Publications
Articles
- 2007. Grammatical borrowing in Domari. In: Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds. Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. 151-164. [download pdf]
- 2007. In print as: Matras, Y. 2011. Domari. In: Tatiana I. Oranskaia, Yulia V. Mazurova, Andrej A. Kibrik, Leonid I. Kulikov, Aleksandr Y. Rusakov. eds. Languages of the world. New Indo-Aryan languages. Moscow: Academia. 775-811. [download pdf]
- 2004. A conflict of paradigms. Review article of Barany, Zoltan. The East-European Gypsies; and Hancock, Ian. We are the Rromani people. Romani Studies 14-2: 193-209. [download pdf]
- , 2003. Interdialect contact of Czech and Slovak Romani varieties. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 162, 41-62.
- 2001. Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani. Language Typology and Universals (STUF) 53-4, 162-180. [download pdf]
- , 2001. Word-form borrowing in indefinites: Romani evidence. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 54, 126-147.
- 2000. Romani migrations in the post-communist era: their historical and political significance. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 12-2, 32-50. [download pdf]
- , 2000. Romani nominal paradigms: their structure, diversity and development. In: Elšík, V. & Matras, Y., eds. Grammatical relations in Romani: the noun phrase. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 9-30.
- , 2000. Interdialectal variation in Romani personal pronouns. In: Elšík, V. & Matras, Y., eds. Grammatical relations in Romani: the noun phrase. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 65-94
- , in press. Modality in Romani. In: Hansen, B., de Haan, F. eds. Modality in European languages. Berlin: Mouton. 267-324. [download pdf]
- , 2009. The RMS Database and web resource. In: Everaert, Martin & Musgrave, Simon. eds. The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 329-362 [download pdf]
- , 2011. Dialect classification: a study of Romani numerals. Student essay, University of Manchester. [download pdf]
- , 2011. Romani Orthographies. Student essay, University of Manchester. [download pdf]
- , 2011. The dialect of the Mitrovica Roma. Romani Studies 5, Vol. 21, No. 1, 57-113. [download pdf]
- , in press. Defining the limits of grammatical borrowing. In: Marcantonio, Angela. ed. The Indo-European language family: Questions about its status (Monograph series n. 55 of Journal of Indo-European Studies). [download pdf]
- , 2007. Grammatical borrowing in Domari. In: Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds. Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 151-164.
- , 2007. The challenges of language codification in a transnational context. In: Molinelli, Piera, with Giuliano Bernini, Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Ada Valentini. Eds. Standard e non standard tra scelta e norma. Atti del XXX congresso della Società Italiana di Glottologia. Roma: Il Calamo. 43-54.
- , 2006. Romani in the UK. BBC 'Voices'.
- , 2006. Gypsies, Arabic of. In: Versteegh, Kees. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Leiden: Brill. [download pdf]
- , 2006. Romani. In: Brown, Keith, ed. Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics. Second edition. Oxford: Elsevier. [download pdf]
- , 2006. Domari. In: Brown, Keith, ed. Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics. Second edition. Oxford: Elsevier. [download pdf]
- , 2005. The full extent of fusion: A test case for connectivity and language contact. In: Walter Bisang, Thomas Bierschenk, Detlev Kreikenbom and Ursula Verhoeven, eds. Kulturelle und sprachliche Kontakte: Prozesse des Wandels in historischen Spannungsfeldern Nordostafrikas/Westasiens. Akten zum 2. Symposium des SFB 295. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag. 241-255. [download pdf]
- , 2005. The future of Romani: Toward a policy of linguistic pluralism. Roma Rights Quarterly 1:31-44. [download pdf]
- 2005. The status of Romani in Europe. Report submitted to the Council of Europe’s Language policy Division, October 2005. [download pfd]
- , 2005. The classification of Romani dialects: A geographic-historical perspective. In: Halwachs, D. & Schrammel, Barbara, eds. General and applied Romani linguistics. Munich: Lincom Europa. 7-26. [download pdf]
- , 2004. Romacilikanes: The Romani dialect of Parakalamos in Greece. Romani Studies. 14:59-109. [download pdf]
- , 2004. The role of language in mystifying and de-mystifying Gypsy identity. In: Saul, Nicholas & Tebbutt, Susan, eds. The role of the Romanies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 53-78. [download pdf]
- , 2003. Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani. In: Kortmann, Bernd, ed. Dialectology meets typology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 277-304.
- , 2003. Die Sprache der Roma: ein historischer Umriss. In: Matras, Yaron, Winterberg, Hans, Zimmermann, Michael,. eds. Sinti, Roma, Gypsies. Berlin: Metropol. 131-161
- , 2003. Defining typical features of minor languages (with special reference to Domari). In: Sherzer, Joel & Stolz, Thomas (eds.). Minor Languages. Approaches, definitions, controversies. Bochum: Brockmeyer. 1-14.
- , 2000. Migrations and replacive convergence as sources of diversity in the dialects of Romani. In: Mattheier, Klaus, ed. Dialect and migration in a changing Europe. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 173-194.
- , 2000. The structural and functional composition of Romani demonstratives. In: Elšík, V. & Matras, Y., eds. Grammatical relations in Romani: the noun phrase. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 95-122
- , 2000. Two Domari legends about the origin of the Doms. Romani Studies, 5th series, 10, 53-79. [download pdf]
- , 2000. Romani migrations in the post-communist era: their historical and political significance. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 12-2, 32-50.
- , 1999. s/h alternation in Romani: An historical and functional interpretation. Grazer Linguistische Studien 51, 99-129.
- , 1999. The state of present-day Domari in Jerusalem. Mediterranean Language Review 11, 1-58. [download pdf]
- , 1999. The speech of the Polska Roma. Some highlighted features and their implications for Romani dialectology. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society fifth series 9, 1-28.
- , 1999. Subject clitics in Sinti. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 46, 147-168.
- , 1999. Johann Rüdiger and the study of Romani in 18th century Germany. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, fifth series 9, 89-116. [download pdf]
- , 1999. Writing Romani: The pragmatics of codification in a stateless language. Applied Linguistics 20-4, 481-502.
- , 1999. Sprachplanung und Spracheinstellung im Romanes. In: Halwachs, Dieter W. & Menz, Florian, eds. Die Sprache der Roma. Klagenfurt: Drava. 95-111.
- , 1999. s/h alternation in Romani: An historical and functional interpretation. Grazer Linguistische Studien 51: 99-129.
- , 1999. Rüdiger’s contribution to the study of Romani origins. Romano Dzaniben 6 (1-2), 80-103.
- , 1998. Deixis and deictic oppositions in discourse: evidence from Romani. Journal of Pragmatics 29-4, 393-428.
- , 1998. Utterance modifiers and universals of grammatical borrowing. Linguistics 36-2, 281-331.
- , 1997. Schriftliche Lehrmittel in Romanes: ein Beispiel von Sprachplanung in einer Minderheitensprache. Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie 54, 165-191.
- , 1996. Prozedurale Fusion: Grammatische Interferenzschichten im Romanes. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 49-1, 60-78.
- , 1998. The development of the Romani civil rights movement in Germany 1945-1996. In: Tebbutt, Susan, ed. Sinti and Roma in German-speaking society and literature. Oxford/Providence: Berghahn. 49-63.
- , 1998. Convergent development, grammaticalization, and the problem of ‘mutual isomorphism’. In: Boeder, Winfried, Schroeder, Christoph, Karl-Heinz Wagner, eds. Sprache in Raum und Zeit. Tübingen: Narr. 89-103.
- , 1998. The Romani element in Jenisch and Rotwelsch. in: Matras, Y., ed. The Romani element in non-standard speech. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.. 193-230.
- , 1998. Para-Romani revisited. in: Matras, Y, ed. The Romani element in non-standard speech. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 1-27.
- , 1997. Probleme und Chancen der Verschriftung der Sprache der Roma und Sinti. In: Balhorn, Heiko & Niemann, Heide (eds) Sprachen werden Schrift. Mündlichkeit, Schriftlichkeit, Mehrsprachigkeit. Lengwill: Libelle. 110-116.
- , 1997. The typology of case and case layer distribution in Romani. In: Matras, Y. Bakker P., & Kyuchukov, H., eds. The typology and dialectology of Romani. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 61-94.
- , 1997. with Peter Bakker. Introduction. In: Matras, Y. Bakker P., & Kyuchukov, H., eds. The typology and dialectology of Romani. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. i-xxxi.
- , 1995. Connective (VS) word order in Romani. In: Matras, Yaron and Hans-Jürgen Sasse. (eds.) VS-order and theticity in European languages. Berlin: Akademie. [Special issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 48-1/2). 189-203.
- , 1995. Verb evidentials and their discourse function in Vlach Romani narratives. In: Matras, Y., ed. Romani in contact. The history, structure and sociology of a language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 95-123.
- , 1994. Structural Balkanisms in Romani. In: Reiter, Norbert, Uwe Hinrichs & Jefiina van Leeuwen-Turnocová (eds.) Sprachlicher Standard und Substandard in Südosteuropa und Osteuropa, Berlin/Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 195-210.
- , 2007. Angloromani: A different kind of language? Anthropological Linguistics 49-2, 142-164. [download pdf]
- , 2005. Borrowed verbal particles and prefixes in Romani: a comparative approache. In: Ambrosch, Gerd, Schrammel, Barbara & Halwachs, Dieter W., eds. General and applied Romani linguistics. Munich: Lincom. 99-113.