TY - BOOK ID - 77937470 TI - Romani in contact PY - 1995 SN - 1283312719 9786613312716 902727648X 9789027276483 155619580X 9789027236296 9781556195808 9027236291 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Romani language KW - Languages in contact KW - Gypsy language KW - Romany language KW - Rommany language KW - Indo-Aryan languages, Modern KW - Romanies KW - Languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77937470 AB - A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology. Approaching the language via its ever-surfacing character as a language in contact, the volume gives expression to part of the wide range or research represented in today's field of Romani linguistics. Contributions focus on problems in typological change and structural borrowing, lexical borrowing and lexcial reconstruction, the Iranian influence on the language, interdi ER -