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Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic Story

Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic Story

Singh, Rajendra

Hardcover

Series: American University Studies, Book 31

English as a Second LanguageHindiMiscellaneous Languages

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ISBN10: 0820426873
ISBN13: 9780820426877
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 1 1995
Pages: 154
Language: English
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.

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