Markedness and Language Change
The Romani Sample
- Hardcover
498 pages
- Release Date
21 February 2006
Summary
‘Markedness’ is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of closely-related speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over 100 dialects of Romani, collected and processed via the Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) Database - a comparative grammatical outline in electronic form, constructed by the authors between 2000-2004. Romani dialects provide an exciting sample …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783110184525 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3110184524 |
| Author: | Viktor Elšik, Yaron Matras |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Imprint: | De Gruyter Mouton |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 498 |
| Release Date: | 21 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 830g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 155mm |
| Series: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] |
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About The Author
Viktor Elšik
Viktor Elšik teaches at the Univerzita Karlova, Prague, Czech Republic.
Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.
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