Replicating Spanish estar in Mexican Romani

Adamou, Evangelia

doi:10.1515/ling-2013-0045

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“…At the end of the Byzantine era, some groups migrated toward western and northern Europe and influences on Romani from additional contact languages began. Today Romani is spoken in several European countries as well as in the Americas (Adamou 2013), in Asia and in Australia, showing substantial dialectal variation.…”

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Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane

Adamou¹,

Arvaniti²

2014

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Romani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in several European countries as well as in the Americas, Asia and Australia, showing substantial dialectal variation. This illustration deals with Xoraxane Romane (Turkish Romani) spoken in Greek Thrace. Xoraxane Romane, which belongs to the Vlax branch of Romani, has been heavily influenced by contact with Turkish and also shows influences from Greek. As a result, Xoraxane Romane exhibits a mixed system that includes phonemes borrowed from both Turkish and Greek but without exhibiting complex phonological phenomena such as Turkish vowel harmony.

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Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane

Adamou¹,

Arvaniti²

2014

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…Tenser's (2016) discussion of semantic map borrowing in Northeastern Romani dialects is perhaps an isolated study of a syntactic-typological topic in a particular dialect group. In addition, consideration is given to syntactic-typological categories in a number of descriptive studies of individual dialects that have followed Matras (2002), among them Tenser (2005) on Lithuanian Romani and Tenser (2008) on the Northeastern dialects, Leggio (2011) on Mitrovica Romani, Arvaniti and Adamou (2011) and Adamou (2016) on Greek Thrace Romani, Adamou (2013) on Mexican Vlax, Bodnárová (2015) onVend Romani, Leggio and Matras (2017) on Kangljari Romani, and Benišek (2017) on a North Central Romani 'diaspora' variety spoken in Ukraine.…”

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Romani Syntactic Typology

Adamou¹,

Matras²

2019

The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics

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This chapter presents an overview of the principal syntactic-typological features of Romani dialects. It draws on the discussion in Matras (2002, chapter 7) while taking into consideration more recent studies. In particular, we draw on the wealth of morphosyntactic data that have since become available via the Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) database.1 The RMS data are based on responses to the Romani Morpho-Syntax questionnaire recorded from Romani speaking communities across Europe and beyond. We try to take into account a representative sample. We also take into consideration data from free-speech recordings available in the RMS database and the Pangloss Collection. In addition, our chapter is informed by universal studies in syntactic typology, as represented by the entries of the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), and other selected typological work. Matras (2002, chapter 7) covers in comparative perspective prominent features of Romani syntactic typology, including linear order in the noun phrase, constituent order in the verb phrase, possession and external possession, and complex clauses. Since then, only a small number of studies have considered specific topics in Romani syntactic typology in comparative perspective: Elšík and Matras (2006) devote chapters to 'A big dog frightens the children.'

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“…Moreover, Adamou (2013) shows that Mexican Romani has been rendered more complex by copying the Spanish copula variation and concludes that convergence of the two grammars is ultimately simplifying matters for bilinguals. Geeslin and Guijarro-Fuentes (2008: 376) acknowledge that the role of copula choice in the contact languages needs to be further examined.…”

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“…The influence of Spanish estar on the Romani grammar is not restricted to the attributive clauses; the subject clitics have equally replicated the uses of estar in locative predications and in constructions with participles(Adamou 2013(Adamou : 1075(Adamou -1076.The clitic pronouns inflect for gender and number, lo masculine singular, la feminine singular, and le plural. They are dubbed clitics because their position in the clause is not fixed,…”

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Do bilinguals generalizeestarmore than monolinguals and what is the role of conceptual transfer?

Adamou

Pascale

García-Márkina³

et al. 2018

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Among the questions that remain open is whether bilingualism leads to simplification of alternatives in language in order to reduce cognitive load. This hypothesis has been supported by evidence showing that bilinguals generalize the Spanish copula estar ‘to be’ faster than monolinguals. Yet, other studies found no such clear trend. While conceptual transfer could account for the conflicting evidence in the literature, its role has not been demonstrated. Our study aims to fill this gap by testing simplification in Spanish copula choice among bilinguals and, in particular, the role of transfer. Design/methodology/approach: We used a contextualized copula choice task, comprising 28 sentences. Data and analysis: Sixty Romani–Spanish bilinguals from Mexico responded to the questionnaire in both Spanish and Romani. A control group of 62 Mexican Spanish monolinguals responded in Spanish. We constructed generalized linear mixed-effects models to analyse the results. Findings/conclusions: Analysis of the results reveals greater extension of estar among bilinguals for individual-level predicates as well as for traits not susceptible to change. Comparison of the responses of bilinguals (in Romani and in Spanish) and of Spanish monolinguals indicates that Romani could be reinforcing the generalization of estar in the Spanish responses of bilinguals. Originality: To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine copula choice in bilingual mode. In addition, it brings evidence from an under-researched community with little normative pressure. Significance/implications: Our study shows that conceptual transfer may be driving the extension of estar among bilinguals.

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Replicating Spanish estar in Mexican Romani

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane

Greek Thrace Xoraxane Romane

Romani Syntactic Typology

Do bilinguals generalizeestarmore than monolinguals and what is the role of conceptual transfer?

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