ROMANI IN CONTACT THE HISTORY, STRUCTURE AND SOCIOLOGY OF A LANGUAGE -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- ON TYPOLOGICAL CHANGES AND STRUCTURAL BORROWING IN THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN ROMANI -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Formation of the future tense -- 2. Formation of the imperfect and conditional -- 3. Perfect -- 4. Formation of the passive -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ON THE MIGRATION AND AFFILITION OF THE DŌMBA:IRANIAN WORDS IN ROM, LOM AND DOM GYPSY -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Traditional classifications of the Gypsy languages -- 2. The languages -- 3. Iranian items in the language -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PLAGIARISM AND LEXICAL ORPHANS IN THE EUROPEAN ROMANI LEXICON -- 0. Introduction -- 1. General principles of plagiarism and the dissemination ofspurious data -- 2. Artificial indianising in Romani lexica -- 3. Sample cases of plagiarism in European Romani dialects -- 4. Lexical orphans in European Romani -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INTERDIALECTAL INTERFERENCE IN ROMANI -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Problems with the identification of the dialects -- 2. Interference phenomena -- 3. Conclusion, -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- VERB EVIDENTIALS AND THEIR DISCOURSE FUNCTIONIN VLACH ROMANI NARRATIVES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Through ergativity to evidentiality -- 2. Explicit knowledge vs. situative evidence -- 3. Virtual evidence -- 4. Figurative evidence -- 5. Contextual evidence -- 6. Planning the discourse -- 7. Reformulating interactional evidence -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- NOTES ON THE GENESIS OF CALÓ AND OTHERIBERIAN PARA-ROMANI VARIETIES -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Para-Romani languages -- 2. Gypsies in the Iberian peninsula.

3. Lexical classification of Iberian Romani among Romanidialects -- 4. Some Romani and Spanish derived features -- 5. The four Iberian Para-Romani languages -- 6. Social functions of Caló -- 7. The oldest sources of Iberian Romani -- 8. The genesis of Caló -- 9. Conclusions -- NOTES -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- REFERENCES -- ROMANI LEXICAL ITEMS IN COLLOQUIAL ROMANIAN -- 0. Introduction -- 1. The status of Romani in related literature -- 2. Sociolinguistic remarks -- 3. Methods -- 4. Lexical adoptions from Romani -- 5. Results and conclusions -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ROMANI STANDARDIZATION AND STATUSIN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Macedonia, standardization efforts, and Romani -- 2. The Macedonian Romani Standardization Conference of 1992 -- 3. The 1992 Romani Standardization Document: text andcommentary -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- TRIAL AND ERROR IN WRITTEN ROMANION THE PAGES OF ROMANI PERIODICALS -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Romani groups and dialects in the Czech and Slovak Republics -- 2. Historical background: Assimilation policy under the communist government -- 3. Changes after the "velvet revolution " of November 1989 -- 4. Main principles of the SCR orthography -- 5. Calquing and structural changes due to interference of Czech -- 6. Neologisms - coinage of new expressions -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS.