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Against the backround of the expressions for case in European Romani dialects in general, the article reviews recent developments in Bulgarian Romani dialects. Romani displays both infectional forms and analytic means for the expression of case. Although there is a tendency of replacing infectional forms by analytic ones, the infectional forms have remained unchanged. On the other side we establish a lot of innovations within the system of analytic case expression. The same preposition replacing the "locative" in both its functions (place and direction) is used for expressing the dative, and even the genitive case. This levelling of the analytic case expressions seems to be triggered by the contact language. Finally, some irregularities in the government of prepositions are considered that provide further evidence with respect to ongoing changes in the case system or Bulgarian Romani dialects.
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Igla, B. Disturbances and Innovations in the Case System in Bulgarian Romani Dialects. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 46, 201–214 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009649823302
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