Research Projects

The Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) Database and Dialect Survey

Sponsors, reports and partnerships

Funding for the RMS-Database project is provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Resource Enhancement Scheme under grant no. B/RE/AN4725/APN11878 (2001-2004), by the AHRB Research Grant Scheme under grant no. B/RG/AN4725/APN9447 (1999-2000), and supported by the Open Society Institute Roma Culture Initiative (2002-2005), the University of Manchester Research Support Fund (1998), and the University of Manchester’s Faculty of Arts Research Support Fund (2002-2003, 2004).

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Reports about the project have appeared in the Guardian as well as in the AHRB Case Studies report.

The project’s collaboration partners include: Dieter Halwachs (Graz), Peter Bakker (Aarhus), Victor A. Friedman (Chicago), Norbert Boretzky (Bochum), Birgit Igla (Sofia), Petra Cech (Vienna), Mozes Heinschink (Vienna), Olga Abramenko (St. Petersburg), Vadim Toropov (Moscow), Irene Sechidou (Thessaloniki), Helena Pirttisaari (Helsinki), Kimmo Granqvist (Helsinki), Henry Hedman (Helsinki).

The RMS project is part of a network of international scholarly research projects in Romani linguistics, which include Romlex, the ROMANI-Projekt Graz, and Rombase