Yaron Matras


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 and on Romani in Britain: The afterlife of a language, and A Grammar of Domari. Matras organized the First International Conference on Romani Linguistics in 1993, and has served as Editor of the cross-disciplinary journal since 1999. He has coordinated the at the University of Manchester since 1999, and in 2010 he launched the project. His publications include a book on Language Contact and a co-edited trilogy on Mixed Languages, Linguistic Areas, and Grammatical Borrowing.
In 2012 Yaron Matras was awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.