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LINGUISTIC THEORY, LANGUAGE CONTACT, AND MODERN HINDUSTANI
THE THREE SIDES OF A LINGUISTIC STORY |
| By: |
Rajendra Singh |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£27.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820426873 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820426877 |
| Publisher: |
PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 1995 |
| Series: |
American University Studies, Series 13: Linguistics 31 |
| Pages: |
154 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |