Yaron Matras

School of Arts, Languages & Cultures
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL, UK
yaron.matras@manchester.ac.uk

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For further information about my research interests, academic biography and current projects, research supervision, teaching, and book publications please consult my personal university staff page.

• Australian Radio interview about the ‘secret language’ Lekoudesch, December 2007
• Podcast of keynote presentation on ‘Migrations and their impact on the Romani political movement in the early 1990s at the conference on Romani Mobilities in Europe, Oxford University, January 2010
• Interview with Angelika Herta about the Romani language, September 2011 (Link to Talking Letters)

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Matras, Yaron. 2011. Universals of structural borrowing. In: Siemund, Peter. ed. Linguistic universals and language variation. Berlin: Mouton. Matras, Yaron. 200-229.

Matras, Yaron. 2011. Grammaticalisation and language contact. In: Narrog, Heiko, & Heine, Bernd. Handbook of grammaticalisation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 279-290.

Matras, Yaron. 2011. Explaining convergence and the formation of linguistic areas. In: Hieda, Osamu, König, Christa, & Nakagawa, Hirosi. eds. Geographical typology and linguistic areas. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 143-160.

Matras, Yaron. 2010. Contact, convergence and typology. In: Hickey, Raymond. ed. Handbook of Language Contact. Oxford: Blackwell. 66-85.

Matras, Yaron. 2009. Defining the limits of grammatical borrowing. In: Marcantonio, Angela. ed. The Indo-European language family: Questions about its status (Monograph series n. 55 of Journal of Indo-European Studies). 11-25.

Matras, Yaron. 2008. Defining ‘Everyday Multilingualism’. Keynote address at the opening event of the UNESCO Year of Languages, Eisenstadt, Austria, June 2008.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. A grammatical sketch of Domari. In print as: Matras, Y. 2011. Domari. In: Tatiana I. Oranskaia, Yulia V. Mazurova, Andrej A. Kibrik, Leonid I. Kulikov, Aleksandr Y. Rusakov. eds. Languages of the world. New Indo-Aryan languages. Moscow: Academia. 775-811.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. with Jeanette Sakel. Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence. Studies in Language 31, 829-865.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. The borrowability of grammatical categories. In: Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds. Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. 31-74.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. Grammatical borrowing in Domari. In: Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds. Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. 151-164.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. with Şirin Tufan. Grammatical borrowing in Macedonian Turkish. In: Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds. Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. 215-227.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. with Maryam Shabibi. Grammatical borrowing in Khuzistani Arabic. In: Matras, Y. & Sakel, J. eds. Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective. 134-149.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. with Hazel Gardner, Charlotte Jones, Veronica Schulman. Angloromani: A different kind of language? Anthropological Linguistics 49-2, 142-164.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. Contact, connectivity and language evolution. In: Rehbein, Jochen, Hohenstein, Christiane & Pietsch, Lukas. eds. Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 51-74.

Matras, Yaron. 2007. The challenges of language codification in a transnational context. In: Molinelli, Piera, with Giuliano Bernini, Pierluigi Cuzzolin, Ada Valentini. Eds. Standard e non standard tra scelta e norma. Atti del XXX congresso della Società Italiana di Glottologia. Roma: Il Calamo. 43-54.

Matras, Yaron. 2005. The classification of Romani dialects: A geographic-historical perspective. In: Halwachs, D. & Schrammel, Barbara, eds. General and applied Romani linguistics. Munich: Lincom Europa. 7-26.

Matras, Yaron. 2005. The future of Romani: Toward a policy of linguistic pluralism. Roma Rights Quarterly 1:31-44.

Matras, Yaron. 2005. The status of Romani in Europe. Report commissioned by the Council of Europe’s Language policy Division, October 2005.

Matras, Yaron. 2005. Language contact, language endangerment, and the role of the ‘salvation linguist’. In: Austin, Peter K. ed. Language documentation and description, Volume 3. London: Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project. 225-251.

Matras, Yaron. 2005. with Leora Schiff. Spoken Israeli Hebrew revisited: Structures and variation. In: Studia Semitica. Journal of Semitic Studies Jubilee Volume. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 16, 145-193.

Matras, Yaron. 2004. Romacilikanes: The Romani dialect of Parakalamos. Romani Studies 14-1: 59-109.

Matras, Yaron. 2004. The role of language in mystifying and de-mystifying Gypsy identity. In: Saul, N. & Tebbut, S. eds. The role of the Romanies. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press. 53-78.

Matras, Yaron. 2004. A conflict of paradigms. Review article of Barany, Zoltan. The East-European Gypsies; and Hancock, Ian. We are the Rromani people. Romani Studies 14-2: 193-209.

Matras, Yaron. 2002. Kurmanji complementation. Semantic-typological aspects in an areal perspective. In: Haig, Geoffrey & Matras, Y. eds.. Kurdish Linguistics. Special issue of Language Typology and Universals (STUF) 54-3, 49-63.

Matras, Yaron. 2001. Tense, aspect, and modality categories in Romani. Language Typology and Universals (STUF) 53-4, 162-180.

Matras, Yaron. 2000. Romani migrations in the post-communist era: their historical and political significance. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 12-2, 32-50.

Matras, Yaron. 2000. Two Domari legends about the origin of the Doms. Romani Studies, 5th series, 10, 53-79.

Matras, Yaron. 2000. Mixed languages: A functional-communicative approach. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition 3-2, 79-99.

Matras, Yaron. 2000. Fusion and the cognitive basis for bilingual discourse markers. International Journal of Bilingualism. 4:4. 505-528.

Matras, Yaron. 1999. Writing Romani: The pragmatics of codification in a stateless language. Applied Linguistics 20-4, 481-502.

Matras, Yaron. 1999. Subject clitics in Sinti. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 46, 147-168.

Matras, Yaron. 1999. The state of present-day Domari in Jerusalem. Mediterranean Language Review 11, 1-58.

Matras, Yaron. 1998. Utterance modifiers and universals of grammatical borrowing. Linguistics 36-2, 281-331.

Matras, Yaron. 1998. Deixis and deictic oppositions in discourse: evidence from Romani. Journal of Pragmatics 29-4, 393-428.

Matras, Yaron. 1998. The development of the Romani civil rights movement in Germany 1945-1996. In: Tebbutt, Susan (ed.) Sinti and Roma in German-speaking society and literature. Oxford/Providence: Berghahn. 49-63.

Matras, Yaron. 1997. Clause combining, ergativity, and coreferent deletion in Kurmanji. Studies in Language 21:3, 613-653.

Matras, Yaron. 1991. With Gertrud Reershemius. Standardization beyond the State: The case of Yiddish, Kurdish and Romani.In: von Gleich, U. & E. Wolff. eds. Standardization of national languages. Hamburg: UNESCO-Institut für Pädagogik. 103-123.