TALK by Eminent linguist Professor Yaron Matras at British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 2:30pm on 28th January 2016

Time : 2:30 pm Add to Calendar 28/01/2016 14:30 28/01/2016 16:00 Asia/Kolkata TALK by Eminent linguist Professor Yaron Matras Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/01/talk-by-eminent-linguist-professor.html British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY

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Venue : British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : The British Council in collaboration with IISER Pune presents a lecture by Eminent linguist Professor Yaron Matras.

As part of the lecture series of eminent writers, scholars and historians of science from the UK.

Yaron Matras is a linguist at the University of Manchester specializing in Romani and other languages, including Middle Eastern languages. He is one of the most prominent English-language Romani linguists and the author of several pioneering studies, including a book on 'Romani: A linguistic introduction' (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and on 'Romani in Britain: The afterlife of a language' (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and a Grammar of Domari (De Gruyter Mouton, 2012). 

Matras organized the First International Conference on Romani Linguistics in 1993, and has served as Editor of the cross-disciplinary journal Romani Studies since 1999. He has coordinated the Romani Project at the University of Manchester since 1999, and in 2010 he launched the Multilingual Manchester project. His publications include a book on Language Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and a co-edited trilogy on Mixed Languages, Linguistic Areas, and Grammatical Borrowing.

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