Yaron Matras
British linguist
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- PhD Linguistics University of Manchester
- Masters Linguistics University of Manchester
- Bachelors Linguistics University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Yaron Matras is a linguist at the University of Manchester specializing in Romani and other languages, including Middle Eastern languages. He is one of the most prominent English-language Romani linguists and the author of several pioneering studies, including a book on Romani: A Linguistic Introduction and on Romani in Britain: The afterlife of a language , and A Grammar of Domari . Matras organized the First International Conference on Romani Linguistics in 1993, and has served as Editor of the cross-disciplinary journal Romani Studies since 1999. He has coordinated the Romani Project at the University of Manchester since 1999, and in 2010 he launched the Multilingual Manchester project. His publications include a book on Language Contact and a co-edited trilogy on Mixed Languages, Linguistic Areas, and Grammatical Borrowing.
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Published Works
- Utterance modifiers and universals of grammatical borrowing (1998) (251)
- Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence (2007) (233)
- The mixed language debate : theoretical and empirical advances (2003) (202)
- Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective (2007) (199)
- Romani: A Linguistic Introduction (2002) (191)
- The borrowability of structural categories (2007) (123)
- Fusion and the cognitive basis for bilingual discourse markers (2000) (115)
- Types of loan: Matter and pattern (2007) (102)
- Romani migrations in the post‐communist era: Their historical and political significance (2000) (89)
- Prozedurale Fusion: Grammatische Interferenzschichten im Romanes (1996) (87)
- Contact, Convergence, and Typology (2010) (84)
- Mixed languages: A functional-communicative approach (2000) (84)
- Mixed languages as autonomous systems (2003) (73)
- Writing Romani: the pragmatics of codification in a stateless language (1999) (67)
- Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language (2010) (63)
- The role of language in mystifying and de-mystifying Gypsy identity (2004) (54)
- The Romani Gypsies (2015) (51)
- What lies beneath: Split (mixed) languages as contact phenomena (2003) (49)
- Kurdish linguistics: a brief overview (2002) (49)
- ‘Roma Education’ as a lucrative niche: ideologies and representations (2015) (47)
- Angloromani: A different kind of language? (2007) (46)
- Markedness And Language Change: The Romani Sample (2006) (45)
- Not quite the right mixture: Chamorro and Malti as candidates for the status of mixed language (2003) (44)
- Mixed languages and acts of identity: An evolutionary approach (2003) (42)
- The study of mixed languages (2003) (42)
- Linguistic Areas: Convergence in Historical and Typological Perspective (2006) (41)
- Transnational policy and ‘authenticity’ discourses on Romani language and identity (2015) (40)
- Can a mixed language be conventionalized alternational codeswitching (2003) (39)
- Social factors and linguistic processes in the emergence of stable mixed languages (2003) (38)
- Language contact and group identity: The role of "folk" linguistic engineering (2003) (33)
- Language Contact by Yaron Matras (2009) (33)
- The classification of Romani dialects: A geographic-historical perspective (2005) (33)
- Scholarship and the Politics of Romani Identity: Strategic and Conceptual Issues (2013) (33)
- The Romani Voice in World Politics: The United Nations and Non-State Actors (2007) (32)
- Mixed languages: re-examining the structural prototype (2003) (32)
- Empirical approaches to language typology (1987) (31)
- I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies (2014) (30)
- Borrowing (2020) (28)
- The Typology and Dialectology of Romani. (1997) (28)
- Contact languages.: A comprehensive guide. (2013) (27)
- Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures : Romanian Roma Migrants in Western Europe (2017) (27)
- Language Contact: Preface (2009) (27)
- Romani in contact. The history, structure and sociology of a language (1995) (24)
- The development of the Romani civil rights movement in Germany 1945-1996 (1998) (24)
- The linguistic properties of lexical manipulation and its relevance for Ma’á (2003) (23)
- Markedness and Language Change (2008) (23)
- Universals of structural borrowing (2011) (22)
- An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change (2012) (22)
- How predictable is contact-induced change in grammar? (2000) (22)
- Language contact, language endangerment, and the role of the 'salvation linguist' (2005) (22)
- Multilingualism in a post-industrial city: policy and practice in Manchester (2015) (21)
- The borrowability of grammatical categories (2007) (19)
- The state of present-day Domari in Jerusalem (1999) (19)
- Grammaticalisation and language contact (2011) (19)
- Why is the borrowing of inflectional morphology dispreferred (2015) (17)
- The Future of Romani:Toward a Policy of Linguistic Pluralism (2005) (17)
- Romani: Index of names (2002) (17)
- Grammatical relations in Romani: the noun phrase (2000) (17)
- A Grammar of Domari (2012) (16)
- Romacilikanes: The Romani dialect of Parakalamos (2004) (16)
- The Romani element in non-standard speech (1998) (16)
- Explaining convergence and the formation of linguistic areas. (2011) (15)
- Deixis and deictic oppositions in discourse: Evidence from Romani (1998) (15)
- The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact (2020) (15)
- Spoken Israeli Hebrew revisited: Structures and variation (2005) (14)
- Untersuchungen zu Grammatik und Diskurs des Romanes: Dialekt der Kelderasa/Lovara (Studies in Romani grammar and discourse: Kelderasa/Lovara) (1994) (14)
- Grammatical borrowing in Hup (2007) (13)
- Grammatical borrowing in Indonesian (2007) (13)
- Standardization beyond the state: The cases of Yiddish, Kurdish and Romani (1991) (13)
- Verb evidentials and their discourse function in Vlach Romani narratives (1995) (13)
- Contact, connectivity and language evolution (2007) (12)
- The spatial construction of civic identities: A study of Manchester's linguistic landscapes (2016) (12)
- ‘Parity of Participation’ and the Politics of Needs Interpretation: Engagement with Roma Migrants in Manchester (2017) (12)
- Two Domari legends about the origin of the Doms (2000) (11)
- Rudolph, Elisabeth. Contrast. Adversative and Concessive Expressions on Sentence and Text Level (1998) (11)
- Johann Rüdiger and the study of Romani in 18th century Germany (1999) (11)
- Mapping the Romani dialects of Romania (2013) (11)
- Roma populations and health inequalities: a new perspective (2019) (11)
- The status of Romani in Europe (2005) (11)
- The East European Gypsies. Regime Change, Marginality, and ethnopolitics/We Are the Romani People. Ame Sam E Rromane Dzene (2004) (10)
- Europe’s neo-traditional Roma policy: Marginality management and the inflation of expertise (2015) (10)
- Producing prejudice: The rhetoric of discourses in and around current films on Roma–Hungarian interethnic relations (2014) (9)
- Grammatical borrowing in Macedonian Turkish (2007) (9)
- Gypsies in Germany—German Gypsies? Identity and Politics of Sinti and Roma in Germany (2007) (9)
- Romani in Contact: The History, Structure and Sociology of a Language (1997) (9)
- Convergent development, grammaticalization, and the problem of ‘mutual isomorphism’ (1998) (9)
- Urban Multilingualism and the Civic University: A Dynamic, Non-Linear Model of Participatory Research (2017) (9)
- Languages in contact in a world marked by change and mobility (2013) (9)
- The speech of the Polska Roma. Some highlighted features and their implications for Romani dialectology (1999) (9)
- The structural and functional composition of Romani demonstratives (2000) (9)
- Clause combining, ergativity, and coreferent deletion in Kurmanji (1997) (9)
- Grammatical borrowing in Kurdish (Northern Group) (2007) (8)
- Layers of convergent syntax in Macedonian Turkish (2004) (8)
- A language of our own. The genesis of Michif, the mixed Cree-French language of the Canadian Métis: Peter Bakker (1999) (8)
- Structural Balkanisms in Romani (1994) (8)
- How open borders can unlock cultures: Concepts, methods and procedures. (2017) (8)
- Verb-subject order and theticity in European languages (1995) (7)
- Revisiting Kurdish dialect geography: Preliminary findings from the Manchester Database (2017) (7)
- Multilingual repertoire management and illocutionary functions in Yiddish signage in Manchester (2018) (7)
- Grammatical borrowing in Domari (2007) (7)
- Grammatical borrowing in Khuzistani Arabic (2007) (7)
- Community identity and mobilisation: Roma migrant experiences in Manchester (2017) (7)
- The typology of case relations and case layer distribution in Romani (1997) (7)
- The immigration of Romanian Roma to Western Europe: Causes, effects, and future engagement strategies (MigRom) Report on the extended survey (2015) (7)
- Expert Frames: Scientific and Policy Practices of Roma Classification. By Mihai Surdu. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2015, 267 pp., ISBN 978-963-386-113-4. (2015) (6)
- Modality in Romani. (2009) (6)
- A lost generation? Racialization and stalled social mobility in a group of Roma migrants in the UK (2019) (6)
- Para-Romani revisited (1998) (6)
- Brazilian Gypsiology A view from anthropology (2014) (6)
- Grammatical borrowing in Tasawaq (2007) (6)
- Multilingual Manchester: A Digest (2013) (6)
- Travellers and Their Language (2005) (5)
- Grammatical borrowing in Katanga Swahili (2007) (5)
- Arabic grammatical borrowing in Western Neo-Aramaic (2007) (5)
- Grammatical borrowing in Kildin Saami (2007) (5)
- Non-Standard and Minority Varieties as Community Languages in the UK: Towards a New Strategy for Language Maintenance (2020) (5)
- Kurmanji complementation: Semantic-typological aspects in an areal perspective (2002) (5)
- Grammatical borrowing in Nahuatl (2007) (5)
- Connective (VS) word order in Romani (1995) (5)
- Low German : (East Frisian dialect) (2003) (5)
- Bibliography of Modern Romani Linguistics: Including a guide to Romani linguistics (2003) (5)
- Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] (2012) (5)
- The function and typology of coordinating conjunctions: evidence from discourse and language-contact situations (1997) (5)
- Attitudes to the language and identity of Romanian Roma migrants in a UK school setting (2020) (5)
- Grammatical borrowing in Rapanui (2007) (5)
- Sino-Vietnamese grammatical borrowing: An overview (2007) (5)
- Language provisions in access to primary and hospital care in central Manchester (2016) (5)
- Bibliography of modern Romani linguistics (2003) (5)
- s/h alternation in Romani: An historical and functional interpretation (1999) (4)
- Grammatical borrowing in Hungarian Rumungro (2007) (4)
- Variation and dialect levelling in the Romani dialect of Ţăndărei (2017) (4)
- What languages are spoken in England and Wales (2013) (4)
- Using the school setting to map community languages: a pilot study in Manchester, England (2016) (4)
- Grammatical borrowing in North-eastern Neo-Aramaic (2007) (4)
- The full extent of fusion: A test case for connectivity and language contact. (2005) (4)
- Deixis and anaphora: Some case studies (2006) (4)
- Orthography development on the Internet: Romani on YouTube (2017) (4)
- Modelling contact-induced change in grammar (2008) (4)
- Romani in Britain (2010) (4)
- RCP, the Experimental Packet-Switched Data Transmission Service of the French PTT: History, Connections, Control (1976) (4)
- The Romani community of Gorton South (2009) (4)
- Subject Clitics in Sinti (1999) (4)
- Who can and cannot speak English (2013) (3)
- Defining the position of ‘community’ in the study of linguistic landscapes (2020) (3)
- Tense, aspect and modality categories in Romani (2001) (3)
- Language Contact (2020) (3)
- Ergativity in Kurmanji (1992) (3)
- Defining the limits of grammatical borrowing. (2009) (3)
- Duly verified? Language analysis in UK asylum applications of Syrian refugees (2018) (3)
- Fundamental Choices in the Development of RCP, the Experimental Packet-Switched Data Transmission Service of the French PTT (1976) (3)
- Grammatical borrowing in Yaqui (2007) (3)
- Mapping community language skills: The School language survey in Manchester (2013) (3)
- Loanwords in the world's languages: A comparative handbook (review) (2012) (2)
- The Romani Morpho-Syntax ( RMS ) Database (2008) (2)
- Romani Syntactic Typology (2019) (2)
- Romani: List of abbreviations (2002) (2)
- Romani and Contact Linguistics (2019) (2)
- Defining typical features of minor languages (with special reference to Domari) (2003) (2)
- Grammatical borrowing in Manange (2007) (2)
- Zur Rekonstruktion des jüdisch-deutschen Wortschatzes in den Mundarten ehemaliger "Judendörfer" in Südwestdeutschland (1991) (2)
- Ergativity in Kurmanji (Kurdish). Notes on its use and distribution. (1988) (1)
- Migrations and 'replacive convergence' as sources of diversity in the dialects of Romani (2000) (1)
- Shaping policy and practice through co-production: MigRom engagement with Romanian Roma and the ‘Manchester Model’ (2018) (1)
- Problems arising with the international mobility of the Roma (Gypsies) in Europe (1996) (1)
- Language Contact: Crossing the boundaries: codeswitching in conversation (2009) (1)
- Review of Doron, Hovav, Reshef & Taube (2019): Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew (2021) (1)
- Review article A conflict of paradigms (2004) (1)
- Re-visiting ‘community language: Arabic in a Western global city (2020) (1)
- The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics (2020) (1)
- Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase. with a Foreword by Frans Plank (Universität Konstanz) (2000) (1)
- Signage as event (2020) (1)
- Mosetén borrowing from Spanish (2007) (1)
- Sinti, Roma, Gypsies (2004) (1)
- New Soviet Gypsies: Nationality, performance, and selfhood in the early Soviet Union by Brigid O’Keeffe (review) (2014) (1)
- Use and misuse of data on Roma: A comment on the Salford on Roma migrants (2015) (1)
- The typology of case and case layer distribution in Romani (1997) (1)
- Using smartphones to document linguistic landscapes: the LinguaSnapp mobile app (2019) (1)
- Romani: Romani sociolinguistics (2002) (1)
- The recent emigration of Roma from the Czech and Slovak Republics (1998) (1)
- The Roma Struggle for Compensation in Post-War Germany (review) (2012) (1)
- Grammatical borrowing in K abeena (2007) (1)
- Can global cities have a language policy (2017) (1)
- Recent grammatical borrowing into an Australian Aboriginal language: The case of Jaminjung and Kriol (2007) (1)
- Functions of a particle in two European minority languages: Nu/no in Yiddish and Romani. (2016) (1)
- The Multilingual Manchester research model: An integrated approach to urban language diversity (2018) (1)
- ESOL at Manchester Adult Education Service (MAES): Experiences of entry 3 and level 1 learners. (2018) (1)
- Scandoromani: Remnants of a mixed language by Gerd Carling, Lenny Lindell, Gilbert Ambrazaitis (review) (2015) (1)
- Back to Motivations: Between Discourse and Grammar. (2000) (1)
- The RMS Database and web resource. (2009) (1)
- Theorizing Language Contact (2020) (1)
- Complementizers in Romani (2016) (1)
- 3. Customs and Traditions (2015) (1)
- Probleme und Chancen der Verschriftung der Sprache der Roma und Sinti (1997) (1)
- Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani (2004) (1)
- Social networks as centres of language codification : Romani on YouTube (2013) (1)
- Zur stilistischen Funktion der Sondersprache Lekoudesch in südwestdeutschen Erzählungen. (The stylistic function of the special language Lekoudesch in narratives in southwest German dialect) (1997) (1)
- Der Gitanismo Im Spanischen Argot (2006) (1)
- Schriftliche Lehrmittel in Romanes: ein Beispiel von Sprachplanung in einer Minderheiten-sprache (1997) (1)
- From Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society to Romani Studies: Purpose and essence of a modern academic platform (2017) (1)
- Sondersprachliche Hebraismen. Am Beispiel der südwestdeutschen Viehhändlersprache (1996) (0)
- Actors’ discourses on language supplementary schools: diaspora practices and emerging ideologies (2022) (0)
- Romani: Nominal forms and categories (2002) (0)
- Chapter 10. Adverbs and particles (2012) (0)
- Chapter 3. Parts of speech and grammatical inflection (2012) (0)
- El futuro del romanó: hacia una política de pluralismo lingüístico (2005) (0)
- Chapter 13. Notes on the Domari lexicon (2012) (0)
- entries on Romani and Domari (2006) (0)
- Yiddish as a repertoire (2009) (0)
- Language Contact: An emerging multilingual repertoire (2009) (0)
- Grammatical borrowing in Biak (2007) (0)
- Romani in Britain: The Conversational Functions of Angloromani (2010) (0)
- Language Contact: Notes (2009) (0)
- Chapter 2. Phonology (2012) (0)
- Book Review (1993) (0)
- Chapter 12. Samples of Talk (2012) (0)
- Grammatical borrowing in Yiddish (2007) (0)
- Eine Kontrastsprache? Sprachliche Hybridität im Romani (2013) (0)
- Chapter 11. The Arabic component (2012) (0)
- Languages and geography index (2013) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Chapter 9. Clause structure (2012) (0)
- Chapter 6. Pronominal categories (2012) (0)
- Romani: Romani dialects: a brief overview (2002) (0)
- Grammatical borrowing in Likpe (Sɛkpɛlé) (2007) (0)
- entry on ?Gypsies, Arabic of? (2006) (0)
- The functional and structural composition of Romani demonstratives (2000) (0)
- Romani self-appellations in a linguistic perspective (2019) (0)
- Romani self-appellations in a linguistic perspective (2019) (0)
- On two recent publications on areal linguistics (2008) (0)
- Book Review: A language of our own. The genesis of Michif, the mixed Cree-French language of the Canadian Métis Peter Bakker (1997) (1999) (0)
- List of figures. List of abbreviations (2012) (0)
- Chapters on Consonant Features und Morphology (1992) (0)
- 5. The Roms among the Nations (2015) (0)
- Language Contact: Lexical borrowing (2009) (0)
- Rüdiger’s contribution to the study of Romani origins (1999) (0)
- The Conversational Functions of Angloromani (2010) (0)
- Durk Gorier, Jarich F. Hoekstra, Lammert G. Jansma, & Jehannes Ytsma (eds.), Fourth international conference on minority languages. Volume II: Western and Eastern European papers . Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1990. Pp. ix + 197. (1992) (0)
- Why plans for a European Roma Institute might be a setback for Europe’s Roma (2015) (0)
- 'Gypsies, Arabic of' (2006) (0)
- Gilad Margalit, 1959–2014 (2014) (0)
- On two recent publications on areal linguistics: 2003 (2003) (0)
- Die Sprache der Roma: ein historischer Umriss (The Romani language: An historical overview) (2004) (0)
- Mehrsprachigkeit in Manchester (England): Eine Fallstudie zu urbaner Superdiversität (2015) (0)
- Romani: Verb morphology (2002) (0)
- The Structural Composition of Angloromani (2010) (0)
- Language Contact: Grammatical and phonological borrowing (2009) (0)
- Romani: Historical and linguistic origins (2002) (0)
- Review of “Die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen den Südbalkanischen Romani-Dialekten” by Norbert Boretzky (2002) (0)
- Language Contact: References (2009) (0)
- Romani: Grammatical borrowing (2002) (0)
- Lekoudesch: Die Sprache als Erinnerung (1988) (0)
- The Roots of Romani (2010) (0)
- Back to motivations: between discourse and grammar. Reply to peer commentaries (2000) (0)
- Language Contact: The replication of linguistic ‘matter’ (2009) (0)
- Process, tools and agendas in LADO (2022) (0)
- Romani: List of tables (2002) (0)
- Romani: Descriptive phonology (2002) (0)
- Interventions to support Europe’s Roma populations risk creating new forms of segregation (2014) (0)
- | Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures | Taylor & Francis Group (2017) (0)
- Obituary (1983) (0)
- 4. The Romani Language (2015) (0)
- The state of Kurdish linguistics (2001) (0)
- Repertoire management and the performative origin of Mixed Languages (0)
- Language Contact: Societal multilingualism (2009) (0)
- Sprachplanung und Spracheinstellung im Romanes (1999) (0)
- 13. Borrowing (2019) (0)
- Conclusions: The Decline, Death and Afterlife of a Language (2010) (0)
- Introduction to The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact (2020) (0)
- Migrations and their impact on the Romani political movement in the early 1990s. (2010) (0)
- Sinti, Roma, Gypsies : Sprache-- Geschichte-- Gegenwart (2003) (0)
- Contact-induced change in Jerusalem Domari (2019) (0)
- Minority rights protection in international law. The Roma of Europe, and: Who speaks for Roma? Political representation of a transnational minority community (review) (2010) (0)
- A grammar of Low German (East Frisian variety) (2003) (0)
- Romani: Dialect classification (2002) (0)
- Lekoudesch: Integration jiddischer Wörter in die Mundart von Rexingen bei Horb. Mit vergleichbarem Material aus Buttenhausen bei Münsingen. (1988) (0)
- The challenges of language codification in a transnational context. (2007) (0)
- Umberto Ansaldo, Contact languages. Ecology and evolution in Asia . (2015) (0)
- Deixis and deictic functions (2006) (0)
- The Standardization of a Stateless Language (2021) (0)
- Sprachtheorie und sprachliches Handeln (Linguistic theory and speech action) (1999) (0)
- The Historical Position of British Romani (2010) (0)
- Obituary: Gilad Margalit, 1959-2014 (2014) (0)
- Chapter 8. Local and temporal relations (2012) (0)
- 7. A Modern Romani Identity (2015) (0)
- OBITUARIES: Aparna Rao (2005) (0)
- Chapter 5. Noun modifiers (2012) (0)
- Language Contact: Contact languages (2009) (0)
- Language Contact: Converging structures: pattern replication (2009) (0)
- Chapter 14. Domari vocabulary (2012) (0)
- Roma-Zigeunerkulturen in neuen Perspektiven. Romani/Gypsy cultures in new perspectives (review) (2010) (0)
- The Routledge handbook of language and superdiversity. AngelaCreese, and AdrianBlackledge (Eds). New York/London: Routledge. 2018. xlv + 536 pp. Hardback (9781138905092) 152 GBP, Paperback (9780367783969) 31.99 GBP, Ebook (9781315696010) 31.99 GBP (2022) (0)
- Jekh duj trin ... romanes (Romani reader) (1996) (0)
- Chapter 7. Verb inflection, modals and auxiliaries (2012) (0)
- 1. Who Are the Romani People (2015) (0)
- Chapter 4. Nouns and nominal inflection (2012) (0)
- Die Vlach-Dialekte des Romani. Strukturen - Sprachgeschichte - Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse - Dialektkarten (Book) (2004) (0)
- 6. Between Romanticism and Racism (2015) (0)
- Appendix: The Mosaic of Romani Groups (2015) (0)
- 2. Romani Society (2015) (0)
- Language Contact: Acquiring and maintaining a bilingual repertoire (2009) (0)
- Romani self-appellations in a linguistic perspective: A reply to Leonardo Piasere (2019) (0)
- Roma language and Roma culture (2015) (0)
- Romani: Language planning and codification (2002) (0)
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