Editors:
- Provides an indispensable resource for Romani language students and scholars
- Offers a key point of reference for typologists, sociologists, anthropologists and ethnographers with an interest in Romani language and culture
- Represents essential reading for linguists and social scientists who focus on Romani as part of a wider interest in language evolution, acquisition and variation
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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History
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Front Matter
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Structure
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About this book
Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia. Documentation and research on the language draws on a tradition of more than two centuries, yet it remains relatively unknown and often engulfed by myths. In recent decades there has been an upsurge of interest in the language including language maintenance and educational projects, the creation of digital resources, language policy initiatives, and a flourishing community of online users of the language. This Handbook presents state of the art research on Romani language and linguistics. Bringing together key established scholars in the field of linguistics and neighbouring disciplines, it introduces the reader to the structures of Romani and its dialect divisions, and to the history of research on the language. It then goes on to explore major external influences on the language through contact with other key languages, aspects of language acquisition, and interventions in support of the language through public policy provisions, activism, translation, religious and literary initiatives, and social media. This comprehensive and groundbreaking account of Romani will appeal to students and scholars from across language and linguistics.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Yaron Matras
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University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Anton Tenser
About the editors
Yaron Matras is Professor in Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK.
Anton Tenser is a Docent in Romani Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and an affiliated scholar at the College of Wooster, USA.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics
Editors: Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28105-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28104-5Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28107-6Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28105-2Published: 10 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 596
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Minority Languages, Sociolinguistics, Language History, Language Policy and Planning, Historical Linguistics