General and Applied Romani Linguistics: Proceedings From the 6th International Conference On Romani Linguistics
Romani Studies › Vol. 19 Nbr. 1, June 2009
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Essential to the new model is the idea that membership in a dialect group is not absolute, but rather relative to the specific linguistic features, with the whole network of dialects forming dialect continua. [...] the article provides a new solid theoretical framework for researching and discussing the dialects of Romani (the framework has since been applied, for instance, in Tenser 2008).
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General and Applied Romani Linguistics: Proceedings From the 6th International Conference On Romani Linguistics
General and Applied Romani Linguistics: Proceedings from the 6th International Conference on Romani Linguistics. Barbara Schrammel, Dieter W. Halwachs and Gerd Ambrosch (eds.). Lincom: Munich. 2005. isbn 3-89586741-1- 190 pp.
This is the fourth volume to come out of this series of conferences, and it reflects some of the older trends as well as new directions in the field of Romani Studies. The volume is organized into five sections: (1) dialectology; (2) studies on individual Romani dialects; (3) language change with and without contact; (4) computational linguistics; and (5) sociolinguistics.The collec...See the full content of this document
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