| Reflexes of the Old Indic neuter gender in Romani [In Russian with English summary] |
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| Mikhail Oslon (Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), neoakut@gmail.com) |
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| Journal of Language Relationship, № 8, 2012 - p.93-102 |
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| Abstract: It is shown that the neuter gender inhertited from Old Indic was not completely lost in Romani. It is still presereved in the nom.pl. ending á of the sinchronically masculine nouns, whereas the originally masculine nouns form their nom.pl. with the previously unexplained zero-ending (in the Calderash dialect). |
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| Keywords: Romani, Old Indic, linguistic reconstruction, historical morphology |
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