Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Spelling and Glossing Conventions -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1 Scandoromani: Language and Speakers -- 1.1. Background -- 1.1.1. The Various Groups of Travellers and Roma in Scandinavia -- 1.1.2. The Scandoroma: Language, Culture, and Identity -- 1.2. Scandoromani: A Mixed Language -- 1.2.1. Introduction -- 1.2.2. Earlier Sources of Scandoromani -- 1.2.3. What Is a 'Real' Language? On Broken Variants and In-Group Lexicons -- 1.2.4. Influence on Scandinavian -- 1.3. Structure and Position of Scandoromani -- 1.3.1. Mixture Patterns -- 1.3.2. Placing Scandoromani in the Northwestern Romani Continuum -- Chapter 2 The Sounds of a Mixed Language -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.1.1. Speakers and Available Recordings -- 2.1.2. Allophonic Variation, Minimal Pairs, and the Phoneme Inventory -- 2.2. Methods and Materials -- 2.3. The Vowel System -- 2.3.1. Swedish -- 2.3.2. Swedish Romani -- 2.4. The Consonant System -- 2.4.1. The Core System of Equivalent Swedish Consonants -- 2.4.2. The Bilabial Approximant [w] -- 2.4.3. Affricates -- 2.4.4. The Voiceless Post-Alveolar Fricatives -- 2.4.5. Stops and Aspiration -- 2.5. Word-level Prosody -- 2.5.1. Lexical Stress -- 2.5.2. Quantity -- 2.5.3. Lexical Pitch Accents -- 2.6. Patterns of Allophonic Variation -- 2.7. Phonological Complexity -- 2.8. Historical Background -- Chapter 3 The Interdependence of Adaptation, Derivation, and Inflection in a Mixed Morphology -- 3.1. General Remarks -- 3.2. Nominal Morphology -- 3.2.1. Basic Principles -- 3.2.2. Nominal Inflection -- 3.2.3. Derivational and Loan Word Adaptational Morphology -- 3.3. Verb Morphology -- 3.3.1. Background -- 3.3.2. Inflectional Morphology -- 3.3.3. Derivational Morphology -- 3.4. The Emergence of a Mixed Morphology.

3.4.1. Development of a New Morphology: Innovation and Structural Memory -- 3.4.2. Strategies for Adaptation of Loan Words -- 3.4.3. Attributes of a Mixed Morphology: Lexical Manipulation, Heavy Morphology, and the Anti-Zipfian Effect -- Chapter 4 Outline of a Syntax -- 4.1. Use of Unmarked Verbal Form -- 4.2. Subject Place-Holder Omission -- 4.3. Verbal Place-Holder Omission -- 4.4. Relative Pronoun Deletion -- 4.5. Patterns of Code-Mixing in Free, Narrative and Written Speech -- 4.6. Samples of Speech -- 4.6.1. Frog Story -- 4.6.2. Story About a Fight -- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Support for an Autonomous Model -- Appendix I Vocabulary -- Appendix II Texts -- II.1 Trin phralarna -- II.2 Lollohubb -- References -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index.