Yaron Matras is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Manchester. He has published numerous articles in academic journals on various aspects of language contact, linguistic typology, descriptive linguistics and sociolinguistics of Kurdish, Domari, Turkish, German dialects, and other languages. He has also published extensively on Romani, including the monograph Untersuchungen zu Grammatik und Diskurs des Romanes (Dialekt der Kelderasha/Lovara).
