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Language Contact by Yaron Matras
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £33.31Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism,... -
A Grammar of Domari by Yaron Matras 9783110289145
RRP: £182.50Booksplease Price: £118.58Its 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... -
Language Contact by Yaron Matras 9781108425117
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £87.55Language contact occurs when speakers of different languages interact and their languages influence one another. Drawing on the author's own first-hand observations of child and adult bilingualism,... -
The Romani Gypsies by Yaron Matras 9780674368385
Booksplease Price: £31.99Roms (Gypsies) have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages and yet still seem exotic to Westerners. Yaron Matras challenges stereotypes that have long been the unwelcome travel companions of... -
Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language by Yaron Matras
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Romani is one of Britain's oldest and most established minority languages. Brought to the country by Romani immigrants from continental Europe in the sixteenth century or even earlier, it was spoken... -
Romani: A Linguistic Introduction by Yaron Matras 9780521631655
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.30Romani is a language of Indo-Aryan origin which is spoken in Europe by the people known as 'Gypsies' (who usually refer to themselves as Rom). There are upwards of 3.5 million speakers, and their... -
Romani: A Linguistic Introduction by Yaron Matras 9780521023306
Booksplease Price: £32.12Romani is a language of Indo-Aryan origin which is spoken in Europe by the people known as 'Gypsies' (who usually refer to themselves as Rom). There are upwards of 3.5 million speakers, and their... -
Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish by Yaron Matras 9783030788360
Booksplease Price: £90.68This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish. The contributions draw on data collected as part of the project on Structural... -
Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish by Yaron Matras 9783030788391
Booksplease Price: £90.86This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish. The contributions draw on data collected as part of the project on Structural... -
Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Yaron Matras 9783110196283
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £100.92The 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... -
Speech and the City: Multilingualism, Decoloniality and the Civic University by Yaron Matras 9781108485708
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.14The Brexit debate has been accompanied by a rise in hostile attitudes to multilingualism. However, cities can provide an important counter-weight to political polarisation by forging civic identities... -
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies by Yaron Matras
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their cultureWho are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining... -
Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures: Romanian Roma Migrants in Western Europe by Yaron Matras 9780367884963
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66The book examines some of the dilemmas surrounding Europe's open borders, migrations, and identities through the prism of the Roma - Europe's most dispersed and socially marginalised population. The... -
The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact by Evangelia Adamou
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established field of... -
Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide by Peter Bakker 9781501512674
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £16.12This volume deals with several types of contact languages: pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, and multi-ethnolects. It also approaches contact languages from two perspectives: an historical... -
Language Families in Contact: The Mutual Impact of Slavic and Romani by Anna-Maria Sonnemann 9783111631752
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.32The book provides an encyclopaedic overview of the language contact between Slavic languages and Romani in Eastern, South-Eastern and East-Central Europe. It is based on Yaron Matras'... -
NU / NA: A Family of Discourse Markers Across the Languages of Europe and Beyond by Peter Auer 9783110347234
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £77.92This book, situated within the framework of Comparative Interactional Linguistics, explores a family of fourteen discourse markers across the languages of Europe and beyond (Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian,... -
Aspects of Language Contact: New Theoretical, Methodological and Empirical Findings with Special Focus on Romancisation Processes by Thomas Stolz 9783110195842
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £100.42This edited volume brings together fourteen original contributions to the on-going debate about what is possible in contact-induced language change. The authors present a number of new vistas on...