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Romani: A Linguistic Introduction
- Y. Matras
- Linguistics
- 6 June 2002
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Utterance modifiers and universals of grammatical borrowing
- Y. Matras
- Linguistics
- 1998
Members of a functional category that I tentatively call utterance modifiers are the most vulnerable items to contact-related linguistic change in grammar. Utterance modifiers regulate…
Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence
This publication is an important contribution to language contact theory. Taking a typological perspective to contact-induced change, the authors investigate the ways in which grammatical structures…
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies
- Y. Matras
- History
- 2014
In I Met Lucky People, Yaron Matras, the world's leading authority on the Romani, explains why we need to reconsider how we view their culture. Who are the Romani people? As one of the last remaining…
Fusion and the cognitive basis for bilingual discourse markers
- Y. Matras
- Linguistics
- 1 December 2000
This paper argues for a cognitive motivation behind the nonseparation of the systems of discourse marking available to bilinguals. It produces evidence that bilingual speakers, in an unconscious…
Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective
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