A Grammar of Domari
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2012
Book
Hardback
XVI, 464 pages
978-3-11-028914-5 (ISBN)
Description
Domari is an Indo-Aryan language that is now highly endangered. Its speakers were traditionally nomadic metalworkers and musicians who lived in tiny, geographically scattered and socially isolated communities throughout the Middle East. The grammar is based on conversational material recorded in Jerusalem in the mid-1990s with some of the last speakers of this particular variety.
Reviews / Votes
"[...] the book is written in a clear and rich style which makes it easy to read. It will benefit everyone interested in language contact, Indo-Aryan languages, including students of Romani, and other 'Gypsy' languages. Also valuable to the field of grammaticography is the author's efforts to put pragmatics at the centre of linguistic description."Bruno Hérin in: Linguist List 24.1141More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
986 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-028914-5 (9783110289145)
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Content
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures. List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- Chapter 3. Parts of speech and grammatical inflection -- Chapter 4. Nouns and nominal inflection -- Chapter 5. Noun modifiers -- Chapter 6. Pronominal categories -- Chapter 7. Verb inflection, modals and auxiliaries -- Chapter 8. Local and temporal relations -- Chapter 9. Clause structure -- Chapter 10. Adverbs and particles -- Chapter 11. The Arabic component -- Chapter 12. Samples of Talk -- Chapter 13. Notes on the Domari lexicon -- Chapter 14. Domari vocabulary -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Author index