This book raises some important questions about formal linguistics and functionalist sociolinguistics when they encompass the same subject matter, linguistic borrowing and code-switching/mixing. These questions arise in the context of formalist and functionalist accounts of language contact and are tested here against some interesting Hindustani-English contact facts from India. The test reveals what these paradigms contribute to our understanding of language contact (and language in general) and precisely where they seem to go wrong.
| ISBN: | 9780820426877 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 1995 |
| Author: | Rajendra Singh |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 153 pages |
| Series: | American University Studies. |
| Genres: |
Sociolinguistics Phonetics, phonology Grammar, syntax and morphology Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
This book raises some important questions about formal linguistics and functionalist sociolinguistics when they encompass the same subject matter, linguistic borrowing and code-switching/mixing. These questions arise in the context of formalist and functionalist accounts of language contact and are tested here against some interesting Hindustani-English contact facts from India.
Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani features in the following genres: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani was written by Rajendra Singh and published by P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
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