Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic StoryThis 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. |
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| Title | Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic Story American University Studies Volume 31 of American university studies: Linguistics, ISSN 0740-4557 |
| Author | Rajendra Singh |
| Publisher | P. Lang, 1995 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0820426873, 9780820426877 |
| Length | 153 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
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