Mixed languages2 are the result of the fusion of two identifiable source languages, normally
in situations of community bilingualism. As recently as the 1990s, the existence of these …

All languages borrow words from other languages. Some languages are more prone to
borrowing, while others borrow less, and different domains of the vocabulary are unequally …

The chapter covers the major issues in Romani dialectology. After a brief discussion of the
extent and parameters of cross-dialect variation in Romani, we present an overview of …

This study reports on language mixing in two Romani communities, with a century-long
presence in Finland and in Greece respectively. A quantitative analysis of free-speech data …

Feature stability, time and tempo of change, and the role of genealogy versus areality in
creating linguistic diversity are important issues in current computational research on …

Evangelia Adamou is Senior Researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research in
France (CNRS). She specialises in the analysis of under-described languages with a focus …

Para-Romani is a generic term for a set of contact varieties, in which most of the lexicon is
from Romani, but most of the grammatical system is from another language. Thus, PR …

This paper investigates iconicity as a possible driving force behind the rebuilding of deictic
systems and forms in individual languages. A comparison of a reconstructed Proto-Indo …

This chapter discusses the first written attestations of Romani language, from the
Collectanea of Johannes ex Graffing (1515) to the publication of Pott's Die Zigeuner in …

Based on a large dataset of Russian material, the paper presents these general features of
the home: a place to spend leisure time containing a long-established group of different …