2. http://domarisociety.wix.com/domari-society-website, under 'Cultural preservation', accessed in December 2011. 3. A number of Christian missionary videos appear on the web in a form of Persian used by the Luli community of commercial ...
Author: Yaron Matras
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110291421
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
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The grammar is based on conversational material recorded in Jerusalem in the mid-1990s with some of the last speakers of this particular variety.
Author: Professor of Linguistics Yaron Matras
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110291436
Category: Domaaki language
Page: 464
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Domari is an Indo-Aryan language that is now highly endangered. Its speakers were traditionally nomadic metalworkers and musicians who lived in tiny, geographically scattered and socially isolated communities throughout the Middle East. The grammar is based on conversational material recorded in Jerusalem in the mid-1990s with some of the last speakers of this particular variety.This said, the extent of Arabic borrowing into Domari can be described as nothing less but massive. It is indeed easier to point out those domains in grammar in which borrowing is not found; even for those, exceptions or some hedging of ...
Author: Yaron Matras
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110199192
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
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The book contains 30 descriptive chapters dealing with a specific language contact situation. The chapters follow a uniform organisation format, being the narrative version of a standard comprehensive questionnaire previously distributed to all authors. The questionnaire targets systematically the possibility of contact influence / grammatical borrowing in a full range of categories. The uniform structure facilitates a comparison among the chapters and the languages covered. The introduction describes the setup of the questionnaire and the methodology of the approach, along with a survey of the difficulties of sampling in contact linguistics. Two evaluative chapters, each authored by one of the co-editors, draws general conclusions from the volume as a whole (one in relation to borrowed grammatical categories and meaningful hierarchies, the other in relation to the distribution of Matter and Pattern replication).A grammar of Domari. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Stassen, Leon. 2013. Comparative constructions. In Matthew S. Dryer & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), The world atlas of language structures online.
Author: Stefano Manfredi
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 9783961102518
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 702
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This volume offers a synthesis of current expertise on contact-induced change in Arabic and its neighbours, with thirty chapters written by many of the leading experts on this topic. Its purpose is to showcase the current state of knowledge regarding the diverse outcomes of contacts between Arabic and other languages, in a format that is both accessible and useful to Arabists, historical linguists, and students of language contact.{Palestine, Jerusalem, Domari, Arabic, grammar, word list/glossary, language contact, borrowing, placenames, phonology} [1569] Macalister, R.A.S. 1910. A grammar and vocabulary of the language of the Nawar or Zutt, the nomad smiths of ...
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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027275233
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 366
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The interest in Romani, the language of the Roma or "Gypsies", has grown considerably in recent years. Romani has drawn attention from a.o. grammarians, sociolinguists, Indologists, language contact researchers, language planners, educators, typologists and historical linguists.This Indic language is spoken by between five and ten million people world-wide. The bibliography also covers two other Indic languages spoken by peripatetic groups, Dom or Domari from the Middle East, and Lomavren or Bosha of Eastern Turkey and Armenia.The bibliography contains over 2500 titles in more than thirty languages, published between 1900 to 2003. English translations are provided for all titles written in less common languages. There are indexes for general and linguistic terms, Romani varieties, other languages and geographical terms.The book further contains a very useful "Guide to Romani Linguistics", which should enable newcomers to enter this highly interesting field by pointing to the essential titles in different subject areas.A grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library 59). Berlin: De Gruyter. Matushansky, Ora. 2006. Why rose is the rose: On the use of definite articles in proper names. In Olivier Bonami & Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.) ...
Author: Laura Becker
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 9783110724424
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 461
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This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world’s languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types according to their referential functions: definite, anaphoric, weak definite, recognitional, indefinite, presentational, exclusive-specific, nonspecific, inclusive-specific, and referential articles. All 10 types are described in detail with examples from various languages of the world. The book also addresses crosslinguistic trends concerning the distribution and the development of different article types, and it proposes a typology of article systems. The aim of this study is to provide a general crosslinguistic overview concerning the attested properties and distributions of articles. It is geared towards readers with interests in language typology and the nominal domain, and it can serve as a point of reference for language-specific studies of articles or determiners.2011. Universals of structural borrowing. In Peter Siemund (ed.), Linguistic universals and language variation, 204–233. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton. Matras, Yaron. 2012a. A grammar of Domari. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Author: Francesco Gardani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 9781614513209
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 316
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By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and methodological accounts. The authors address fundamental issues, such as the alleged universal dispreference for morphological borrowing and its effects on morphosyntactic complexity, and corroborate their analyses with strong cross-linguistic evidence.Cambridge University Press. Matras, Y. (2012). A grammar of Domari (Mouton grammar library 59). De Gruyter Mouton. McCrink, K., & Wynn, K. (2007). Ratio abstraction by 6-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 18(8), 740–745.
Author: Ronit Levie
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9783030998912
Category: Education
Page: 716
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This volume dedicated to Dorit Ravid, offers 29 new chapters on the multiple facets of spoken and written language learning and usage from a group of illustrious scholars and scientists, focusing on typologically different languages and anchored in a variety of communicative settings. The book encompasses five interrelated yet distinct topics. One set of studies is in the field of developmental psycholinguistics, covering the acquisition of lexical and grammatical categories from toddlerhood to adolescence. A second topic involves a section of studies on the interface of cognition and language, with chapters on processing, production, comprehension, teaching and learning language in usage and in historical perspective. A third topic involves a theoretical and applied perspectives on the acquisition and development of literacy competence, including reading, writing, spelling and text production. A fourth topic brings together an array of studies on social, environmental and clinical diversity in language, highlighting novel issues in multilingualism, immigration, language and literacy disorders. Finally, a section of the volume examines in depth questions in Modern Hebrew linguistics, as the home language and launching base of Dorit Ravid’s research work.... 1914); and Yaron Matras, A Grammar of Domari (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2012). 55 Gernot Windfuhr, “European Gypsy in Iran: A First Report,” Anthropological Linguistics 12, no. 8 (1970): 271–92. The perspective of Donald L. Stilo, ...
Author: Kristina Richardson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780755635788
Category: Social Science
Page: 256
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Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history In Middle Eastern cities as early as the mid-8th century, the Sons of Sasan begged, trained animals, sold medicinal plants and potions, and told fortunes. They captivated the imagination of Arab writers and playwrights, who immortalized their strange ways in poems, plays, and the Thousand and One Nights. Using a wide range of sources, Richardson investigates the lived experiences of these Sons of Sasan, who changed their name to Ghuraba' (Strangers) by the late 1200s. This name became the Arabic word for the Roma and Roma-affiliated groups also known under the pejorative term 'Gypsies'. This book uses mostly Ghuraba'-authored works to understand their tribal organization and professional niches as well as providing a glossary of their language Sin. It also examines the urban homes, neighborhoods, and cemeteries that they constructed. Within these isolated communities they developed and nurtured a deep literary culture and astrological tradition, broadening our appreciation of the cultural contributions of medieval minority communities. Remarkably, the Ghuraba' began blockprinting textual amulets by the 10th century, centuries before printing on paper arrived in central Europe. When Roma tribes migrated from Ottoman territories into Bavaria and Bohemia in the 1410s, they may have carried this printing technology into the Holy Roman Empire.A Grammar of Domari. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Matras, Yaron, and Sakel, Jeanette. (eds.). 2007. Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Matras, Yaron, April M. S. McMahon, and Nigel Vincent ...
Author: Anthony P. Grant
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190876906
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages. In many cases, this influence is reflected in words which have been absorbed from other languages as the names for newer items or ideas, such as perestroika, manga, or intifada (from Russian, Japanese, and Arabic respectively). In other cases, the influence of other languages goes deeper, and includes the addition of new sounds, grammatical forms, and idioms to the pre-existing language. For example, English's structure has been shaped in such a way by the effects of Norse, French, Latin, and Celtic--though English is not alone in its openness to these influences. Any features can potentially be transferred from one language to another if the sociolinguistic and structural circumstances allow for it. Further, new languages--pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages--can come into being as the result of language contact. In thirty-three chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact examines the various forms of contact-induced linguistic change and the levels of language which have provided instances of these influences. In addition, it provides accounts of how language contact has affected some twenty languages, spoken and signed, from all parts of the world. Chapters are written by experts and native-speakers from years of research and fieldwork. Ultimately, this Handbook provides an authoritative account of the possibilities and products of contact-induced linguistic change.