A Grammar of Domari

by Yaron Matras

Overview

Domari is an Indo-Aryan language that is now highly endangered. Its speakers were traditionally nomadic metalworkers and musicians who lived in tiny, geographically scattered and socially isolated communities throughout the Middle East. The grammar is based on conversational material recorded in Jerusalem in the mid-1990s with some of the last speakers of this particular variety.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110289145
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/14/2012
Series:	Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , #59
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Yaron Matras, Manchester, UK.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter — Preface — Table of contents — List of tables — List of figures. List of abbreviations — Chapter 1. Introduction — Chapter 2. Phonology — Chapter 3. Parts of speech and grammatical inflection — Chapter 4. Nouns and nominal inflection — Chapter 5. Noun modifiers — Chapter 6. Pronominal categories — Chapter 7. Verb inflection, modals and auxiliaries — Chapter 8. Local and temporal relations — Chapter 9. Clause structure — Chapter 10. Adverbs and particles — Chapter 11. The Arabic component — Chapter 12. Samples of Talk — Chapter 13. Notes on the Domari lexicon — Chapter 14. Domari vocabulary — Notes — References — Subject index — Author index

Editorial Reviews

"[...] the book is written in a clear and rich style which makes it easy to read. It will benefit everyone interested in language contact, Indo-Aryan languages, including students of Romani, and other ‘Gypsy’ languages. Also valuable to the field of grammaticography is the author’s efforts to put pragmatics at the centre of linguistic description."
Bruno Hérin in: Linguist List 24.1141

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