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Grammatical Relations in RomaniThe Noun Phrasewith a Foreword by Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz)
2000. x, 244 pp.
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978 90 272 3718 7 / EUR 110.00 978 1 58811 022 0 / USD 165.00
This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain — that of noun phrase grammar. The approach taken is unique in that it places this typologically hybrid language in the centre of a general linguistic, universal discussion of the relevant noun phrase phenomena. The book is also the first assembly of articles to deal with Romani as a whole on the basis of cross-dialectal samples, offering areal-typological, dialectological, and historicalinterpretations. The individual contributions discuss morphological and syntactic aspects of nominal and pronominal inflection, definite articles, demonstratives, genitive compounding, external possession, pronominal object doubling and morphosyntactic alignment. Contributors include leading experts in the fields of noun phrase grammar, Romani dialectologists, typologists and historical linguists.
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“Romani is indeed a fruitful area of research for students of NPs since it possesses a number of unususal features. [...] The editors have chosen an especially rich focus for their collection without exhausting its possibilities. [...] But a good start has been made here.”
Anthony P. Grant in Language Vol. 79.2, 2003
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Linguistics