Norbert Boretzky
List of John Benjamins publications in which Norbert Boretzky is involved.
2000 The definite article in Romani dialects Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 31–64 | Article
1997 Suppletive forms of the Romani copula: ‘ovel/avel’ The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 107–132 | Article
1995 Interdialectal interference inn Romani Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language, Matras, Yaron (ed.), pp. 69–94 | Article
1991 Contact-Induced Sound Change Diachronica 8:1, pp. 1–15 | Article
SUMMARY Sound interference can manifest itself either in the modification of sounds under foreign influence or in the transfer of new sounds together with loan-words, and even in the transfer not of sounds, but of sound change triggered by a foreign language; i.e., the sound change is carried out… read more
1984 The Indo-Europeanist Model of Sound Change and Genetic Affinity, and Change in Exotic Languages Diachronica 1:1, pp. 1–51 | Article
SUMMARY Though, in European language families, sound change is for the most part governed by rules that can be precisely formulated, several exotic groups (as, for instance, the Arantic family of Australia and the Papuan Kate group examined here) appear to behave differently. At least, this… read more