Romani (Kalderash)
WALS coordinates: 45° N, 21° E
spoken in Serbia and Montenegro
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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| Routledge: | |
| Other: |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Nominal Categories | ||
| Number of Cases | 6-7 cases | |
| Asymmetrical Case-Marking | Symmetrical | |
| Ordinal Numerals | First/one-th, two-th, three-th | |
| Nominal Syntax | ||
| Noun Phrase Conjunction | 'And' different from 'with' | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| The Morphological Imperative | Second singular | |
| The Prohibitive | Normal imperative + special negative | |
| Situational Possibility | Verbal constructions | |
| Epistemic Possibility | Verbal constructions | |
| Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking | Overlap for either possibility or necessity | |
| Simple Clauses | ||
| Predicative Adjectives | Nonverbal encoding | |
| Nominal and Locational Predication | Identical | |
| Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals | Impossible | |
| Lexicon | ||
| Tea | Others | |
