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Publication details [#46609]
Matras, Yaron and Viktor Elsik. 2006. Markedness and Language Change. The Romani Sample. (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 32). De Gruyter. XXIII+475 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This book thoroughly surveys markedness relations across different grammatical categories, in a sample of more than 100 closely-related Romani dialects. It employs a typological perspective, yet introduces a functional-pragmatic markedness notion, as a grammaticalised strategy used to priositise information.