Yaron Matras

Yaron Matras (born October 24, 1963 in Chicago ) is an American linguist specializing in Romani .

Life

Yaron Matras studied linguistics and Arabic at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and comparative literature and German at the University of Tübingen . He specialized in Kurdish and in studies on the Roma . He received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg . He worked part-time in science at the University of Hamburg and as press spokesman for the Rome and Cinti Union . In 1995 he got a position at the University of Manchester , where he has been researching and teaching ever since.

Matras is co-editor of the journal Romani Studies . At Mouton de Gruyter he publishes the research series Language Contact and Bilingualism and, as co-editor, the Empirical Approaches to Language Typology .

Fonts (selection)

• I met lucky people: The story of the Romani Gypsies . Allen Lane, 2014
• A Grammar of Domari . Mouton de Gruyter, 2012
• Romani in Britain: The afterlife of a language . Edinburgh University Press, 2010
• Language contact . Cambridge University Press, 2009
• with Jeanette Sakel (Ed.): Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective . Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007
• with Viktor Elšík: Markedness and language change: the Romani sample. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-11-018452-4 . (= Empirical approaches to language typology, 32)
• with Hans Winterberg, Michael Zimmermann : Sinti, Roma, Gypsies. Language, history, present . Berlin: Metropol, 2003, ISBN 3-936411-26-3
• Romani: A linguistic introduction . Cambridge University Press, 2002
• The Development of the Romani Civil Rights Movement in Germany 1945-1996 , in: Susan Tebbutt (Hrsg.): Sinti and Roma in German-speaking society and literature . (Research on literary and cultural history; 72). Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2001, pp. 49-63
• (Ed.): The Romani element in non-standard speech . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998

Contributions

• The Role of Language in Mystifying and Demystifying Gypsy Identity . In: Nicholas Saul, Susan Tebbutt: The Role of the Romanies: Images and Counter-images of "Gypsies" / Romanies in European Cultures . Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2004, ISBN 978-0-85323-679-5
• Two Domari legends about the origins of the Doms. (PDF; 131 kB) In: Romani Studies . 5, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2000, pp. 49-75
• The state of present-day Domari in Jerusalem . (PDF 672 kB) In: Mediterranean Language Review . 11, 1999, pp. 1-58

Web links

• Literature by and about Yaron Matras in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Yaron Matras in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Yaron Matras , at Manchester University