bilingual speech, fused lect, language ecology, Pomak, Romani, Turkish, Greece* |
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This article appears in Language in Society Vol. 39, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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