| Linguistic Theory, Language Contact, and Modern Hindustani: The Three Sides of a Linguistic Story Contributor(s): Singh, Rajendra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820426873 ISBN-13: 9780820426877 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Hindi - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Foreign Language Study | Miscellaneous |
| Dewey: 491.431 |
| LCCN: 96049835 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |