Morphosyntactic typology of Romani: Database enhancement

Title
  • Morphosyntactic typology of Romani: Database enhancement [Electronic resource]
  • RMS Database
Author

Matras, Yaron; Elsík, Viktor
Availability This resource is freely available, you should be able to download it now.
Languages

English; Romani
Editorial Practice

Encoding format: FilemakerPro 6
OTA keywords Linguistic corpora
LC keywords

Linguistics
Romany language
Dialectology
Languages in contact
Typology (Linguistics)
Extent
  • designation: Text data
  • size: 3 files: ca. 12 mb
Creation Date 2004
Source Description

Notes

Mode of access: Offline. Application to OTA

Title proper taken from AHDS Catalogue Form

The resource contains grammatical descriptions of around 100 varieties of Romani. The description is organised by chapters following standard grammatical outlines. Chapters include questions, and data are arranged in data fields (text fields containing examples), and analytical fields (pre-defined value lists).

Matras, Yaron. 2001. Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani. Language Typology and Universals (STUF) 53-4, 162-180.

Elsik, Viktor and Matras, Yaron. in press. Markedness and language change: The Romani sample. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.