Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani

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.