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1.1 Gypsies and Travellers in Britain 1.1 Gypsies and Travellers in Britain
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1.2 Language contact, language change and dialects 1.2 Language contact, language change and dialects
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1.3 ‘Mixed’ Romani dialects and Para-Romani 1.3 ‘Mixed’ Romani dialects and Para-Romani
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1.4 Creoles and pidgins 1.4 Creoles and pidgins
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1.5 Mixed languages 1.5 Mixed languages
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1.6 In-group lexicons, argots and ‘secret’ languages 1.6 In-group lexicons, argots and ‘secret’ languages
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1.7 Language shift and language loss 1.7 Language shift and language loss
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1.8 Towards an integrated scenario: The functional turnover model 1.8 Towards an integrated scenario: The functional turnover model
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1 Angloromani: A Different Kind of Language?
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Published:October 2010
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This chapter explores the question of ‘languageness’ in connection with the Angloromani lexicon. The story of Angloromani begins with the arrival of the Roms. The chapter then investigates a number of scenarios that account for the mixed structural profile of Angloromani. Angloromani seems to contradict the creole stereotype of a complete absence of grammatical inflection, showing English inflection wherever it is required. Some Romani dialects reveal evidence that the language was employed for the exclusion of bystanders. It is noted that mixed languages may arise in situations of competition between languages, in which the winner does not take it all, but does take the predication. In the British context, speaking ‘Romanes’ has accepted the meaning of adopting a particular attitude to English sentence formation along with the tendency to enrich it, at the user's discretion, with word forms belonging to a special linguistic repertoire not shared by group-outsiders.
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