Abstract
Romani relies on finite integration of clauses. In complement clauses, it shows a split between factual and non-factual clauses. Early Romani - the ancestor of present-day Romani dialects - had undergone extensive convergence with the languages of the Balkans prior to the dispersion of the dialects, and the Balkan legacy is still apparent in the split between a factual and a non-factual complementiser. The paper introduces the elicitation methodology of the Romani Morphosyntactic (RMS) Database, and discusses how it can be applied to a crossdialectal interpretation of hierarchies and conceptual spaces representing complementation in the language.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Dialectology Meets Typology |
| Subtitle of host publication | Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Pages | 277-304 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783110197327 |
| ISBN (Print) | 3110179490, 9783110179491 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2004 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin. All rights reserved.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
- General Social Sciences