Prof Yaron Matras - publications

Authored book

• Matras, Y. A grammar of Domari. Mouton Grammar Library. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2012. eScholarID:4b928
• Matras, Yaron. The Romani Gypsies. London: Penguin, 2012. eScholarID:135610
• Matras, Y. Romani in Britain. The afterlife of a language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press., 2010. eScholarID:4b1815
• Matras, Y. Language contact. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., 2009. eScholarID:4b1816
• Matras, Y., Elšík, V. Markedness and language change: the Romani Sample. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. eScholarID:4b870
• Matras, Y., Gertrud Reershemius. A grammar of Low German (East Frisian variety). Munich: Lincoln-Europa, 2003. eScholarID:4b869
• Matras, Y. Romani: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. eScholarID:4b868
• Matras, Y., Peter Bakker et al. What is the Romani language?. University of Hertfordshire Press, 2000. eScholarID:4b927
• Matras, Y. Untersuchungen zu Grammatik und Diskurs des Romanes: Dialekt der Kelderasa/Lovara (Studies in Romani grammar and discourse: Kelderasa/Lovara). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994. eScholarID:4b926
• Matras, Y. Roma und Cinti in Hamburg. Hamburg: Senats der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, 1992. eScholarID:129467
• Matras, Y. Lehrbuch der Hebräischen Umgangssprache. [A textbook of Colloquial Hebrew]. Arbeitspapiere der Tübinger Ethnolinguistik II. Tübingen: Seminar für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft., 1986. eScholarID:129469

Edited book

• Matras, Y., Jeanette Sakel. Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2007. eScholarID:4b886
• Matras, Y., April McMahon, Vincent, N. ed. Linguistic areas. Houndmills: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006. eScholarID:4b930
• Matras, Y., Hans Winterberg, Michael Zimmermann. Sinti, Roma, Gypsies. Berlin: Metropol, 2004. eScholarID:4b931
• Matras, Y., Peter Bakker. Bibliography of modern Romani linguistics. Benjamins, 2003. eScholarID:4b933
• Matras, Y., Peter Bakker. The mixed language debate. Theoretical and empirical advances. Edited by Bakker, P. & Matras, Y. , Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. eScholarID:4b932
• Matras, Y., Geoffrey Haig. Kurdish linguistics. Special Issue of 'Language Typology and Universals 55-1, 2002. eScholarID:4b934
• Matras, Y., Elšík, V. Grammatical relations in Romani: the noun phrase. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2000. eScholarID:4b935
• Matras, Y., Bührig, K. Sprachtheorie und sprachliches Handeln (Linguistic theory and speech action). Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1999. eScholarID:4b936
• Matras, Y. The Romani element in non-standard speech. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. eScholarID:4b937
• Matras, Y., Peter Bakker, Hristo Kyuchukov. The typology and dialectology of Romani. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997. eScholarID:4b938
• Matras, Y. Jekh duj trin ... romanes (Romani reader). Hamburg: Verlag für pädagogische Medien, 1996. eScholarID:4b939
• Matras, Y. Romani in contact. The history, structure and sociology of a language. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995. eScholarID:4b941
• Matras, Y., Sasse, H.-J. Verb-subject order and theticity in European languages. 48, Berlin: Akademie, 1995. eScholarID:4b940
• Matras, Y. Contact languages. Edited by with Peter Bakker. , Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, eScholarID:4b1817

Book contribution

• Matras, Yaron. "Domari." In Indo-Iranian languages, ed. Rusakov, Alexander & Kibrik, Andrej, Moscow: Academy of Sciences, 2012. eScholarID:135614
• Matras, Yaron. "An activity-oriented approach to contact-induced language change." In Dynamics of contact-induced chang, ed. Leglise, Isabelle; Chamoreau, Claudine, 1-28. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011. eScholarID:135609
• Matras, Yaron. "Explaining convergence and the formation of linguistic areas." In Geographical typology and linguistic areas, ed. Hieda, Osamu, König, Christa, Nakagawa, Hirosi., 143-160. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. eScholarID:135597
• Matas, Yaron. "Grammaticalisation and language contact." In Handbook of grammaticalisation, ed. Narrog, Heiko, & Heine, Bernd, 279-290. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. eScholarID:135598
• Matras, Yaron. "Universals of structural borrowing." In Linguistic universals and language variation, ed. Siemund, Peter, 200-229. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011. eScholarID:135599
• Matras, Y. "Defining the limits of grammatical borrowing." In The Indo-European language family: Questions about its status, ed. Marcantonio, Angela., 2009. eScholarID:3b3863
• Matras, Y., Elsik, V. "Modality in Romani." In Modality in European languages, ed. Hansen, B., de Haan, F., 267-324. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. eScholarID:3b3861
• Matras, Y. "The RMS Database and web resource." In Linguistic databases, ed. Everaert, Martin & Musgrave, Simon., 329-362..Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter., 2009. eScholarID:3b3862
• Matras, Y., Jeanette Sakel. "Modelling contact-induced change in grammar." In Aspects of language contact, ed. Stolz, Thomas, Bakker, Dik, Salas Palomo, Rosa, 63-87. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. eScholarID:3b3030
• Matras, Y. "Contact, connectivity and language evolution." In Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, ed. Rehbein, Jochen, Hohenstein, Christiane & Pietsch, Lukas. eds, 51-74.John Benjamins, 2007. eScholarID:3b3031
• Matras, Y. "Grammatical borrowing in Domari." In Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective, ed. Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds, 151-164. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. eScholarID:3b3033
• Matras, Y., Maryam Shabibi. "Grammatical borrowing in Khuzistani Arabic." In Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective, ed. Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds, 134-149. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. eScholarID:3b3034
• Matras, Y., Şirin Tufan. "Grammatical borrowing in Macedonian Turkish." In Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective, ed. Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds, 215-227. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. eScholarID:3b3035
• Matras, Y., Gilad Margalit. "Gypsies in Germany – German Gypsies? Identity and politics of Sinti and Roma in Germany." In The Roma: A minority in Europe. Historical, social and cultural perspectives, ed. Stauber, Roni & Vago, Raphael, eds., 61-82. Oxford: Berghahn, 2007. eScholarID:3b3036
• Matras, Y. "The borrowability of grammatical categories." In Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective, ed. Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds, 31-74. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. eScholarID:3b3032
• Matras, Y. "The challenges of language codification in a transnational context." In Standard e non standard tra scelta e norma. Atti del XXX congresso della Società Italiana di Glottologia, ed. Molinelli, Piera, with Giuliano Bernini, Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Ada Valentini., 43-54..Roma: Il Calamo., 2007. eScholarID:3b3864
• Matras, Y., Machtelt Bolkestein. "Deixis and deictic functions." In The pragmatic organisation of discourse, ed. Bernini, Giuliano. ed., Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2006. eScholarID:3b3037
• Matras, Y. "'Gypsies, Arabic of'." In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, ed. Versteegh, Kees, Leiden: Brill, 2006. eScholarID:129462
• Matras, Y. "entries on Romani and Domari." In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Second edition, Oxford: Elsevier, 2006. eScholarID:3b3038
• Matras, Y. "entry on ‘Gypsies, Arabic of’." In Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, ed. Versteegh, Kees, Leiden: Brill, 2006. eScholarID:3b3039
• Matras, Y. "Language contact, language endangerment, and the role of the 'salvation linguist'." In Language documentation and description, Volume 3, ed. Austin, Peter K., 225-251..London: Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, 2005. eScholarID:3b3865
• Matras, Y. "The classification of Romani dialects: A geographic-historical perspective." In General and applied Romani linguistics, ed. Halwachs, D. & Schrammel, Barbara, Ambrosch, Gerd. eds., 7 - 26. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2005. eScholarID:3b1586
• Matras, Y. "The full extent of fusion: A test case for connectivity and language contact." In Kulturelle und sprachliche Kontakte: Prozesse des Wandels in historischen Spannungsfeldern Nordostafrikas/Westasiens, ed. Walter Bisang, Thomas Bierschenk, Detlev Kreikenbom und Ursula Verhoeven., 241-255..Würzburg: Ergon Verlag., 2005. eScholarID:3b3866
• Matras, Y. "Die Sprache der Roma: ein historischer Umriss (The Romani language: An historical overview)." In Sinti, Roma, Gypsies, ed. Matras, Y., Winterberg, Hans, Zimmermann, Michael. eds., 231 - 261. Berlin: Metropol, 2004. eScholarID:3b1588
• Matras, Y. "The role of language in mystifying and de-mystifying Gypsy identity." In The role of the Romanies, ed. Saul, N. & Tebbut, S. eds., 53 - 78. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2004. eScholarID:3b1589
• Matras, Y. "Typology, dialectology and the structure of complementation in Romani." In Dialectology meets typology, ed. Kortmann, Bernd. ed., 277 - 304. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. eScholarID:3b1587
• Matras, Y. "Defining typical features of minor languages (with special reference to Domari)." In Minor Languages. Approaches, definitions, controversies, ed. Sherzer, Joel & Stolz, 1 - 14.Bochum: Brokmeyer, 2003. eScholarID:3b1590
• Matras, Y., Peter Bakker. "Mixed languages: re-examining the structural prototype." In The Mixed Language Debate. Theoretical and Empirical Advances, ed. Bakker, P. & Matras, Y., 151-176. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. eScholarID:3b1450
• Matras, Y. "Kurmanji complementation. Semantic-typological aspects in an areal perspective." In Kurdish Linguistics. Special issue of Language Typology and Universals (STUF), ed. Haig, G. & Matras, Y, 49 - 63.2002. eScholarID:3b1591
• Matras, Y. "Language contact." In Handbook of Pragmatics, ed. Verschueren, J. et al, 1 - 14. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001. eScholarID:3b1592
• Haig, Geoffrey & Matras, Y. "The state of Kurdish linguistics." In Kurdish Linguistics. Special issue of Language Typology and Universals (STUF), ed. Haig, Geoffrey & Matras, Y., 3-14.2001. eScholarID:129527
• Matras, Y. "How predictable is contact-induced change in grammar?." In Time depth in historical linguistics, 563 - 583.McDonald Foundation, 2000. eScholarID:3b1593
• Matras, Y. "Migrations and `replacive convergence? as sources of diversity in the dialects of Romani." In Dialect and migration in a changing Europe, 173 - 194.Peter Lang, 2000. eScholarID:3b1594
• Matras, Y. "The functional and structural composition of Romani demonstratives." In Grammatical relations in Romani: the noun phrase, 95 - 122.John Benjamins, 2000. eScholarID:3b1595
• Matras, Y. "Sprachplanung und Spracheinstellung im Romanes." In Die Sprache der Roma, 95 - 111.1999. eScholarID:3b1596
• Matras, Y. "Convergent development, grammaticalization, and the problem of ‘mutual isomorphism’." In Sprache in Raum und Zeit, 89 - 103.1998. eScholarID:3b1598
• Matras, Y. "Para-Romani revisited." In The Romani element in non-standard speech, 1 - 27.Harrassowitz, 1998. eScholarID:3b1599
• Matras, Yaron. "The Romani element in Jenisch and Rotwelsch." In The Romani element in non-standard speech, ed. Matras, Yaron., 193-230. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998. eScholarID:135596
• Matras, Y. "The development of the Romani civil rights movement in Germany 1945-1996." In Sinti and Roma in German-speaking society and literature, 49 - 63.Berghahn, 1998. eScholarID:3b1597
• Matras, Y. "Introduction." In The typology and dialectology of Romani, 1 - 31.John Benjamins, 1997. eScholarID:3b1604
• Matras, Y. "Probleme und Chancen der Verschriftung der Sprache der Roma und Sinti." In Sprachen werden Schrift. Mündlichkeit, Schriftlichkeit, Mehrsprachigkeit, 110 - 116.1997. eScholarID:3b1602
• Matras, Y. "The function and typology of coordinating conjunctions: evidence from discourse and language-contact situations." In Discourse Pragmatics in Functional Grammar, 177 - 191.Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. eScholarID:3b1600
• Matras, Y. "The typology of case and case layer distribution in Romani." In The typology and dialectology of Romani, 61 - 94.John Benjamins, 1997. eScholarID:3b1603
• Matras, Y. "Zur stilistischen Funktion der Sondersprache Lekoudesch in südwestdeutschen Erzählungen. (The stylistic function of the special language Lekoudesch in narratives in southwest German dialect)." In Syntax und Stilistik der Alltagssprache, 97 - 106.Niemeyer, 1997. eScholarID:3b1601
• Matras, Y. "Sondersprachliche Hebraismen. Am Beispiel der südwestdeutschen Viehhändlersprache." In Sondersprachen: Rotwelschdialekte, 43 - 58.Harrassowitz, 1996. eScholarID:3b1605
• Matras, Y. "Connective (VS) word order in Romani." In VS-order and theticity in European languages. (Special issue of Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 48-1/2), ed. Matras, Yaron and Hans-Jürgen Sasse., . Berlin: Akademie, 1995. eScholarID:129464
• Matras, Y. "Verb evidentials and their discourse function in Vlach Romani narratives." In Romani in contact. The history, structure and sociology of a language, 95 - 123.John Benjamins, 1995. eScholarID:3b1606
• Matras, Y. "Structural Balkanisms in Romani." In Sprachlicher Standard und Substandard in Südosteuropa und Osteuropa, 195 - 210.Harrassowitz, 1994. eScholarID:3b1607
• Matras, Y. "Chapters on Consonant Features und Morphology." In Die Fränkisch-Alemannische Sprachgrenze, 77 - 93.Niemeyer, 1992. eScholarID:3b1608
• Matras, Y. "Standardization beyond the state: The cases of Yiddish, Kurdish and Romani." In Standardization of national languages, 103 - 123.1991. eScholarID:3b1610
• Matras, Y. "Lekoudesch: Die Sprache als Erinnerung." 73 - 85.1988. eScholarID:3b1609
• Matras, Y. "A contrast language? Re-examining linguistic hybridity in Romani." In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Romani Linguistics, ed. Elsik, Viktor., Munich: Lincom., eScholarID:3b3860

Journal article

• Matras, Yaron; Gardner, Hazel; Jones, Charlotte; Schulman, Veronica. "Angloromani: A different kind of language?" Anthropological Linguistics 49-2(2007) : 142-164. eScholarID:1b7009
• Matras, Y., Jeanette Sakel. "Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence." Studies in Language 31(2007) : 829-865. eScholarID:1b5475
• Matras, Y., Leora Schiff. "Spoken Israeli Hebrew revisited: Structures and variation." Studia Semitica. Journal of Semitic Studies Jubilee Volume 16(2005) : 145-193. eScholarID:1b10661
• Matras, Y. "Layers of convergent syntax in Macedonian Turkish." Mediterranean Language Review 15(2004) : 63-86. eScholarID:1b2859
• Matras, Y. "Romacilikanes: The Romani dialect of Parakalamos." Romani Studies 14-1(2004) : 59 - 109. eScholarID:1b2843
• Matras, Y. "Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani." Language Typology and Universals (STUF) 53-4(2001) : 162 - 180. eScholarID:1b2844
• Matras, Y. "Back to motivations: between discourse and grammar. Reply to peer commentaries." Bilingualism: Language & Cognition 3-2(2000) : 126 - 129. eScholarID:1b2845
• Matras, Y. "Fusion and the cognitive basis for bilingual discourse markers." International Journal of Bilingualism 4-4(2000) : 505 - 528. eScholarID:1b1723
• Matras, Y. "Mixed languages: A functional-communicative approach." Bilingualism, Language & Cognition 3-2(2000) : 79 - 99. eScholarID:1b1722
• Matras, Y. "Romani migrations in the post-communist era: their historical and political significance." Cambridge Review of International Affairs 12-2(2000) : 32 - 50. eScholarID:1b2847
• Matras, Y. "Two Domari legends about the origin of the Doms." Romani Studies 5-10(2000) : 53 - 79. eScholarID:1b2846
• Matras, Y. "Johann Rüdiger and the study of Romani in 18th century Germany." Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 5-9(1999) : 89 - 116. eScholarID:1b2850
• Matras, Y. "Rüdiger’s contribution to the study of Romani origins." Romano Dzaniben 6(1999) : 80 - 103. eScholarID:1b2852
• Matras, Y. "Subject clitics in Sinti." Acta Linguistica Hungarica 46(1999) : 147 - 168. eScholarID:1b2849
• Matras, Y. "The speech of the Polska Roma. Some highlighted features and their implications for Romani dialectology." Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 5-9(1999) : 1 - 28. eScholarID:1b2848
• Matras, Y. "The state of present-day Domari in Jerusalem." Mediterranean Language Review 11(1999) : 1 - 58. eScholarID:1b1721
• Matras, Y. "Writing Romani: The pragmatics of codification in a stateless language." Applied Linguistics 20-4(1999) : 481 - 502. eScholarID:1b1720
• Matras, Y. "s/h alternation in Romani: An historical and functional interpretation." Grazer Linguistische Studien 51(1999) : 99 - 129. eScholarID:1b2851
• Matras, Y. "Deixis and deictic oppositions in discourse: evidence from Romani." Journal of Pragmatics 29-4(1998) : 393 - 428. eScholarID:1b1718
• Matras, Y. "Utterance modifiers and universals of grammatical borrowing." Linguistics 36-2(1998) : 281 - 331. eScholarID:1b1719
• Matras, Y. "Clause combining, ergativity, and coreferent deletion in Kurmanji." Studies in Language 21-3(1997) : 613 - 653. eScholarID:1b1717
• Matras, Y. "Schriftliche Lehrmittel in Romanes: ein Beispiel von Sprachplanung in einer Minderheiten-sprache." Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie 54(1997) : 165 - 191. eScholarID:1b2853
• Matras, Y. "Prozedurale Fusion: Grammatische Interferenzschichten im Romanes." Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 49-1(1996) : 60 - 78. eScholarID:1b2854
• Matras, Y. "Ergativity in Kurmanji." Orientalia Suecana XLI-XLII(1992) : 139 - 154. eScholarID:1b2855
• Matras, Y. "Zur Rekonstruktion des jüdisch-deutschen Wortschatzes in den Mundarten ehemaliger "Judendörfer" in Südwestdeutschland." Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 58-3(1991) : 267 - 293. eScholarID:1b2856

Conference contribution

• Matras, Yaron. 2010. Migrations and their impact on the Romani political movement in the early 1990s. In Romani migrations and refugees. Oxford University. eScholarID:135607
• Matras, Yaron. 2009. Yiddish as a repertoire. In Yiddish Linguistics01 December 2009 - 02 December 2009. University of Regensburg. eScholarID:135608

Working paper

• Matras, Y. "Ergativity in Kurmanji (Kurdish). Notes on its use and distribution." Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit(1988) . eScholarID:129529
• Matras, Y. "Lekoudesch: Integration jiddischer Wörter in die Mundart von Rexingen bei Horb. Mit vergleichbarem Material aus Buttenhausen bei Münsingen." Arbeiten zur Mehrsprachigkeit(1988) . eScholarID:129523

Report

• Matras, Yaron; Beluschi-Fabeni, Giuseppe; Leggio, D. Viktor; Vranova, Eliska. 2009. The Romani community of Gorton South. Manchester: eScholarID:135606
• Matras, Y. 1998. The recent emigration of Roma from the Czech and Slovak Republics. eScholarID:5b41
• Matras, Y. 1996. Problems arising with the international mobility of the Roma (Gypsies) in Europe. eScholarID:5b42

Other

• Kurdish Dialects Websitehttp://kurdish.humanities.manchester.ac.uk.
• Online Archive of Endangered and Smaller Languages. http://languagecontact.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/ELA/.
• Matras, Y., Schubert, C., Gardner, H., Schulman, V., & Christopher White Angloromani dictionary. http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/angloromani.
• Online database of Romani dialects. http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/rms.
• Romani Soundbites: The story behind Romani words. Audio-CD, 60 mins (With Charlotte Jones, Hazel Gardner.).
• Educational DVD-ROM: ‘The Romani language: An interactive journey’.
• Language Contact Website http://languagecontact.humanities.manchester.ac.uk.
• Romani Linguistics Page http://romani.humanities.manchester.ac.uk.
• Matras, Y. Zwischen ‘Helfern’ und ‘Patienten’. Über herrschende Mehrheit und nationale Minderheit. Political essays. 1989.