Norbert Boretzky
List of John Benjamins publications for which Norbert Boretzky plays a role.
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2000. The definite article in Romani dialects. Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase, Elšík, Viktor and Yaron Matras (eds.), pp. 31 ff.
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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 ff.
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1995. Interdialectal interference inn Romani. Romani in Contact: The history, structure and sociology of a language, Matras, Yaron (ed.), pp. 69 ff.
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1991. Contact-Induced Sound Change. Diachronica 8:1, pp. 1–15
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 | Article
1984. The Indo-Europeanist Model of Sound Change and Genetic Affinity, and Change in Exotic Languages. Diachronica 1:1, pp. 1–51
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 | Article