Yaron MATRAS is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. His research interests include contact linguistics, urban multilingualism, typology, and language documentation. He has worked on dialects of Romani, German, Kurdish, and other languages, and is the founder of the Multilingual Manchester research unit. His publications include Romani: A linguistic introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Romani in Britain: The afterlife of a language (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Language Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2009/2020) and A grammar of Domari (De Gruyter Mouton, 2012).