Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community
Edited by Leonie Gaiser and Yaron Matras
Special issue of Linguistic Landscape 6:2 (2020) v, 128 pp.
Yaron Matras
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yaron Matras is involved.
Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics: Including a guide to Romani linguistics
Compiled by Peter Bakker and Yaron Matras
The interest in Romani, the language of the Roma or "Gypsies", has grown considerably in recent years. Romani has drawn attention from a.o. grammarians, sociolinguists, Indologists, language contact researchers, language planners, educators, typologists and historical linguists.This Indic language… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 28] 2003. xxviii, 366 pp.
Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase. with a Foreword by Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz)
Edited by Viktor Elšík and Yaron Matras
This is the first typologically-oriented collection on Romani that is devoted to a particular thematic domain — that of noun phrase grammar. The approach taken is unique in that it places this typologically hybrid language in the centre of a general linguistic, universal discussion of the relevant… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 211] 2000. x, 245 pp.
The Typology and Dialectology of Romani
Edited by Yaron Matras, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov
Contributions to this collection focus on the unity and diversity of the language of the Roma (Gypsies), the only Indic language spoken exclusively in Europe. Properties discussed include the distinct inflectional and derivational patterns applied to Asian and European lexical layers, the… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 156] 1997. xxxii, 223 pp.
Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language
Edited by Yaron Matras
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… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 126] 1995. xvii, 208 pp.
2024 Review of Aboh & Vigouroux (2021): Variation rolls the dice. A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene Australian Contact Languages, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Denise Angelo and Jane Simpson (eds.), pp. 293–301 | Review
2020 Defining the position of ‘community’ in the study of linguistic landscapes Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community, Gaiser, Leonie and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 109–127 | Article
This special issue explores how multilingual (and semiotic) landscapes relate to constructions of community. With the present introduction we aim to embed theoretical notions of ‘community’ into the study of Linguistic Landscapes (henceforth LL). We first discuss how the notion of ‘community’… read more
2020 Signage as event: Deriving ‘community’ from language practice Multilingual Landscapes and the Construction of Community, Gaiser, Leonie and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 213–236 | Article
Our aim in this paper is to propose a framework to analyse the relationship between language choice on signs in multilingual environments, place, and notions of ‘community’. We focus on an interpretation of the goals pursued by sign owners, exploring how linguistic (and non-linguistic) resources… read more
2015 Review of Ansaldo (2009): Contact languages. Ecology and evolution in Asia Contrasting contrastive approaches, Defrancq, Bart (ed.), pp. 151–154 | Review
2011 Explaining Convergence and the Formation of Linguistic Areas Geographical Typology and Linguistic Areas: With special reference to Africa, Hieda, Osamu, Christa König and Hiroshi Nakagawa (eds.), pp. 143–160 | Article
2010 Language contact Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives, Fried, Mirjam, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 203–214 | Article
2007 Contact, connectivity and language evolution Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch (eds.), pp. 51–74 | Article
This paper is concerned firstly with introducing a preliminary sketch of a function-oriented theory of language contact. Second, it will address the position of connectivity devices as mental or cognitive operations, which constitute part of the bilingual’s communicative activity. From the… read more
2007 Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence Studies in Language 31:4, pp. 829–865 | Article
The replication of concrete formal-structural material (morpho-phonological forms with attached meanings) from one language in another is universally understood to instantiate grammatical and lexical ‘borrowing’ (we follow mainstream usage here and attach no value judgement to the word ‘borrowing’… read more
2003 Language contact Handbook of Pragmatics: 2001 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2000 The structural and functional composition of Romani demonstratives Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 95–122 | Article
1997 Introduction The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. vii–xxx | Miscellaneous
1997 Clause Combining, Ergativity, and Coreferent Deletion in Kurmanji Studies in Language 21:3, pp. 613–653 | Article
A distinction is commonly made between morphological or surface ergativity, and syntactic or deep ergativity, based on what Dixon has termed the "pivot" behavior (S/A vs. S/O) of a language. Since marked constructions enable an S/A pivot to function even in some deep ergative languages, deep or… read more
1997 The typology of case relations and case layer distribution in Romani The Typology and Dialectology of Romani, Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.), pp. 61–94 | Article
1995 Introduction Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language, Matras, Yaron (ed.), pp. ix–xvii | Miscellaneous
1995 Verb evidentials and their discourse function inn Vlach Romani narratives Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language, Matras, Yaron (ed.), pp. 95–124 | Article