Markedness and Language Change: The Romani Sample

by Yaron Matras, Viktor Elšik, Viktor Elšík

'Markedness' is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of closely-related speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over 100 dialects of Romani, collected and processed via the Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) Database - a comparative grammatical outline in electronic form, constructed by the authors between 2000-2004...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110184524
• ISBN13: 9783110184525
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary