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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811505703321

Autore

Matras Yaron <1963->

Titolo

A grammar of Domari / / by Yaron Matras

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012

ISBN

1-283-85722-7

3-11-029142-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 464 pages)

Collana

Mouton grammar library ; ; 59

Disciplina

491.49

Soggetti

Domaaki language - Grammar

Indo-Aryan languages - Grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures. List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- Chapter 3. Parts of speech and grammatical inflection -- Chapter 4. Nouns and nominal inflection -- Chapter 5. Noun modifiers -- Chapter 6. Pronominal categories -- Chapter 7. Verb inflection, modals and auxiliaries -- Chapter 8. Local and temporal relations -- Chapter 9. Clause structure -- Chapter 10. Adverbs and particles -- Chapter 11. The Arabic component -- Chapter 12. Samples of Talk -- Chapter 13. Notes on the Domari lexicon -- Chapter 14. Domari vocabulary -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Author index

Sommario/riassunto

Domari is an Indo-Aryan language that is now highly endangered. Its speakers were traditionally nomadic metalworkers and musicians who lived in tiny, geographically scattered and socially isolated communities throughout the Middle East. The grammar is based on conversational material recorded in Jerusalem in the mid-1990s with some of the last speakers of this particular variety.